Siraj Khaliq

Senior Strategic Advisor at Kembara

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Biography

Siraj Khaliq is a Senior Strategic Advisor to Kembara, listed on the firm's site with more than 25 years of experience. He was the technical co-founder and CTO of The Climate Corporation, which applied machine learning to precision agriculture and was acquired by Monsanto in 2013; Kembara's site cites the deal at $1.1B. He joined Atomico as an investment partner in 2016, covering frontier technologies including AI, computer vision, novel hardware and robotics, and held board seats at PsiQuantum, CloudNC, Graphcore and Scandit during that tenure. Earlier he was an early engineering hire at Google, where he was a founding engineer on Google Book Search. He holds an MS in computer science from Stanford and a BA (Hons) in computer science from the University of Cambridge.

Education

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

PsiQuantumGraphcoreCloudNC

Board Seats

Career Timeline

2001
Joined Google as an early engineering hire; founding engineer on Google Book Search.
2006
Co-founded The Climate Corporation and served as CTO.
2013
The Climate Corporation acquired by Monsanto; Kembara's site cites the deal at $1.1B.
2016
Joined Atomico as an investment Partner focused on frontier technologies.
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Joined Kembara as Senior Strategic Advisor; the firm does not publish a start date.

Sources & References

Kembara team section, kembara.vc ↗Atomico team profile (education, board seats, prior roles) ↗TechCrunch on Khaliq joining Atomico ↗