KD
About
Kumar Dandapani was born in northeast Ohio, attended public schools K-12, and earned dual undergraduate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Social & Decision Sciences and an M.S. Electrical Engineering from the University Pennsylvania. Mr. Dandapani started his career in financial services at a global macro hedge fund in the New York area and then as a derivatives trader at Evolution Capital Management. Prior to founding Cadenza, Mr. Dandapani served as Head of Data Science at Norwest Venture Partners in San Francisco and Palo Alto.
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 1,303 investors hold the Managing Partner role in VCSift. Kumar Dandapani is one of them.
- • 7,285 investors are based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated June 2026.
Investment Focus
- Location
- San Francisco, US
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