 Teknekron Corp., a technology incubator, provided $250,000 in seed capital to Ranadivé in 1985 to found Teknekron Software Systems.In 1997, Ranadivé founded TIBCO Software Inc. with funding from Cisco and Reuters.In 2016, Ranadivé founded Bow Capital, an early-stage startup investment firm in partnership with the University of California Regents.