Ullas Naik

Ullas Naik is the Founder and serves as Managing Member & General Partner at Streamlined Ventures. He serves as Board Member at Censia, FLYR, and RoboSig. He founded Streamlined Ventures with a vision of building a thought-leading investment platform rooted in the philosophical belief that the founders of companies are the true heroes of entrepreneurial value creation in our society. Streamlined Ventures invests in and supports visionary founders working on transformational application and business infrastructure software companies for the Mobile Web, Social Web, Web, and Enterprise markets. Ullas is a seasoned venture capitalist, angel investor, and entrepreneur with over two decades of entrepreneurial and early-stage investment experience across 300 companies. Prior to founding Streamlined Ventures, he co-founded investment firm Cota Capital. Prior to that, Ullas was a senior member of the investment team for 12 years at Globespan Capital and helped build the firm. He has also been an active angel investor over the last 21 years during which he invested in over 60 companies spanning Internet 1.0, Web 2.0, mobile web, social web, enterprise computing as well as disruptive technologies in other domains such as robotics and wearable computing. Before his institutional investing career Ullas was a top-ranked Wall Street research analyst at FAC Equities/First Albany. He was recognized by the Wall Street Journal and Fortune Magazine as a Wall Street All-Star. Prior to that, Ullas received an MBA degree after starting a chemicals trading business in India. He also has a bachelor's degree in organic chemistry. He is also an Angel Investor.