Devdutt Yellurkar is a managing partner at CRV and is focused on early stage investments in cloud applications and infrastructure, mobile, big data and robotics. He holds several board positions at next-generation startups, including: Zendesk, where he was the first institutional investor; Accompani, a mobile-first relationship intelligence platform for professionals; Qubole, a cloud big data platform; OneLogin: a leading cloud and mobile identity platform as well as Rethink Robotics, that develops trainable, safe and cost-effective robots, and many other game-changing startups.

Prior to CRV, Devdutt was part of three successful startups. He was a co-founder and CEO of Yantra, an e-commerce software platform that helped the world’s largest retailers manage multi-channel retail, and was acquired by AT&T (Sterling). Prior to that, Devdutt was at Infosys as an early employee and helped define and sell the offshore software model that propelled Infosys from a small startup to one of the most well-known IT services companies in the world. Prior to Infosys, he was at KBX where he played a variety of roles including marketing, sourcing, corporate planning as the company scaled from a startup to a fast-growing public company.