Venky Harinarayan

Bio

Venky Harinarayan is a founding partner of Cambrian Ventures. Prior to founding Cambrian in 2000, Venky was a General Manager at Amazon.com, where working with founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, he helped create Amazon.com's marketplace business. Marketplace today is Amazon.com's most profitable and fastest growing business, accounting for almost 25% of all US transactions. Venky came to Amazon.com in 1998 through the $250 Million acquisition of Junglee, a database technology company that he co-founded. At Junglee, Venky ran an award-winning marketing program and was also responsible for building key strategic relationships. Venky has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Salon.com, India Today, CNET TV and on the cover of Business Week (Intl. Ed.) as well as SiliconIndia. Venky serves as investor, advisor, or board member to several technology start-ups. Venky has a PhD from Stanford University in Computer Science. He has authored multiple technical papers including one which received ACM SIGMOD's best paper award in 1996, and also has multiple patents.