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Aydin Senkut

Founder of Felicis

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Aydin Senkut is the Founder and Managing Partner at Felicis Ventures, with a notable track record of investing in 9 IPOs and being recognized 11 times by Forbes Midas and 4 times by NY Times as a top 20 VC. His current role involves leading investments in companies like Skild AI, Runway, and Dedrone, showcasing his expertise in venture capital and strategic decision-making. Senkut's career highlights include leading investments in various successful startups, such as Verkada and Dedrone, and being actively involved in the growth and development of these companies as a board member. His extensive experience and achievements in the field of venture capital demonstrate his exceptional skills in identifying and nurturing high-potential startups.

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

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