Aydin Senkut
Founder of Felicis
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and Managing Partner
2005 - Current
Felicis Ventures is a leading boutique venture fund investing iconic companies reinventing core markets and creating frontier ones.
Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Investor (Lead Series A)
2023
Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform that offers foundation concepts and infrastructure to write software codes.
Raised $626,000,000.00 from eBay Ventures, PremjiInvest, Motier Ventures, Schroders Capital, BAM Elevate, Inovia Capital, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, HSBC Ventures and Adams Street Partners.
Investor (Lead Series B) & Board Observer
2021
Profoundly improving software security and reliability
Raised $93,000,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Redpoint and Felicis.
Investor (Lead Series B) & Board Observer
2022
Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative that provides a full PostgreSQL database.
Raised $196,125,000.00 from Coatue, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, Felicis, Avra Capital and Peak XV Partners.
Investor (Lead Series C) @ Board Observer
2022
Runway is an applied AI research company that builds the next generation of creativity tools.
Raised $236,500,000.00 from Rogue VC, Salesforce Ventures, NVIDIA, Google, Amplify Partners, Lukas Biewald, Howie Liu, Lux Capital, Jay Simons and Compound.
Investor (Lead Series B) & Board Observer
2022
Investor (Lead Series B) & Board Member
2017
Guideline is a retirement plan platform that offers the all-inclusive 401(k) and full-stack solution for growing businesses.
Raised $339,000,000.00 from Greyhound Capital, Xfund, Generation Investment Management, Propel, Marbruck, Future Planet Capital, Felicis and General Atlantic.
Investor (Lead Series B) & Board Member
2017
Investor (Co-lead Seed)
2013
Notion is a workspace platform that offers note-taking, collaboration, task management, wikis, and databases.
Raised $343,199,697.00 from Coatue, Shine Capital and Sequoia Capital.
Investor (Lead Series A) & Board Member
2021
Education
MA
1994 - 1996
MBA
1994 - 1996
BS
1988 - 1992
High School Diploma
1980 - 1988