Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Vivek Mehra is a partner at August Capital. Mehra invests broadly in IT infrastructure and areas of interest including security, storage, cloud computing and SaaS. Prior to joining August Capital, he co-founded Cobalt Networks. As chief technology officer and vice president of product development, Mehra built the first successful server appliance and grew Cobalt into a worldwide leader in the category, culminating in a successful IPO and acquisition by Sun Microsystems for $2 billion. At Sun, he served as the vice president and general manager of the Cobalt Business Unit and served as a member of Sun’s Technical Architecture Council.

Prior to founding Cobalt, Mehra held a number of technical and management positions at Apple, SGI, and Digital Equipment Corporation. Current investments include DotNetNuke, Mavenir Systems, RetailNext, Tegile Systems and Virsto Software. Prior investments include Reconnex (acquired by McAfee), Encentuate (IBM), NeoPath Networks (Cisco), PulseCore Semiconductor (ON Semiconductor), PacketTrap Networks (Quest Software), Mimosa (Iron Mountain), Iridigm (Qualcomm), NetFish (Iona) and Octane Software (Epiphany).

Mehra was an advisor to Perfigo (Cisco) and served on the board of Net6 (Citrix).