Tim Guleri
Managing Director, Sierra Ventures

Tim Guleri is a Managing Director of Sierra Ventures, a Menlo Park, California, venture capital fund. Sierra’s nine portfolios of venture investments have committed capital exceeding $1.5 Billion.

Tim’s investment focus is Information Technology Software companies. Additionally, Tim has helped execute on Sierra’s India strategy and investments. Tim’s investments that he’s taken public are MakeMyTrip.com in India (Nasdaq: MMYT, top performing IPO of 2010) and Sourcefire in 2007 (Nasdaq: FIRE). Additional exits have been Greenplum (EMC Corporation), Net6 (Citrix Systems) AirMedia (AOL), Makara (RedHat) and Red Aril (iCrossing).

Prior to Sierra, Tim was the founder and CEO of Octane Software. He led Octane’s merger with Epiphany (Nasdaq: EPNY) for $3.2 billion. Before Octane, Tim was vice president of field operations at Scopus Technology. Scopus went public in 1995 and was merged into Siebel Systems (Nasdaq: SEBL) in 1997. Tim was instrumental in growing the company to $100 million in revenue and to 600 employees from 1992 to 1998.

Tim holds a MS from Virginia Tech, and a BSCEE from India.