Nagraj Kashyap
Touring Capital
Nagraj Kashyap is a General Partner of Touring Capital, a new fund he co-founded in 2023 investing in
early growth rounds of the next generation of enterprise software companies.
Before Touring Capital, he was a Managing Partner at Softbank Vision Fund II, investing in software and
select consumer companies. He led growth rounds in Go1, Netradyne, Arkose Labs, Workboard, Pixis.ai,
Plume, Blockdaemon and Vuori.
Prior to Softbank, he founded M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, in 2016 to invest in software startups. At
M12, Kashyap oversaw a portfolio of 100+ companies, across NA, EMEA, India and Australia, he sourced
and led early investments in Kahoot! (OSL:KAHOOT-ME), Livongo (acq. by Teledoc), Outreach.io and co-
led investments in Go1, Netradyne and Workboard.
Before M12, Kashyap was a member of the founding team at Qualcomm Ventures and led the firm from
2004 to 2016, expanding from the US to seven geographies including India, China, S. Korea, Brazil, Israel
and Europe. At Qualcomm, Kashyap sourced and led investments in companies like Zoom (first
institutional round) and saw eight successful exits, including Waze (acq. by Google), Jamdat (IPO, then
acq. by EA), and Airvana (IPO, then acq. by Ericsson). Kashyap currently serves as a member of the UT
Austin Computer Science advisory council and the Dean's advisory council at SDSU Fowler College of
Business. He holds an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Business and an MA in CS from the
University of Austin.
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