Sanjay Aggarwal
Venture Partner at Eight Roads
Sanjay Aggarwal
Venture Partner at Eight Roads
Greater Boston
Overview
Work Experience
Venture Partner
2015 - Current
Venture capital firm backed by Fidelity Investments. I focus on enterprise SaaS and AI-enabled businesses, including autonomous vehicles and robotics. Investments include: - RightHand Robotics (https://www.righthandrobotics.com/) - Innovusion (https://www.innovusion.com/) - Burro (https://burro.ai/) - Teleo (https://teleo.ai/) - Simon Data (https://www.simondata.com/) - Snapsheet (https://www.snapsheetclaims.com/) - Optimus Ride (https://www.optimusride.com/) - acquired by Magna International
Venture Partner
2017
Venture capital firm backed by Fidelity Investments. I focus on cross-border, India-US opportunities. Investments include: - WhatFix (https://whatfix.com/) - MoEngage (https://www.moengage.com/) - Securonix (https://www.securonix.com/) - majority acquisition by Vista Equity Partners - Mineral Tree (https://www.mineraltree.com/) - acquired by Global Payments - SaaS Labs / Justcall (https://justcall.io/) - LeadIQ (https://leadiq.com/) - Silq (https://www.onesilq.com/)
Co-organizer
2022 - 2023
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CEO
2010 - 2015
UNICEL Technologies is one of the largest mobile messaging companies in India, providing cloud-based messaging services across SMS, Voice, and Email. As CEO, I led the profitable growth of the business by over 6x, serving over 2000 customers, sending over 1.5 billion messages per month, and with an employee strength of over 100. The customer base spanned a wide range of industries, including eCommerce, financial services, IT/software, healthcare, and consumer goods. Key customers included Flipkart, Paytm, Axis Bank, Samsung, IBM, and Accenture. In early 2015 I led the successful sale of the business to Karix (http://www.karix.com/), a Blackstone portfolio company.
Vice President
2007 - 2010
Identified and executed technology and telecom investments globally, including investments in the data center sector in the UK and in Japan. Provided board-level strategic and operational support to Devonshire's portfolio companies. (Devonshire Investors is the private equity arm of Fidelity Investments)
Engagement Manager
2003 - 2007
Worked in the US and India on strategy and operations engagements in the technology and outsourcing sectors.
Software Development Manager
1997 - 2001
Led software development activities for Berkeley's complete range of machine automation solutions. Awarded multiple patents for development of a robotic self-calibration system.