Vivek Ranadivé

Indian-American business executive and founder of TIBCO (born 1957)

Vivek Yeshwant Ranadivé ( vee-VEK RUN-ə-DIV-ay; born 7 October 1957) is an American business executive, engineer, author, speaker and philanthropist Ranadivé is the founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of TIBCO Software, a business intelligence software company, and of Teknekron Software Systems. Ranadivé is also a co-owner and chairman of the National Basketball Association's Sacramento Kings.2

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Born Oct 7, 1957.1

About

In 2022, Ranadivé purchased a Minor League Baseball franchise, the Sacramento River Cats.

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Companies

Holdings

Stock this person has reported owning, from the forms officers and directors file with the SEC. See the biggest insider stakes.

Shares held

As of each latest filing. The line shows shares held over time.

Recent filings

  • May 18, 2022Granted 42,460 shares of WeWork15
  • Dec 28, 2021Granted 14,005 shares of WeWork16
  • Oct 20, 2021Other 5,925,013 shares of WeWork17
  • Oct 20, 2021Converted 5,925,013 shares of WeWork17
  • Oct 20, 2021Converted 721 shares of WeWork17

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedHarvard University3
  • Date not recordedHarvard Business School3
  • Date not recordedMassachusetts Institute of Technology3

Ranadivé grew up in the Juhu area of Mumbai, India, and was the youngest of three children. He studied at the Bombay International School, located at Babulnath, Mumbai. He is the great-nephew of the Indian Communist leaders Balkrishna Trimbak Ranadive and Ahilya Rangnekar. At 16, Ranadivé was admitted by MIT, but in the 1970s the Indian government did not financially support Indians who wanted to study abroad. Ranadivé talked his way into the office of the Reserve Bank of India and got the required currency to cover one quarter of the tuition.

After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from MIT, he obtained an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1983. While at MIT, Ranadivé started his first company, a UNIX consulting company. He also held management and engineering positions with Ford Motor Company, M/A-Com Linkabit and Fortune Systems.

Teknekron Software Systems

Teknekron Corp., a technology incubator, provided $250,000 in seed capital to Ranadivé in 1985 to found Teknekron Software Systems.

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TIBCO

In 1997, Ranadivé founded TIBCO Software Inc. with funding from Cisco and Reuters.

Bow Capital

In 2016, Ranadivé founded Bow Capital, an early-stage startup investment firm in partnership with the University of California Regents. Among their investments are Skillit (platform), Eversight, Workramp, Jerry.ai, and Flex.

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Career

Occupation: businessperson, motivational speaker, computer scientist.5

Personal life

  • BornOct 7, 1957, Mumbai6
  • CitizenshipUnited States7

Ranadivé and his former wife, Deborah Addicott, have three children: Aneel, Andre, and Anjali. Anjali is an R&B singer-songwriter, former basketball executive, and philanthropist.

His son Aneel founded Soma Capital, a venture fund that has seeded 34 unicorns by 2025.

From 2016 to 2020, Ranadivé donated $55,731 to Democratic candidates and causes.

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