Ajay Kapur
General Partner at Cerebras
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAjay Kapur is an investor and seasoned tech founder with 15 years of experience building and scaling developer platforms and edge infrastructure from San Francisco. He co-founded and led Moovweb/Layer0 to category leadership and a successful exit to Edgio, then grew the acquired security and edge business to nearly $100M ARR and outcompeted larger incumbents. Ajay pairs deep product and engineering instincts—dating back to shipping mobile apps and Symbian software—with board and investor roles in startups across pre-seed to secondary markets. He brings a rare combination of operator grit, IPO/exit-scale outcomes, and Wall Street experience from an early career in private equity at Goldman Sachs. Based at Stanford GSB and UC Berkeley alumni, he often invests in developer-facing infrastructure and AI startups and favors hands-on involvement that helps founders scale technical teams and revenue. An underappreciated strength is his track record of turning modest capital into outsized returns while retaining employee continuity through acquisitions.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Full-time two-year program, MBA Full-time two-year program at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBA Double major in Physics & CS, BA Double major in Physics & CS at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (28)
server-side-rendering10
react-storefront10
salesforce-commerce-cloud10
preact10
ecommerce9
javascript9
dependency-manager9
nextjs9
magento9
sass-compiler9
commerce9
golang9
react9
open-source7
go7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
theball/xdn-docs
Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
Docs app for the Moovweb XDN
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
docs-app
theball/azure-docs
Aug 2023 - Aug 2023
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push in 1 day
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