Ayush Agarwal | TEDxSeattle
Ayush Agarwal is a venture associated with Madrona Venture Group where he evaluates investment opportunities, advises portfolio companies, and executes on deals. He also runs special projects within Madrona. Most recently he brought in an entrepreneur-in-residence to explore startup opportunities in the Twitter eco-system. Social media is a strong area of interest for Ayush, and, more generally, Ayush is also interested in mobile services and consumer internet applications.
Prior to Madrona, Ayush was a business analyst at McKinsey & Company where he served on a wide range of engagements, mostly in the hi-tech sector. He has also completed internships at Google, Microsoft, Bank of America, and Zattoo, an IPTV startup. While in college Ayush worked on creating a location-based social network in 2004/5 and his senior project in college was a location-based to-do list and an indoor mapping solution.
Ayush is passionate about entrepreneurship, and the confluence of technology, business and design in creating great products and great companies.
He received a B.S.E. in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Michigan, where he was also the recipient of the Student Legacy Award.
