Rajat Bhargava is a serial 🏷️#entrepreneur, investor, and author who, as of 2026, is co-founder, chief executive, and board chairman of JumpCloud, a Boulder, Colorado company that provides cloud-based identity, device, and access management for IT teams. His public profiles credit him with founding ten companies that produced eight exits, including two initial public offerings.
Bhargava started his first company, the web analytics business 📝NetGenesis, around 1994 while at MIT; it went public in 2000. In 1996 he co-founded Sage Networks, which became the managed hosting and application services provider 📝Interliant and went public in 1999. His other ventures and investments include Yesware, MobileDay, Quova, and StillSecure, and he discussed his path from NetGenesis to JumpCloud in a Mixergy interview.
I met Raj when he was at MIT starting NetGenesis with 📝Brad Feld. When he started his second company, Sage Networks, he hired me, which led to my first job in the Internet: Director of M&A for Interliant.