Vaibhav Domkundwar
Founding Investor at Merlin AI by Foyer
Vaibhav Domkundwar
Founding Investor at Merlin AI by Foyer
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2018 - Current
Better Capital is a $100M AUM early-stage venture firm where we make founding-stage investments in the top 1% of founders from India. We created the pre-seed category in India and went from 0 to $100M AUM, 230 companies, 2 unicorns, 12+ soonicorns, and a community of 700 top-tier founders in a short period. Our companies are backed with follow-on funding from the best investors in the world including Lightspeed, Insight Partners, Tiger Global, DST Global, General Catalyst, Temasek, Google, Accel, Peak XV, Elevation, RTP Global, and many others. We invest across categories and have backed leaders across many of them: Fintech (Slice, Jupiter), Fintech Infra (M2P, Open), Edtech (Nxtwave, GrowthX), SaaS (Toddle, Teachmint), AI (SuperAGI, Merlin), Agritech (Vegrow, Eeki), Climate (SolarSquare, Yulu), Consumertech (Eloelo, Kolo, Stage), B2B (ShopKirana, Xhipment), Gaming (Probo, Indus), Crypto (LogX, Stader) and Healthtech (Cradlewise, Inito). We have one of the largest communities on LinkedIn and X which continues to be a massive force behind our brand and we couldn’t be more thankful for our community - they have seen us build Better Capital brick by brick from Day 1. > Here’s why top founders choose Better: https://www.bettercapital.vc/founders/ > Our full list of holdings is here: https://www.bettercapital.vc/portfolio/ > You can visualize our journey via our annual letters here: https://www.bettercapital.vc/stories/
Investor & Board Member
2020
Seed Investor
2020
Seed Investor
2019
Seed Investor
2018
Seed Investor
2021
Founding Investor
2021
Founding Investor
2022
Founding Investor
2020
Seed Investor
2021
Education
Bachelor of Engineering
1992 - 1996