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Sanjay is a founding Partner of JumpStartUp Venture Fund set up in 2000 to invest in early stage, innovative companies that leveraged India. He led investments in Jareva Technologies (acquired by Veritas/Symantec), Netkraft (acquired by Adea Solutions), Aarohi Communications (acquired by Emulex), Hellosoft, and NetDevices. Sanjay has 18 years of industry experience including significant international experience involving new business creation and business development in India, US, Asia, Middle-East and Africa. He has been involved with cross-border international business development, technology development & deployment, sales, and investments since 1991. Prior to founding JumpStartUp, Sanjay founded Neta Inc., a venture capital backed Silicon Valley software startup that was acquired by Infoseek (Disney). He wrote the business plan, was involved in fund-raising, recruitment, developing the competitive market positioning, establishing key strategic partnerships, coordinating beta customer programs, and in its M & A. In 1999, Sanjay returned to India after the acquisition of Neta and founded VentureKatalyst, India's first online publication aimed at entrepreneurs. Before Neta, Sanjay spent many years with Wipro (NYSE:WIT) in their Global R&D and new business development groups in India and the US. At Wipro, he was responsible for creating and driving several pioneering initiatives that resulted in the creation of extremely successful businesses. He also established a "product design lab for hire" in Silicon Valley in 1994 that undertook leading edge turnkey product development and engineering for startups and large companies. In 1996, as part of Wipro's corporate development efforts, he wrote the business plan that led to the creation of a healthcare domain focused IT solutions practice. Earlier, Sanjay was responsible for channel and OEM sales in Africa, Middle-East and the Far East. He started his IT industry career in sales for Wipro in India. | 