BlueRun Ventures Strengthens Executive Team: Welcomes Vasudev Bhandarkar as a Venture Partner.MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif. -- BlueRun Ventures (www.brv.com), a global venture capital fund focused on early stage companies in the IT, mobile, and consumer electronics markets, today announced that it has named Vasudev "Vas" Bhandarkar as a Venture Partner. With over 22 years of experience in marketing, business development, sales, product development and general management, Bhandarkar will bring to bear his operational expertise to BlueRun Ventures' hands-on development of early stage technology companies. "Vas' extensive experience augmenting early-stage companies compliments the goals of BlueRun Ventures as the capital fund that builds emerging market leaders," said John Malloy, Managing Partner of BlueRun Ventures. "We are delighted to add Vas' market knowledge, insight in technology and passion to build great companies to our global team." As a venture partner, Bhandarkar will bring his broad experience in marketing, sales and business strategy globally to the early-stage IT, consumer Internet and wireless companies that BlueRun Ventures adds to its portfolio. "Having established itself as the premiere venture capital fund for the best in IT, mobile and consumer technology markets, BlueRun Ventures shares my passion and determination for entrepreneurship to positively impact and shape the global market," said Vasudev Bhandarkar. "I am pleased to contribute my skills and leadership to our portfolio companies." Over a 12 year period, Bhandarkar founded or was an early employee of four companies of which two went public and two were sold. In that time, he has helped raise over $100 million for his companies and helped build two successful off-shore development facilities in India. Bhandarkar is also actively involved with early-stage incubators in India such as IITBombay's SINE sine: see trigonometry. In a right triangle, the ratio of the side opposite an acute angle (less than 90 degrees) and the hypotenuse. The cosine is the ratio between the adjacent side and the hypotenuse. (Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship), and is a charter member of TiE -- The Indus Entrepreneurs organization which is a global organization with over 40 chapters and 10,000 members. Bhandarkar holds an MS Degree in Physics from IIT IIT - Integrated Information Technology Bombay, MS in Computer Science from Colorado State University Colorado State University, at Fort Collins; land-grant with state and federal support; chartered 1870, opened 1879 as an agricultural college, assumed present name in 1957. There is a veterinary teaching hospital, an agricultural campus, and a research campus. . BlueRun Ventures' proven approach is to invest globally as a single fund in best of breed technologies and teams with the drive and ability to build leading global companies. Over the seven-year history of the firm, BlueRun Ventures has built a global platform, with offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community , and Asia, that has enabled successful global market leaders to emerge. As an early stage fund, BlueRun Ventures will invest mostly in Series A and B, with initial investment ranging from $2 to $8 million. About BlueRun Ventures Launched in 1998, BlueRun Ventures is a leading early stage venture capital fund. BlueRun Ventures' proven approach is to invest globally as a single fund in best of breed technologies and teams with the drive and ability to build leading global companies. BlueRun Ventures is headquartered in Menlo Park, California Menlo Park is a city in San Mateo County, California in the United States of America. It is located at latitude 37°29' North, longitude 122°9' East. Menlo Park had 30,785 inhabitants as of the 2000 U.S. Census. , with offices in Helsinki, Herzelia (Israel), London, New Delhi New Delhi (dĕl`ē), city (1991 pop. 294,149), capital of India and of Delhi state, N central India, on the right bank of the Yamuna River. , Seoul, Shanghai Shanghai (shăng`hī`, shäng`hī`), city (1994 est. pop. 12,980,000), in, but independent of, Jiangsu prov., E China, on the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River where it flows into the Chang (Yangtze) estuary. , Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.brv.com. |
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