Aditya Naganath

Partner

Aditya Naganath

Partner

Aditya Naganath is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins with a focus on artificial intelligence, enterprise software applications, infrastructure and security. He has made investments in companies such as Sail, Traversal, Wisdom, and Maxima, and serves on the boards of several as either a director or observer. Prior to joining Kleiner Perkins, Aditya was a product manager at Google focusing on growth initiatives for the next billion users team. 

He previously was a technical lead at Palantir Technologies and formerly held software engineering roles at Twitter and Nextdoor, where he was a Kleiner Perkins fellow. Aditya earned a patent during his time at Twitter for a technical analytics product he co-created.

Originally from Mumbai India, Aditya graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, and an MBA from Stanford University. Outside of work, you can find him hosting poker games, playing guitar with a hard rock band, competing in chess or on the squash courts, and fostering puppies with his wife.

Cities lived?
Mumbai, Hong Kong, New York, London, Bay Area
Languages spoken?
English, Hindi, Tamil
First job?
A software engineering intern at Twitter

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