Devdutt Yellurkar

Manager at KBX Jalgaon

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2019
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
May 2019
Postman is the world’s leading API platform. Postmans features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster. More than 40 million developers and 500,000 organizations across the globe use Postman today. Our customers are doing more and more astounding things with the Postman product every day, and as a result, we are growing rapidly. Check out our open positions if you’d like to learn more: https://www.postman.com/careers/
Board Member
Jan 2019
Build, preview, and deploy dynamic web experiences with performance that scales. Sign up for Gatsby Cloud for free: https://gatsbyjs.com/dashboard/signup
Board Member
Nov 2018
Retailers today face some of the toughest challenges in physical stores — from tracking shopper behavior to optimizing promotions and in-store media. Traditional tools often fall short in delivering real-time, actionable insights. At Standard AI, we solve these challenges by equipping retailers and CPG brands with AI-powered computer vision technology that unlocks real-time insights on promotions, media impact, new product launches, and more. Our VISION platform turns data into actionable insights, helping retailers drive sales, improve store performance, and gain deeper visibility into the shopper journey. Founded in 2017 and backed by leading venture capitalists like Y Combinator, SoftBank, CRV, and EQT Ventures, Standard AI is at the forefront of transforming physical retail with e-commerce level data insights. Partnerships: Google Cloud, AXIS COMMUNICATIONS, and NVIDIA Want to learn more? Visit https://standard.ai or email us at info@standard.ai to see how Standard AI can turn your store into a data-driven powerhouse.
Board Member
Jan 2017
Trusted by more than 500 of the world’s most innovative companies, Aviatrix empowers businesses to accelerate innovation, minimize downtime, and gain control of IT costs. Aviatrix delivers an enterprise-grade secure cloud network, backbone, and edge for mission-critical applications by creating a simplified and consistent networking architecture in and across cloud service providers. Combined with the Aviatrix Certified Engineer (ACE) Program, the industry’s first and only multicloud networking certification, Aviatrix helps businesses to achieve their digital transformation goals.
Board Member
Feb 2015
SignalFx enables real-time cloud monitoring and observability for infrastructure, microservices, and applications by collecting and analyzing metrics and traces across every component in your cloud environment. Built on a massively-scalable streaming architecture, SignalFx applies advanced analytics and data science-directed troubleshooting to let operators find the root cause of issues in seconds. SignalFx was acquired by Splunk in October 2019. With Splunk’s market-leading log analytics technology, SignalFx and Splunk provide the industry’s first enterprise-grade, end-to-end observability platform.
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Sep 2014
Symphony Commerce is the leading provider of Commerce as a Service, with the only cloud platform natively-built to orchestrate commerce across multi-channel storefronts, orders, inventory, and fulfillment orchestration. Built by the visionary and technical team behind Amazon’s ordering and fulfillment systems, Symphony frees brands from the burden of infrastructure management and provides the data and services they need to operate and grow their business. Trusted by mid to enterprise brands in Fashion & Apparel, CPG, and Durables, Symphony is backed by leading investors including Bain Capital Ventures, FirstMark Capital, and Charles River Ventures. Learn more at www.symphonycommerce.com.
Board Member
Jun 2014
Cratejoy is the only all-in-one subscription box solution to help you launch, grow and scale your company. We provide the leading subscription box platform that allows you to launch and grow your business faster and more efficiently - no coding or plug-ins required. We support over 2,500 companies on our platform and over 1 million subscribers on the Cratejoy Marketplace. Founded in 2014, Cratejoy is headquartered in Austin, TX.
Board Member
Dec 2013
Powering the API World. No AI without APIs. Kong enables any company to become an API-first company. Kong’s unified cloud native API platform is easy to use and works in any environment — unleashing developer productivity, automating security, and boosting performance of APIs and microservices at scale.
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Jun 2013
Accompany was acquired by Cisco Systems in May 2018.
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Feb 2013
Qubole delivers a Self-Service Platform for Big Data Analytics built on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Clouds. We were started by the team that built and ran Facebooks Data Service when they founded and authored Apache Hive. With Qubole, a data scientist can now spin up hundreds of clusters on their public cloud of choice and begin creating ad hoc and/or batch queries in under five minutes and have the system autoscale to the optimal compute levels as needed. Please feel free to test Qubole Data Services for yourself by clicking "Free Trial"​ on the website.
Board Member
Sep 2011
Wave is simple money management solutions for small business owners. As an award-winning company, we are unwavering in our commitment to grow and support both our customers and our people. We care deeply and we challenge directly. We re-imagine the possible, together, to achieve extraordinary results for the small business owners we serve.
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Jun 2011
OneLogin by One Identity, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Software, leads the market in Identity and Access Management. OneLogin by One Identity, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Software, leads the market in Identity and Access Management and support more than 5,000 customers worldwide. Our platform provides everything you need to secure your workforce, customers and partners.
Board Member
Aug 2009
Rethink Robotics’ collaborative robots transform the way manufacturing work gets done on factory floors around the world. Our cobots can be deployed quickly, are designed to work safely alongside people, and are highly reliable, adaptable and easy-to-use. With a quick return on investment, manufacturers are increasingly turning to our Sawyer cobot as a smart solution to automate more while addressing challenges like labor shortages and productivity across industries such as plastics, packaging and co-packing, metal fabrication, electronics, and automotive supply chain.
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Mar 2009
Zendesk powers exceptional service for every person on the planet. As a leader in AI-powered service, we offer the Zendesk Resolution Platform, designed to redefine customer experience with advanced tools that integrate AI Agents, a comprehensive knowledge graph, actions and integrations, governance and control, measurement and insights, and human expertise. Our purpose-built platform enhances service by combining automation and human insight for seamless interactions. Easy to use, easy to scale, and easy to get value from, Zendesk helps companies strengthen relationships, improve efficiency, and grow. Learn more: http://zdsk.co/46mVi8h
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Oct 2008
Gupshup enables better customer engagement through conversational messaging. We are the leading conversational messaging platform, powering over 6 billion messages per month. Across verticals, thousands of large and small businesses in emerging markets use Gupshup to build conversational experiences across marketing, sales and support. Our carrier-grade platform provides a single messaging API for 30+ channels, a rich conversational experience-building tool kit for any use case and a network of emerging market partnerships across messaging channels, device manufacturers, ISVs and operators. Businesses have made conversations an integral part of their customer engagement success.
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2022
Co-founder & Partner
Oct 2022
Propeller is a climate-tech venture fund that invests in and builds ocean-climate companies that use science and technology to address the climate crisis. For more information, please visit us at www.propellervc.com or follow us on Twitter @propellerocean.
2019
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May 2019
Postman is the world’s leading API platform. Postmans features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster. More than 40 million developers and 500,000 organizations across the globe use Postman today. Our customers are doing more and more astounding things with the Postman product every day, and as a result, we are growing rapidly. Check out our open positions if you’d like to learn more: https://www.postman.com/careers/
Board Member
Jan 2019
Build, preview, and deploy dynamic web experiences with performance that scales. Sign up for Gatsby Cloud for free: https://gatsbyjs.com/dashboard/signup
2018
Board Member
Nov 2018
Retailers today face some of the toughest challenges in physical stores — from tracking shopper behavior to optimizing promotions and in-store media. Traditional tools often fall short in delivering real-time, actionable insights. At Standard AI, we solve these challenges by equipping retailers and CPG brands with AI-powered computer vision technology that unlocks real-time insights on promotions, media impact, new product launches, and more. Our VISION platform turns data into actionable insights, helping retailers drive sales, improve store performance, and gain deeper visibility into the shopper journey. Founded in 2017 and backed by leading venture capitalists like Y Combinator, SoftBank, CRV, and EQT Ventures, Standard AI is at the forefront of transforming physical retail with e-commerce level data insights. Partnerships: Google Cloud, AXIS COMMUNICATIONS, and NVIDIA Want to learn more? Visit https://standard.ai or email us at info@standard.ai to see how Standard AI can turn your store into a data-driven powerhouse.
2017
Board Member
Jan 2017
Trusted by more than 500 of the world’s most innovative companies, Aviatrix empowers businesses to accelerate innovation, minimize downtime, and gain control of IT costs. Aviatrix delivers an enterprise-grade secure cloud network, backbone, and edge for mission-critical applications by creating a simplified and consistent networking architecture in and across cloud service providers. Combined with the Aviatrix Certified Engineer (ACE) Program, the industry’s first and only multicloud networking certification, Aviatrix helps businesses to achieve their digital transformation goals.
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