Cherian Mathew

Cherian started his career in 2008 at Microsoft as a part of Bing's core web search algorithm team, working on petabyte scale data sets and machine learning algorithms.

Later on, he worked as a VC with Draper Associates (Tim Draper) and August Capital before starting Firebolt Ventures in 2014 where (as a result of backing exceptional founder-CEOs) 5 of his first 10 investments reached valuations of $100M or more.

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He holds a Masters degree from Stanford and a Bachelors in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur.