BMW i Ventures

GV

Mountain View, United States

Ms. Shernaz Daver serves as Advisor at GV. She is a leading marketing, business, and communications executive. She has over 20 years of experience building brands and consumer perception; advising executive management; scaling operational teams; and developing global businesses to take companies to the next level in marketing and mind share. Over her tenure, she has worked with numerous companies on a range of areas from brand building to crisis communication. These companies include Netflix, Walmart, Udacity, Motorola, Polyvore, Khan Academy, Zynga, Groupon, Kosmix, 3DO, PlayerScale (Yahoo), MetaPlace (Disney), Red Hot Labs (Google), Truveo (AOL), Savvis (CenturyLink), Orbital Data (Citrix), Indiegogo, and Baidu. She serves as an advisor to several companies including Spritz and Zettata. Previously, Shernaz served as the chief marketing officer and head of investor relations at Inktomi. Under her leadership, Inktomi became one of the hottest Internet names reaching a $37 billion valuation, and received numerous media and Wall Street accolades. Shernaz started her career at Sun Microsystems where she built a brand name for Solaris, the Sun operating system, and spearheaded the company’s European software initiatives from Paris. Shernaz holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa, and a master’s degree from Harvard University.

Mr. Karan Bajwa serves as a Managing Director, IBM India at International Business Machines. He had joined IBM last year as executive for strategy and transformation in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to this, he was managing director at Microsoft India. Bajwa will be responsible for all strategic and operational matters related to IBM India's sales, marketing, services and delivery operations in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Bajwa is also an angel investor and had backed hyperlocal services marketplace FindYahan, which was acquired by on-demand home services platform Zimmber last year.

http://sap.io/ helps innovators start-up and scale with SAP. We deliver new partnerships and products for SAP by accelerating and scaling startup innovation as well as incubating employee ventures. http://sap.io/ brings together innovators from every region, industry, and line of business to transform how businesses run. Since 2017, http://sap.io/ has helped 300+ startups and ventures accelerate their growth while enabling thousands of SAP customers to access innovation.

Samsung Global Innovation Center is a venture capital firm which invests in entrepreneurs and startups to create software and services. The team of entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, strategists, business developers and experts work together to empower the global community of startups. the firm is based in Silicon Valley, California with additional offices in New York, New York; Tel Aviv, Israel and Japan, Seoul.

DuPont Ventures is a venture investment arm of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. The firm prefers to invest in companies operating in the agriculture, transportation, construction, clean-tech, electronic materials, nutrition and health, safety technology, performance materials and coatings, and color technologies sectors. It is based in Wilmington, Delaware and was founded in 2003.

Kaiser Permanente Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Kaiser Permanente and is based in Oakland, California. The firm focuses on investing in companies operating in the medical devices, health care services and health care information technology, therapeutics and diagnostics sectors. It was founded in 1945.