RRE Ventures Announces New General Partner, Associate

NEW YORK, June 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- RRE Ventures, LLC ("RRE"), a leading venture capital firm headquartered in New York City, today announced that Raju Rishi has joined the firm as a General Partner and that Alice Lloyd George has been promoted to the role of Associate.

Rishi brings to RRE's investment team over 20 years of experience as a distinguished technology entrepreneur, executive and investor specializing in mobility, SaaS, consumer & enterprise software and telecom.  A hallmark of RRE is its success in working closely with extraordinary founders and entrepreneurs to help them grow their companies.  Rishi brings special expertise in this respect, having founded and led two companies, held executive leadership positions at both early stage and Fortune 50 enterprises, and served as a strategic advisor to numerous startups, two of which he helped to successfully exit.

Rishi comes to RRE from Sigma Prime Ventures, where he served as a Venture Partner based in New York.  Prior to Sigma Prime Ventures, Rishi co-founded and served as COO and CMO at Rave Mobile Safety, the leading provider of SaaS-based safety solutions employed by schools and state/local governments to keep their community members safe, secure and connected.  Previously, Rishi helped to start SwiftReach Networks, a leading provider of enhanced telecommunications solutions for businesses & government. Prior to SwiftReach, Rishi was the EVP of Product Management at Vettro, a SaaS-based provider of enterprise mobile applications for sales, fleet, and service organizations. Earlier in his career, Rishi held executive roles at AT&T and Lucent, where he was responsible for R&D, architecture & product management, and was GM for the international emerging technologies division. Rishi has been, and continues to be, a strategic advisor to numerous early stage companies. Rishi is a graduate of M.I.T., where he earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering. 

"I'm thrilled to join RRE Ventures," said Rishi. "The firm's consistent top quartile track record, deep expertise in technology, strategic approach to building businesses and leadership role in the Venture Capital industry made it a compelling fit for me.  I believe RRE is positioned extraordinarily well to partner with today's most promising entrepreneurs." 

Lloyd George joined RRE in 2014 as an analyst.  She focuses on developing RRE's emerging technologies investment thesis, concentrating on early stage investments around the blockchain and cryptocurrencies; machine learning and computer vision; and virtual/augmented reality. 

Prior to joining RRE, Lloyd George was at Signia Venture Partners and Bridgewater Associates. She also lived in Beijing conducting research as a Brookings Institute fellow. A native of London, Lloyd George began her career at The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, covering business and politics in Malaysia, India, Australia, Burma and China.  Lloyd George graduated with a BA from Princeton and is a Mentor to Princeton's Entrepreneurship Lab.

About RRE Ventures
RRE Ventures is a leading venture capital firm headquartered in New York City. RRE invests in products or services enabled by information technology and partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs who seek to disrupt and transform industries.  Since its founding in 1994, RRE has organized and managed seven funds (six early-stage and one later-stage) with total committed capital of approximately $1.6 billion. With over 300 investments completed to date, of which more than 50 are in the New York metro market, RRE is considered the most active New York-based early stage technology investment firm.

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