Dimdim has raised funds from the founders and from leading global investors including: Nexus Venture Partners, Index Ventures and Draper Richards. There's a perfect fit between the investor and Dimdim because of the alignment of the investors' experience and Dimdim's vision. Draper Richards invested in Hotmail; Draper Richards and Index Ventures invested in Skype; Index Ventures has invested in a number of Open Source companies including MySQL; and Nexus Venture Partners' founder Naren Gupta sits on the board of Red Hat Linux - the most successful open source company.

Board Members :

DD Ganguly (DD) (dd.ganguly@Dimdim.com) is co-founder and CEO of Dimdim, Inc. Previously, as Vice President of Product Development at CA (NYSE:CA; $ 3.5B) he built and led an organization of 1000+ members. He joined CA in 2001 upon its acquisition of Boston based AIM, Inc. where he was founder and CEO. AIM developed innovative software products for ensuring that business applications were always up and running. Born in India, DD holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and a master's degree in computer science from Syracuse University, where he was a University Fellow. He is a proud father and lucky husband. He does not sing well but that has never deterred him from trying.

Prakash Khot (prakash.khot@Dimdim.com): As Dimdim's Executive Vice President of Product Development and Chief Technology Officer, Prakash Khot is responsible for overseeing the company's technology roadmap and leading Dimdim's engineering team. Prakash has a successful track record of driving the development of enterprise applications and next generation web applications. Prior to co-founding Dimdim, he led CA's (NYSE:CA) RFID Group in the Office of CTO. Prakash joined CA upon its acquisition of Boston based AIM, Inc. where he was co-founder and CTO. In his abundant free time he allegedly cooks gourmet food.

Suvir Sujan: Suvir Sujan is co-founder of Nexus Venture Partners. Suvir has been an entrepreneur and one of the pioneers of the consumer internet in India. Suvir has been co-founder and co-CEO of Baazee.com, the leading online marketplace in India that merged with eBay in 2004 to form eBay India. Post the merger, Suvir was Country Manager, eBay India and Regional Director, Asia Pacific, PayPal. Suvir has also worked as a Management Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. He began his career at Nortel Networks. Suvir has an MBA from the Harvard Business School where he was the Co-President of the South Asian Business Association and a BS in Electrical Engineering (High Distinction) from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is a charter member of the Internet and Mobile Association of India and a mentor to several entrepreneurs in the consumer services sector in India. He is also an angel investor and board advisor to guruji.com (Online Search) and Pangea3 (Legal Outsourcing and also sits on the board of the Global India Venture Capital Association.

Bernard Dallé is a Partner at Index Ventures, which he joined in 1997. His areas of investment focus currently include enterprise infrastructure, applications and services. Bernard serves as a Director for several companies including B-Hive, Serendipity, Pentaho, Oanda, SecureWave, FilesX, Mobissimo and Openads. Prior to joining Index, Bernard spent six years with McKinsey & Company and Procter & Gamble. While with Procter & Gamble, Bernard was responsible for the implementation of financial, accounting and logistics ERP systems. He has a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and a MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Business.

Yogesh Gupta
Yogesh Gupta was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of FatWire Software in August 2007. Yogesh oversees all global operations of the company, including sales, marketing, development, finance and professional services. He also serves on FatWire's Board of Directors. A customer focused and visionary technology executive, Yogesh brings over two decades of experience in product development, marketing, strategy, planning and business development to FatWire. Prior to FatWire, he held increasingly responsible senior management roles at CA (NYSE: CA), most recently as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Strategist. His other roles at CA included five years as Chief Technology Officer, SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing, SVP of Strategic Planning, as well as General Manager of CA's $2 billion distributed product portfolio. In 2004, Yogesh was selected by InfoWorld as one of the 25 most influential CTO's worldwide. Before CA, Yogesh held technical and management roles at various companies including Cullinet Software and Burroughs Corp.Yogesh holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin.

Board Observers:

Naren Gupta: Naren is co-founder of Nexus Venture Partners. Naren has been an entrepreneur. He co-founded Integrated Systems Inc (ISI), a leading embedded software company, where he served as the President/CEO for fifteen years. He took ISI public and subsequently merged it with Wind River Systems. Naren continued to serve on the board of Wind River till its recent acquisition by Intel. He also serves on the boards of Red Hat and Tibco. Naren has over 20 years of early and early-growth stage investment experience in US and India. Several of his earlier investments have had successful public exits, including Digital Link (IPO), E-Tek Dynamics (IPO), RightNow (IPO), Numerical Technologies (IPO, acquired by Synopsis) and Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai). Naren holds a B. Tech. degree and is a recipient of President’s Gold Medal from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi; an MS from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Naren has received distinguished alumni awards from Caltech and IIT and was elected a Fellow of the IEEE. He is an active advisor to entrepreneurs worldwide.

Howard Hartenbaum focuses on investments in enterprise and consumer software and services, wireless network solutions, and peer-to-peer technology. His current directorships include LucidPort, NearbyNow and Zimbio. He led the founding investment in Skype (acquired by eBay), and was also a former member of the board of directors where his achievement resulted in his joining the Forbes Midas List of top venture capitalists for the years 2006-2007. Prior to joining Draper Richards, Mr. Hartenbaum held positions at Hughes Electronics, where he was responsible for supporting business development, marketing and sales of satellite, information security and automotive technologies developed by HRL Technologies. He has also worked in engineering positions at Honda Motor Company and Teledyne Relays. Mr. Hartenbaum has worked overseas for a total of ten years in Luxembourg and Japan, is professionally fluent in Japanese and a graduate of M.I.T.


Board Advisers:

Satish Dharmaraj: Prior to founding Zimbra, Satish was VP of the Messaging Product Division at Openwave Systems, responsible for the email, unified messaging, voicemail, and instant messaging product lines. Satish managed the engineering and product management teams which had over 200 people and a $45 million budget. While at Openwave, Satish's division deployed 180 million mailboxes worldwide with the largest deployments being 20 million mailboxes at JPhone and KDDI in Japan. Satish previously was part of the founding team at the unified messaging company Onebox, where he led engineering and network operations, and was instrumental in the sale of Onebox to Phone.com for $850 million. Prior to Onebox, Satish was at Sun Microsystems' JavaSoft Division where he was responsible for the conception, design and implementation of Java Server Pages (JSPs); in addition, he led the team that designed and implemented the Java Servlet API. Satish previously held several positions at IBM and Transarc Corporations. Satish has BS and MS degrees in Computer Sciences and an executive management degree from Harvard Business School.