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Ashmeet Sidana

Investor at Menlo Security

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Ashmeet Sidana is the Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital in Palo Alto, California. With a background in product management and venture capital, he has made significant investments in various tech startups, including Kognitos and Nexla, and holds board positions in companies like Evinced and YotaScale. Sidana's career highlights include leading cross-functional teams, investing in successful companies like Kognitos (Series A) and Nexla (Series B), and demonstrating expertise in product management, venture capital, and strategic partnerships in the tech industry.

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.

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