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Karthik Rau
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Karthik Rau

Super founder

A Stanford-educated engineer, he led product and marketing at VMware through its landmark 2007 IPO. He founded SignalFx, a cloud monitoring company, which was acquired by Splunk for $1.05 billion. Now building real-time monitoring solutions for industrial assets

4
Companies founded
$187M
Total funding raised
2 schools
Education

Companies founded

Stoke Systems
CEO · Founder · 2020 – present
Flicq
CEO · Founder · 2015 – present
SignalFx
CEO · Founder · 2013 – 2022
SignalFuse
CEO · Founder · 2013 – 2022

Currently

Active roles, board seats and partnerships.

Contentful
CEO · 2024 – present
GainSpan
Director · Silicon Engineering · 2006 – present
Atmel Corporation
Atmel India · Director · Managing Director · Microcontroller Business Unit · Senior Director

Work history

Past roles by Dealroom records.

Education

IE Business School
MBA · 2007 – 2008
Stanford University
Bachelor · Industrial Engineering · 1980 – 2000
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