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Kauffman Fellow and venture partner with 20 years across GE Ventures, Honeywell Ventures, and Yaletown
Credibility
Experience · 95th percentile
- Investing experience spanning approximately 20 years, from early roles at GE Ventures (2016) through Honeywell Ventures and current Exposition Ventures role.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Past founder of a B2B SaaS stealth startup focused on services for students in emerging markets.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Identified GitHub account @kamalvasagiri with 1 public repository.
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as a venture capital investor and Kauffman Fellow with active investing roles across multiple firms.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Partner / Principal at Yaletown Partners, a recognized Canadian venture capital firm investing in software, data, and device technologies.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Investing experience spanning approximately 20 years, from early roles at GE Ventures.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Active GP / fund manager as current Venture Partner at Exposition Ventures, an early-stage hardware and software investment fund.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Portfolio company DarwinAI was acquired by Apple in 2024, a notable exit from his investment portfolio.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Has made approximately 82 active investments across his venture career per sourced portfolio data.
What you likely need
You're a seasoned venture investor with deep roots in industrial tech, hardware, and software — your Kauffman Fellowship and stints at GE Ventures and Honeywell Ventures give you rare corporate-VC credibility that most early-stage investors lack. At Exposition Ventures you're now backing the next wave of sustainable industrial companies, so the highest-value events for you are those that sharpen your deal flow in deep tech and connect you with co-investors who share that thesis. You'd also benefit from founder-facing events where your operator-investor hybrid background (product management, software engineering, VC) makes you a uniquely credible partner for technical hardware/software founders.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA deep-tech investor dinner with other industrial-tech and climate-tech VCs to share deal flow and co-investment opportunities in hardware/software convergence.
- introsA Kauffman Fellows alumni roundtable to reconnect with Class 24 peers and surface co-investment opportunities in early-stage industrial software.
- tacticalA workshop for former corporate-VC investors (GE Ventures, Honeywell Ventures alumni) who have transitioned to independent GP roles, sharing LP sourcing and fund-building tactics.
- fundraisingA University of Chicago Booth alumni founder-investor mixer to surface Midwest-rooted industrial and SaaS startups aligned with Exposition Ventures' thesis.
- hiringAn office-hours session with early-stage hardware/software founders building in sustainable industry, where your product management and engineering background adds direct value.
- positioningA dinner with founders and investors who had portfolio exits to Apple or other Big Tech acquirers, to share lessons on positioning deep-tech companies for strategic acquisition.
- introsA deal-sourcing happy hour focused on Industrial IoT and edge-AI startups, connecting Exposition Ventures with founders building at the intersection of hardware and AI.