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Vinay Iyengar

Managing Partner at Anansi Capital

United States

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $4,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Founder & Managing Partner

    2025

    Leveraging AI to transform backbone industries.

2018

  • Angel Investor

    2018

    Lucky to be a personal investor in companies such as: - ACV Auctions (NASDAQ: ACVA) - Auth0 (acq. by Okta for $6.5b) - Axonius - Backbone - Canva - Dashlane - Discord - Eggnog AI - Emergence Software - Enter AI (getenter.ai) - Guild Education - Habana Labs (acq. by Intel for $2b) - Hashicorp (NASDAQ: HCP) - Jemi (acq. by Brat TV) - LaunchDarkly - Melio - Orbital (withorbital.com) - PagerDuty (NYSE: PD) - Pipedrive (acq. by Vista for $1.5b) - Procore (NYSE: PCOR) - ReflexAI - Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) - Rundoo - ServiceTitan - Spark Systems (sparkhq.ai) - Toast (NYSE: TOST) - Verse Medical - Viva Republica (dba Toss) - Wander.com - Zapier

2021

  • Advisory Board Member

    2021

    Member, STEM Advisory Committee. NAF is one of the country's largest education non-profits, transforming the high school experience for 100k+ students every year.

2023 - 2024

  • Partner

    2023 - 2024

    Leading early-stage investments. Run the firm's data/ML infrastructure and climate practice areas.

  • Executive in Residence

    2023 - 2023

    Originally joined the Foundation team part-time as an XIR. Served as interim VP of BizOps & Strategy at Fortanix, a cyber security company incubated by Foundation. Later transitioned back into a full-time investing role.

2020 - 2023

  • Board of Directors

    2020 - 2023

    Empowering companies to hire the best talent, anywhere. Led seed round. Now valued at ~$3b.

2020 - 2023

  • Principal

    2020 - 2023

    Helped start Two Sigma’s West Coast venture team and grow the firm to ~$2b AUM. Led Seed -> Series B investments with a focus on ML, developer tools, cloud/data infrastructure and vertical SaaS.

  • Venture & Growth Investing

    2017 - 2020

    Sourced/supported investments in Astorian (seed), Coder (series A), Shopmonkey (series B), PagerDuty (growth) and Upside (growth). PagerDuty is now a ~$3b publicly traded company and Upside was most recently valued at ~$1.5b. Started the Bessemer Fellows program: https://www.bvp.com/bessemer-fellows/ Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) is the oldest venture capital firm in the country. We’ve funded 1 in 5 cloud software IPOs and have helped build the likes of LinkedIn, Twilio, Yelp, Skype, Shopify and Pinterest among many others.

2016 - 2016

  • Quantitative Trading

    2016 - 2016

    Equity derivatives trading (single stock and index volatility)

2015 - 2016

  • Co-Founder

    2015 - 2016

    My first (failed) venture Retask tried to fix email and task management through NLP. Incubated in the Fall 2015 cohort at the Harvard Innovation Lab.

2015 - 2015

  • Machine Learning Engineer

    2015 - 2015

    New Technology Group