Vispi Daver is a Founding Partner at Sierra Ventures, a Silicon Valley bay area based venture capital firm with over $1.5 Billion under management. Vispi focuses on investments in the Software sector and on driving the Firm’s cross-border investments in India. Vispi serves on the boards of Parature, Revionics, Razorsight and CarWale (India) and is a board observer at MakeMyTrip.com (India), Greenplum, Approva and Code Green Networks. Vispi also manages the Firm’s investment in Seedfund, a seed stage venture fund based in India. While at Sierra he has also served as VP of Business Development at one of the Firm’s portfolio companies, Sourcefire (NASD: FIRE).
Prior to Sierra Ventures, Vispi’s tenure includes a broad range of operational roles in the United States and India. He was in the Corporate Development group at Network Associates (McAfee, Inc.), a large-cap public company in infrastructure software, where his responsibilities covered acquisitions, divestitures and strategic investments. Prior to McAfee, Vispi did product management for myCIO.com, a company that pioneered the delivery of desktop software online through the Internet. myCIO.com was among the first software companies to deliver product in a Software as a Services (SaaS) format.