Shravan Narayen

Shravan Narayen is a Partner at Institutional Venture Partners in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he focuses on enterprise infrastructure and applications. He writes investment checks ranging from $10 million to $100 million, with a typical target of $25 million, backing prominent portfolio companies such as Perplexity, Glean, Chainguard, Baseten, and Eightfold.ai. Prior to joining IVP, Narayen gained full lifecycle startup experience by holding product management roles at several growth stage software companies, including Snowflake, Confluent, Quantifind, and C3.AI. He earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School between 2017 and 2019, and a bachelor's degree in Mathematical and Computational Science with honors from Stanford University. As a TechCrunch contributor and investor, his career combines early stage product development experience with late stage venture investing to help founders solve deep technical challenges.