Aneel Ranadive is the founder of Soma Cap, started 10 yrs ago with 20 teammates and 1b+ AUM
Soma invested seed in 30+ multi billion dollar startups like Ramp (22b), Rippling (20b), Deel (17b), Cognition (15b), Mercor (10b), Cyera (10b), Razorpay (7b), Zepto (7b), Kalshi (5b), Decagon (2b), Etched AI (2b), the Bot Co (2b), etc. and growth invested in OpenAI & Anthropic!
The Ranadive’s have experience building multi billion dollar technology companies like Tibco which digitized Wall Street in the 90s and worked with 80% of Fortune 500 co’s. Vivek Ranadive ultimately sold Tibco for 4.3b to Vista and also seeded and mentored google, yahoo, salesforce, ebay, to Steve Jobs personally and then bought the Golden State Warriors and in 2013 the Sacramento Kings NBA basketball team. The Ranadive’s also developed +200 acres in Sacramento including malls, condos, restaurants, hotels, and the best sports arena in the world (examples here).
https://fortune.com/2025/09/05/trump-tech-dinner-full-attendee-list/
https://fortune.com/2015/02/27/sacramento-kings-chairman-vivek-ranadive-my-trip-to-india-with-obama/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vivek-ranadive-snatched-major-league-124552500.html
Soma regularly meets CEOs of Fortune 500 co’s, presidents, and world leaders for portfolio founders, here’s a few examples:
Eric Glyman from Ramp says “Aneel and Soma changed my life” and Alex Bouaziz and Shuo Wang from Deel note the Soma “got us our first 100 customers”
Soma Cap is a $1b+ AUM platform (see latest close) and our LPs include partners from top VCs:
Soma’s Recent Growth Investments