Aneel Ranadive is the founder of Soma Capital, which he started a decade ago; Soma now has a team of 20 and roughly $1B AUM.
Soma has invested at the seed stage in 30 startups valued at over $1B like Deel ($12B), Rippling ($16B), Ramp ($13B), Cognition ($4B), Mercor ($2B), etc. with over 1,000 portfolio companies to help you close customers!
The Ranadive's have experience building multi billion dollar technology companies like Tibco which digitized Wall Street in the 90s, powered 80% of Fortune 500 companies - Vivek Ranadive ultimately sold Tibco for $4.3B to Vista and also seeded and mentored Google, Yahoo, Salesforce, eBay, to Steve Jobs personally and then bought the Golden State Warriors and in 2013 the Sacramento Kings NBA basketball team. The Ranadive's also developed +200 acres in Sacramento including malls, condos, restaurants, hotels, and the best sports arena in the world.
Sacramento Kings Chairman Vivek Ranadive: My trip to India with Obama
How Vivek Ranadive Snatched A Basketball Team From Steve Ballmer
Soma can reach nearly any CEOs of Fortune 500 co's, presidents, and world leaders for portfolio founders, here's a few examples:
Eric Glyman from Ramp says "Aneel and Soma changed my life" and Alex Bouaziz and Shuo Wang from Deel note that Soma "got us our first 100 customers"
Soma Cap is a $1B AUM platform and our LPs include partners from top VCs: