Aman Kumar is founding a stealth venture firm to move the culture of Silicon Valley investing. He is also co-CIO of a small family office which has invested in over 100 startups and has had several unicorn and 100x exits. Previously, Aman was an enterprise software activist, focusing on making enterprise software more consumerized, global, responsive and inclusive. At Meta, he spearheaded product marketing initiatives for Facebook Enterprise. At SAP, he reported directly to the CFO and COO on company transformation. He co-launched e-Residency as an advisor to the Government of Estonia, developed cloud strategy for the world’s largest hedge fund, and managed growth strategy for MobileIron before its 2014 NASDAQ IPO. Aman began his career in product management at Apple and Google. Born extremely preterm with multi-organ damage, Aman is the co-founder of a nonprofit to create policies and standards for an overlooked population that today includes 1% of all births in the United States. He has served as a member of the board or advisory board of the March of Dimes, the United States Presidential Scholars, The Nueva School, Crystal Springs Uplands School, the American Institute for Stuttering, and the National Stuttering Association. From 2015 to 2022 Aman was a mediaX visiting scholar at Stanford University for topics including diversity, e-government, and European innovation. Aman graduated with honors, university distinction, and Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and an M.S. in Computer Science with distinction in research. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was nominated for the Dean’s Award, and a certificate in entrepreneurship from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received the GlaxoSmithKline award. In 2005 Aman was recognized as California's top male graduating high school senior by President Bush at the White House. |
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