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Venky Harinarayan

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Smart Money Rating: 83 out of 100

Partner, Milliways Ventures

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Milliways Ventures
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Record updated 22 September 2026

About

Venky Harinarayan is an entrepreneur and investor. He is currently a founding partner at Milliways Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm. He was a founder of Junglee — a pioneering shopping search engine that was acquired by Amazon.com, a founder of Kosmix — an innovative search and categorization company that was acquired by Walmart Stores, Inc., and a founding investor in Efficient Frontier — a leading search and social media marketing company that was acquired by Adobe. Together, these start-ups were valued at $1 billion at the time of their acquisition. Venky has also played the role of entrepreneur in two of the most successful retailers of our times — Walmart and Amazon.com. Most recently, at Walmart, Venky created and was head of @WalmartLabs

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