Karthee Madasamy

Founder & Managing Partner at MFV Partners

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Karthee is the founding Managing Partner at MFV Partners, a Silicon Valley-based, early-stage deep tech venture fund that empowers visionary companies to solve challenging technical problems and transform industries through breakthrough innovation. Karthee invests in frontier-tech startups in Robotics, Quantum Computing, Energy, and Artificial Intelligence. He represents MFV Partners’ investments in PsiQuantum (Quantum Computing Hardware), Agility Robotics (Humanoid Robotics), Chef Robotics (Food Assembly automation), and Sun Mobility (EV Tech platform), among others. Karthee also founded Harper Court Ventures, a $25M pre-seed deep tech venture fund investing in technologies and companies coming out of the University of Chicago ecosystem.

Before MFV, Karthee spent 11 years as a Corporate Vice President and Managing Director at Qualcomm Ventures, where he invested across the US, Israel, and India. He started Qualcomm Ventures' investment activities in both Israel and India. Some of his notable investments include Waze (acquired by Google), MapMyIndia (NSE: MAPMYINDIA), Validity Sensors (acquired by Synaptics), and BORQS (NASDAQ IPO), among others.

Before Qualcomm Ventures, Karthee led technical and product marketing roles in three semiconductor and wireless startups in Silicon Valley, specializing in 3G, WiFi, and Bluetooth.

Karthee has a bachelor’s in electronics and communication engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy in Chennai, India, and a master’s in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan. Karthee also holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Karthee is a Kauffman Fellow.