Sandhya Hegde
Advising AI SaaS Startups, Incubating & Writing | VC, Exec, Founder (ex Amplitude, Sequoia, Khosla)
San Francisco Bay Area
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Min Investment:
$2,000,000.00Max Investment:
$10,000,000.00Target Investment:
$4,000,000.00
Skills
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Investments
Work Experience
2025
Founder, AI Startup Advisor
2025
2024
Investor, Board member
2024
2023
Seed Investor, Board Member
2023
2022
Seed Investor
2022
2021
Seed Investor, Board Member
2021
2021
Seed Investor
2021
2021
Seed Investor, Board Member
2021
2022 - 2024
Seed Investor, Board Observer
2022 - 2024
2021 - 2024
General Partner
2021 - 2024
Early stage enterprise software fund with >$1B AUM. I invest in modern SaaS companies across AI/ML, Data and Dev tools. Hosted a bi-weekly podcast on product-market fit: Learn from the successful founders of unicorns like Perplexity, Vanta, Glean, Harness and Notion - how they truly found product-market fit. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@unusualventures
2015 - 2021
EVP New Products
2020 - 2021
Amplitude is the world's #1 product analytics platform originally backed by Benchmark, Sequoia and Meritech. We help creators use their customer data to build better product experiences that drive growth. We serve over 40,000 teams including 25 Fortune 100 companies. Our customers include Microsoft, Paypal, NBC, Burger King, Atlassian, Shopify, Peloton, Instacart and more. #BuildForGrowth
EVP Growth & Marketing/CMO
2018 - 2020
I led a global team of ~60 fearless marketers and inside sales reps. Together we drove growth, product marketing, content marketing, sales development, partner marketing, field events, creative design, PR and build the corporate brand at Amplitude. Over 2017-19 we created and established Amplitude as the category leader in Product Analytics with 25 Fortune 100 Customers and over 40,000 applications leveraging Amplitude to grow.
Director of Product Management & Product Marketing
2017 - 2018
Product Lead
2015 - 2017