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Sateesh Andra

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Sateesh has worked in or with venture-backed technology start-ups in U.S/India for the past twenty-plus years. Currently, he is Managing Director at Endiya Partners, a Venture Capital fund that offers Startup Capital to Product Startups across Technology, Healthcare, and Consumer Services. He serves on boards of AlphaICs, Darwinbox, and Kissht. As a Managing Partner of Ventureast Tenet Fund, he served on the boards of Little Eye Labs (Facebook), Seclore, and OneBreath. Prior to joining Ventureast, Andra was a Venture Partner and one of the founding members of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) India, an investor in category-leading startups like Cleartrip, Reva, Pubmatic, D.light, mChek, and mGinger. Prior to DFJ, Sateesh was Founder/CEO of Euclid, a silicon valley startup, in the IT Management Software space, and was instrumental in raising VC funding ($35 M+), acquiring, and managing marquee customers and partners. He has also served in product marketing and engineering leadership roles at Tsqware (Synaptics), LSI Logic (Broadcom), and VLSI Technology (NXP). He is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). He is involved with the Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy with the objective of popularizing sports and promoting fitness consciousness in the corporate world. Sateesh co-founded Health Awareness Promotion Project India (HAPPI), which creates awareness about Non-Communicable Diseases. Sateesh was a top-ranked Table Tennis player representing A.P State in Nationals and is an ardent practitioner of meditation. Specialties: SaaS/Cloud, Cyber Security, Semi-Conductors/Hardware, Fintech, Healthcare, Social Enterprises