Felicis Ventures, a Palo Alto, CA-based venture capital firm, added Aamir Virani as a partner.
Virani has joined Felicis Ventures full-time making new investments and helping engineer success for the firm’s current founder community.
He was the co-founder and previous COO of connected home camera startup Dropcam, a Felicis’ portfolio company which was bought by Alphabet (Google)’s Nest division for $555m in 2014.
Founded in 2006, Felicis Ventures invests in iconic companies reinventing core markets (Credit Karma, Adyen, Greenhouse), as well as creating frontier technologies (Vicarious, Matterport, Pindrop Security). The firm, has exited more than 60 portfolio companies, which have been acquired or gone public, including Fitbit (IPO), Shopify (IPO), Meraki (acquired by Cisco), Twitch (acquired by Amazon).
FinSMEs
03/02/2017