VA

Vedant Agrawal

Premji Invest | ex-Sequoia India | HBS, IIT Madras

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Vice President

    2023

    Lead, early stage investments (series A/B) focused on AI apps and infra Involved in our investments in Hippocratic (AI agents for healthcare, series A co-lead), Galileo (AI evals and observability, series B), Writer (Enterprise workflow automation, series C lead), Poolside (AI coding, series B), Hugging Face (GitHub for AI), Runway (Video generation) Premji Invest is a multi-stage fund that invests in companies from the series A to pre-IPO stage as well as in the public markets. Some of our previous investments include Anaplan (sold for $10b+), Coupa (sold for $8b), Zuora (sold for $2b), Looker (exited to Google), Apttus, ServiceMax (sold to GE), Datastax (sold to IBM), Cohesity, Navan, Icertis, Sysdig, Signifyd, Outreach, Devoted Health, Included Health, Epic, Ikigai Labs, Hippocratic AI etc. www.premjiinvest.com

  • AV Investment Committee Member

    2024

    Each Alumni Ventures fund has its own external Investment Committee, consisting of experienced investors and business executives chosen for their track record, sector expertise, and community connection to review potential investments.

2020 - 2021

  • Product and Growth

    2020 - 2021

    Experience in launching products with a focus on user pain points, working across engineering, sales and marketing teams and growing topline profitably Scaler Academy is a college-like immersive online experience with live-classes and job access for early and mid-career software engineers; is India's most premium, non-university affiliated education product

2018 - 2020

  • Investment Professional

    2018 - 2020

    Focussed on investments in tech startups in India. Co-led/supported (*sourced): • EdTech: Scaler (Tech upskilling; Seed/Series A), Doubtnut (K-12; Seed/Series A), Classplus (Tutor software; Seed/ Series A) • Consumer tech: Apna (Social network; Series A), Bulbul (Video e-commerce; Series A), Flynote* (Travel; Seed) • EV: Log9* (Fuel cells; Seed)

2016 - 2018

  • Business Analyst

    2016 - 2018

    Worked with the firm's automotive, EV, digital manufacturing, Government and PE practices