Ashmeet Sidana
Investor at Menlo Security
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Engineer
2015 - Current
Engineering Capital is ...venture capital for Engineers. Engineering Capital invests in technology companies, typically as the first outside investor at the seed stage. We lead and anchor the seed round aiming to form a long lasting partnership with a select set of world-class entrepreneurs - entrepreneurs who want to build category leading companies based on technical insights in large markets.
Seed Investor
2022
Co-led seed round.
Xano provides a scalable backend, database, ready-to-use API, and a No Code business logic builder to transform data to and from any source.
Raised $15,403,612.00 from MHS Capital.
Pre-seed investor
2021
Kognitos is an AI platform designed to automate business processes.
Raised $28,349,999.00 from Khosla Ventures, Engineering Capital, Wipro Ventures and Clear Ventures.
Seed investor
2019
Led the seed round. Series A led by Sequoia Capital.
Robust Intelligence is a software firm that uses an automated approach to protect companies from AI security and safety vulnerabilities.
Raised $44,000,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, Engineering Capital, Sequoia Capital and Harpoon.
Pre-seed Investor and Board Member
2019
Led pre-seed round and continue to serve on the Board of Directors.
The leading software for integrating accessibility into web and mobile development.
Raised $57,000,000.00 from Engineering Capital, Insight Partners, Capital One Ventures, Benhamou Global Ventures and M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund.
Seed Investor
2017
Asimily's IoMT risk remediation platform holistically secures the mission-critical healthcare devices that deliver safe and reliable care.
Raised $19,970,000.00 from Ridge Ventures, MemorialCare Innovation Fund, Engineering Capital, New Leaf Venture Partners, Ridge Ventures, Inventus Capital Partners and Eileses Capital.
Seed Investor
2013
Menlo Security is a cyber security company that protects organizations from malware.
Raised $250,816,894.00 from General Catalyst, JP Morgan, Neuberger Berman, American Express Ventures, OUP (Osage University Partners) and Vista Equity Partners.
Seed Investor and Board member
2016
Nexla provides automation to integrate, transform, and monitor data for various use cases.
Raised $33,500,000.00 from Industry Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Liberty Global Ventures, Storm Ventures, Engineering Capital, Shield Capital, Liberty Global Ventures, Storm Ventures, Blumberg Capital and Industry Ventures.
Seed Investor
2015
Led seed round in Gencore - The industry’s first Content-aware Microservices Analytics. Follow-on round was led by Mayfield and the company was acquired by Nutanix in 2018.
Observability and Monitoring for Modern Cloud Applications
Raised $5,700,000.00 from Plug and Play, Moment Ventures, StartUp PHL, Engineering Capital and Mayfield Fund.
Seed Investor
2016
Lead first seed round in the company.
Next-Generation Cloud Cost Management
Raised $24,600,000.00 from Aydin Senkut, Crosslink Capital, Felicis, Pelion Venture Partners and Engineering Capital.