Aneel Ranadive built and sold multiple startups - including Tag, acquired by Mark Cuban - before founding Soma Capital in 2015, which has since seeded more than 40 companies valued above $1 billion, including Ramp, Cognition, and Rippling.
2006
Graduates Columbia University with a B.S. in Mathematics; begins in investment banking before pivoting to startups.
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Launches BoredAt while at Columbia, one of the first anonymous college social networks.
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Co-founds Pinchit, a daily-deal site backed by Eduardo Saverin and Tim Draper, generating $2M in first-year revenue.
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Co-founds GlanceGuide, a video analytics company later sold to Nielsen.
2015
Founds Tag, a location-sharing app, and separately founds Soma Capital, a seed-stage venture fund.
2015
Tag is acquired by Mark Cuban.