Tej Kanani was recognized as one of Business Insider's "Top 29 Gen Z VCs Changing Venture Capital" at age 21 for sourcing multiple stealth early-stage enterprise deals, making him unusually young for institutional venture investing. Before joining Sierra Ventures, he gained corporate venture capital experience at VMware and hands-on operating experience leading deal sourcing and go-to-market efforts at cloud security startup RedLock, which was later acquired by Palo Alto Networks. Tej Kanani was recognized as one of Business Insider's "Top 29 Gen Z VCs Changing Venture Capital" at age 21 for sourcing multiple stealth early-stage enterprise deals, making him unusually young for institutional venture investing. Before joining Sierra Ventures, he gained corporate venture capital experience at VMware and hands-on operating experience leading deal sourcing and go-to-market efforts at cloud security startup RedLock, which was later acquired by Palo Alto Networks.