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Well-laid plans will help navigate your startup (ad)venture
Talks about annual operating plan (AOP), startup planning and organizational buy-in
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Sandeep Bhadra
General Partner at Vertex Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Sandeep Bhadra is a seasoned venture capitalist specializing in investing in seed and Series A enterprise/infrastructure software companies, with a strong track record of successful investments in companies like LightBeam.ai and Hasura. Currently serving as a General Partner at Vertex Ventures US, Sandeep has also held board positions at notable companies such as Tulip Interfaces and Gitpod, showcasing his expertise in business strategy and corporate development within the tech industry.
Work Experience
General Partner
2017 - Current
Board Member
2023
Series A
LightBeam.ai employs a zero-trust data protection approach to streamline and unify data security, privacy, and AI governance.
Raised $22,300,000.00 from Dropbox Ventures, Vertex Ventures US, Village Global, Alumni Ventures and 8VC.
Board Member
2022
Seed
Board Observer
2021
Seed - First institutional round
Orkes is a microservices and workflow orchestration platform.
Raised $29,300,000.00 from Nexus Venture Partners, Battery Ventures and Vertex Ventures US.
Board Observer
2021
Pre-seed
Board Observer
2020
Pre-seed
Investor, Board Observer
2019
Series A-2
LeaseLock is an insurance technology company that leverages artificial intelligence to eliminate security deposits.
Raised $63,500,000.00 from Colibri Equity Management, QBE Ventures and RWT Horizons.
Board Member
2019
Series A
Board Member
2019
Series B
Tulip is empowering companies to digitally transform their operations its connected, IIoT-native, no-code frontline operations platform.
Raised $152,500,000.00 from Vertex Ventures US, New Enterprise Associates, Time Ventures, DMG Mori Seiki, Pitango VC and Insight Partners.
Investor
2017
Series seed
Quilt is a data collaboration engine for S3
Raised $4,180,000.00 from TechU Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Vertex Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Hack VC, DHVC, Foundation Capital, Social Capital, Brad Flora and Zillionize.