Vic Singh
General Partner at Eniac Ventures
Brooklyn, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Founding General Partner
2008 - Current
We lead seed rounds and partner with founders from 0 to 1
Eniac Ventures leads seed rounds in bold founders who use code to create transformational companies.
Board Trustee
2020
We are building an accelerator program for alumni of inwood academy. Please hit me up if you’d like to be a mentor and change lives!
Inwood Academy for Leadership Charter School is an academy that empowers students.
GM Kanvas Labs
2015 - 2017
Led the Kanvas brand after our acquisition by Aol. During my time at Aol, we tripled the team, grew the user base 25x, acquired an animation technology startup and transitioned the business to a developer platform. The platform now offers developers the most advanced camera on the market with rich media editing, special effects, AI art (neural style transfer), live video steaming with animations, augmented reality face tracking and much more as a leading brand in the Aol portfolio serving tens of millions of monthly active users.
AOL Lifestream is a web-based application that enables users to keep track of all their comments on social networking sites.
Raised $1,000,000,000.00 from Comcast Ventures and Google.
Co-Founder and CEO
2013 - 2015
Co-Founded Kanvas with my trusted partners as a network for creative self expression. Raised seed round from KEC Ventures, Scout Ventures and more. I led all aspects of the product and business from our institutional seed round through the successful acquisition by Aol and ultimate transition into a developer platform. Kanvas is now a leading developer platform for creative tools serving tens of millions of monthly active users.
Kanvas Labs is building a mobile platform that allows its users to create micro-social networks around real world experiences.
Raised $3,000,000.00 from Frank Garland, Social Starts, SierraMaya360, KEC Ventures, ARC Angel Fund, Scout Ventures, Dace Ventures, Bradley C. Harrison, Eniac Ventures and Bradley C. Harrison.
Founder and CEO
2010 - 2013
Founded Tracks to build the social experience graph. Raised seed round from General Catalyst, Boldstart and more. After many twists and turns, I pivoted the business to Kanvas after reaching 1 million users in a crowded market.
Co-Founder, Product
2008 - 2010
Co-founded Nearverse and led product for the first mobile p2p mesh networking platform for bandwidth sharing. Raised Series A and spearheaded development of our reference application for media sharing. The world was not ready for this!
Senior Associate
2006 - 2009
Super fortunate to have the opportunity to join one of the leading NYC venture capital firms right out of b-school. I knew nothing but I learned so much so quick! RRE manages over $1BB and my focus areas were cleantech, consumer social, deep tech, fintech and mobile. Deals include Flipswap (mobile resell), GetGlue (social network for entertainment), M-Via (remittance), OLO (mobile ordering), Payfone (payments) and Tendril (smart grid).
Associate
2006 - 2007
Incredible time leveraging my experience building security systems to invest in deep tech startups at Chart Venture Partners, a newly formed venture capital firm focused on homeland security and defense technologies with commercial applications. Deals included Innovative Biosensors (pathogen detection), Maxion (laser), Remote Reality (omni-directional camera) and Twisted Pair (interoperability).
Chart Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital fund investing in security related technologies with government and commercial
Fellow
2005 - 2007
As an engineer, the Toigo Fellowship was an eye opener into the world of finance. The diversity of the fellowship class and the mentorship of the alums made me more confident to pursue my path in venture capital.
Robert Toigo Foundation fosters career advancement and increased leadership of underrepresented talent by creating mechanisms.
Fellow
2005 - 2007
InSITE was a startup fellowship when i joined. It was an incredible experience to help founders building important products like Exergen (bioinformatics) and Hopstop (mapping) with some of the smartest peers in business school.
A highly competitive leadership development program comprised of exceptional graduate students at top universities
Education
BSE
1995 - 1999
MBA
2005 - 2007
Valedictorian
1991 - 1995