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Investor profile

Tej Kanani

Investor, Sierra Ventures

About

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.

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Investment focus

Stages
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Sectors
Enterprise
SaaS
AI
Devtools

Investment details

Avg check size$500K - $15M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
USA