Bobby Yerramilli-Rao

Active Investor

Chief Strategy Officer at Microsoft

Redmond, Washington

Bobby Yerramilli-Rao, Chief Strategy Officer at Microsoft is an active investor based in Redmond, Washington. This profile covers what Bobby Yerramilli-Rao backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Dr. Bobby Yerramilli-Rao serves as Board Member at GlobalFoundries. Dr. Yerramilli-Rao is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Genome Therapeutics. He serves as Chief Strategy Officer & Corporate Vice President, Corporate Strategy at Microsoft. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Observer at bimodal. He served as Executive Chairman at FuzeBox Software. He served as a Managing Partner at Hermes Growth Partners. He is an Independent Director at Instart Logic. He was formerly the Corporate Strategy Director and Internet Services Marketing Director of Vodafone Group. As part of these global roles, he was responsible for overall strategy and technology-related acquisitions and served on the company's investment committee. He serves on the Boards of Directors of Instart Logic and Cambridge Epigenetix, is an observer on the Board of Thinking Phones, and was the lead investor at Fuze and RingCentral. He is a former research engineer at Marconi and was a partner at McKinsey and Company in New Jersey and Palo Alto. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) in Robotics from the University of Oxford.

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Invests in: Artificial IntelligenceHealthcare & BiotechSaaS & EnterpriseConsumer & RetailConsumer Goods (CPG)E-commerce & D2CClimate & EnergyDeveloper Tools & Data
Location: Redmond, Washington
Typical check: $500K
Past investments: 9

Notable investments

GlobetouchVodafoneBarefoot NetworksInstart LogicVeloCloud Networks™ , Inc.RingCentralGLOBALFOUNDRIESThinkingPhonesInstart

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