About
Sanjiva is the founder, chairman and chief architect of WSO2. Sanjiva founded WSO2 after having spent nearly 8 years in IBM Research, where he was one of the founders of the Web services platform. During that time, he co-authored many Web services specifications including WSDL, BPEL4WS, WS-Addressing, WS-RF and WS-Eventing. In recognition for his company-wide technical leadership, Sanjiva was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology in 2003. Sanjiva has been involved with open source for many years. Sanjiva was the original creator of Apache SOAP and has been part of Apache Axis, Apache Axis2 and most Apache Web services projects. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation. In 2003, Sanjiva founded the Lanka Software Foundation, a non-profit organization formed with the objective of promoting Open Source development, not usage, by Sri Lankan developers. He is currently its Chief Scientist and a Director. LSF's success stories include many Apache Web services projects and Sahana,
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 3 investors at WSO2 are tracked.
- • 2 investors hold the Founder, Director & CEO role in VCSift. Sanjiva Weerawarana is one of them.
- • 67 investors are based in Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated June 2026.
Investment Focus
- Stages
- seed
- Location
- Colombo, Sri Lanka
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