Nagraj Kashyap

Nagraj Kashyap is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Touring Capital. Before establishing his current firm, he served as a Managing Partner at the SoftBank Vision Fund for two and a half years. Previously, Kashyap founded and operated as the Global Head of M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, starting in 2016, and spent over a decade as the Global Head of Qualcomm Ventures from 2003. Throughout his 20-year venture capital career, which followed early roles as a software engineer and management consultant, he has directed investments into prominent technology companies like Zoom, Waze, Fitbit, and Livongo. He holds degrees from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the University of Texas at Austin. Kashyap currently focuses on early-stage software-as-a-service and consumer technology investments, returning to his foundational venture roots after executing later-stage growth funding.