Beginning in the mid 1990s, Indian Americans increasingly moved from seeking investment to providing it. As an angel investor, M.R. Rangaswami backed more than 50 companies through Sand Hill Group, Vinod Khosla founded Khosla Ventures in 2004, and Kavitark Ram Shriram became one of Google’s earliest angel investors. This shift marked a new phase in the Indian American business story: entrepreneurs were no longer simply building companies but helping determine which innovations received funding and reached the market. Their growing influence reshaped Silicon Valley’s investment landscape and expanded Indian-origin participation in the highest levels of technology finance.
