Kiran Arokiasamy
Platform @ Bessemer Venture Partners | VC | Startup Programs | Community Builder
Kiran founded his first business at 16 in high school, which sparked his interest in supporting entrepreneurship networks and advising diverse early-stage founders. Since then he has been developing startup university ecosystems in Manchester, Lisbon, London, and Tallinn. Kiran has spent the last four years working with cutting edge technology companies across 15 accelerators and corporate startup programmes. While completing his studies, Kiran worked at Entrepreneur First, an international deep-tech venture builder, and talent investor, supporting European operations. More recently he has worked with Boeing, Novo Nordisk, Amazon Web Services, BAE Systems and The London School of Economics on talent/ innovation programmes. Currently, Kiran is the Platform and Community manager at Bessemer Venture Partners. With more than 135 IPOs and 200 portfolio companies including Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr and Toast, and $9 billion of capital under management. He's always happy to hear from startups, founders, corporates or just interesting people with a passion for novel applications of tech, diversity, VC and social impact. You can also follow him on Twitter: @KiranAroki. Please try and write a note!
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