Sandhya Hegde
General Partner at Unusual Ventures
Sandhya Hegde
General Partner at Unusual Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Seed Investor, Board Member
2023 - Current
Seed Investor
2022
Board Observer
2022
Seed Investor, Board Member
2021
Seed Investor, Board Member
2021
Board Observer
2021
Seed Investor
2021
Podcast Host 🤓🎙️
2022
Bi-weekly podcast on product-market fit. Learn from the successful founders of unicorns like Perplexity, Vanta, Glean, Harness and Notion - how they truly found product-market fit. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@unusualventures
General Partner
2021
Early stage enterprise software fund with >$1B AUM. I invest in modern SaaS companies across AI/ML, Data and Dev tools. Vizcom (led Seed): #1 AI 3D product design platform for enterprises across Auto, Electronics, Fashion, CPG and more (A led by Index) Airops (led Series A): #1 AI Growth marketing company growing 70% qoq (Coinvestors: Wing, Founders Collective) Sundial (co-led Seed): Automated, warehouse native product analytics (Coinvestors: Sequoia, Slow Ventures, A to be announced) Goldcast (led Seed): AI-led video & event marketing for enterprises (Coinvestors: Afore, Westbridge). Endgame (co-led Seed): Sales automation startup (Coinvestors: Upfront, Menlo, EQT) Orum (Board member): #1 SDR automation platform (Coinvestors: Craft, Tribe). Orum leverages AI to detect voicemails, filter out bad numbers, and navigate phone directories to get reps into live conversations quickly.
EVP New Products
2020 - 2021
Amplitude is the world's #1 product intelligence platform. We help creators use their customer data to build better product experiences that drive growth. We serve over 40,000 teams including 25 Fortune 100 companies. Our customers include Microsoft, Paypal, NBC, Burger King, Atlassian, Shopify, Peloton, Instacart and more. #BuildForGrowth
EVP Growth & Marketing/CMO
2018 - 2020
I led a global team of ~60 fearless marketers and inside sales reps. Together we drove growth, product marketing, content marketing, sales development, partner marketing, field events, creative design, PR and build the corporate brand at Amplitude. Over 2017-19 we created and established Amplitude as the category leader in Product Analytics with 25 Fortune 100 Customers and over 40,000 applications leveraging Amplitude to grow.
Director of Product Management & Product Marketing
2017 - 2018
Product Lead
2015 - 2017