Gaurav Garg

Founding Partner at Wing Venture Capital · Joined 2013

Biography

Gaurav Garg brought a rare founder-to-investor path to Wing Venture Capital when he co-founded the firm with Peter Wagner in 2013. After early engineering roles at SynOptics and Bay Networks, he founded Redback Networks in 1996 and took it public in 1999, then spent 2001 to 2012 as a partner at Sequoia Capital, where he helped build FireEye and Jasper from early stages and served on boards for more than ten years each. In between, he founded Ruckus Wireless in 2002 and guided it to its own 2012 IPO - giving him operating experience building two public companies from scratch, not just investing in others. That builder's instinct shows up directly in Wing's long-duration, company-building posture with founders, and in its highest-profile bet: Wing was a first-check investor in Snowflake years before its 2020 IPO, which valued the data cloud company at over $70 billion on its first day of trading.

Education

BS & MS, Electrical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
BS, Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis

Previous Experience

Engineering roles, SynOptics and Bay Networks
Founder & SVP of Product Management, Redback Networks (IPO 1999)
Partner, Sequoia Capital (2001-2012)

Notable Investments

Snowflake SNOWRuckus WirelessFireEyeMobileIron

Board Seats

Ruckus Wireless
FireEye
MobileIron
Cohesity

Career Timeline

1996

Founds Redback Networks after early engineering roles at SynOptics and Bay Networks.

1999

Redback Networks completes its IPO.

2001

Joins Sequoia Capital as a partner.

2002

Founds Ruckus Wireless, which he builds toward IPO over the following decade.

2012

Ruckus Wireless and FireEye both go public; Garg's decade at Sequoia ends.

2013

Co-founds Wing Venture Capital with Peter Wagner.

2020

Portfolio company Snowflake goes public, later valued at over $70 billion on its first trading day.

Sources & References

Wing Venture Capital ↗Wing Launch Announcement ↗