Keval Desai

Bio

Keval invests in digital media, consumer Internet and mobile companies. Keval, a past Google executive and well-known angel investor, joined InterWest's IT team in 2011. He is a board member at AdsNative, Cuyana, Grokker, Joyus, Hownd, The RealReal and Triposo, and serves as a board observer at Apteligent. Keval is also an investor in Aviate, Canva, CrowdPac, Famo.us, Knotch, GainFitness, HireArt, Optimizely, Victorious, Vidora and Wand Labs. As Google's former director of product management, Keval led teams that launched new advertising products and businesses — including video/TV ads and an expansion of AdWords. He also launched syndication of Google's products to third parties. Prior to InterWest, he was an angel investor in several start-ups including Aereo, Aviate, MyLikes, Backblaze, Rixty, SetJam (acquired by Motorola Mobility/Google) and investor in AngelPad, a startup accelerator. Immediately prior to joining InterWest, Keval was vice president for product at Digg. Earlier in his career, he was a co-founder of Achex, an Internet payments company acquired by First Data. Before joining Google, Keval was an investor at two venture capital firms, ONSET Ventures and Morgan Stanley Venture Partners. He is a member of the Dean's Advisory Board at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and also sits on the Board for the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley. Prior investments include: Empowered (Acquired by Qualcomm in 2014), Flurry (Acquired by Yahoo! in 2014), Swell (Acquired by Apple in 2014)