Eclipse?Ventures Welcomes Kushagra Vaid

I’m proud to welcome Kushagra Vaid to the Eclipse family, as our newest partner. Throughout his career, Kushagra has been an influential change agent driving innovative new technologies from early concept to scale production.

Today is his first official day with us, but the Eclipse team has known Kushagra for several years. We’ve been impressed with his ability to connect with founders and offer insightful and strategic guidance. We’ve seen this firsthand: He serves on the board of directors for one of our portfolio companies, Flex Logix. And we’re excited to see him share his insights and energy with the companies we engage with going forward.

Previously, as VP and Distinguished Engineer in Microsoft’s Azure Division, Kushagra was responsible for the vision, strategy and architecture for the cloud-datacenter infrastructure that hosts Azure’s global scale services. He played a pivotal role in Microsoft’s success as a leading hyperscale public-cloud operator and remains a recognized industry leader on infrastructure innovation and open-source hardware. Kushagra represented Microsoft on the Open Compute Project Board of Directors, and is a strategic advisor to the Global Semiconductor Alliance.

Prior to joining Microsoft in 2007, Kushagra was a Principal Engineer at Intel, where his responsibilities included technology strategy, architecture and design for Intel’s enterprise and cloud platforms. He has published over 25 research papers in international conferences, and holds more than 30 patents in computer architecture and systems design.

Kushagra is also on the industry advisory board for the Computer Science Department at SUNY Binghamton, from where he earned his MS.

Welcome to the team, Kushagra. We're excited for you to join us to help advance the digital transformation across our essential industries.

Kushagra, an avid photographer, took this picture during the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017. We see it as a bit of foreshadowing.

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