Vinay Iyengar

Angel Investor

2018 - Current

Lucky to be a personal investor in companies such as: - ACV Auctions (NASDAQ: ACVA) - Auth0 (acq. by Okta for $6.5b) - Axonius - Backbone - Canva - Dashlane - Discord - Eggnog AI - Emergence Software - Guild Education - Habana Labs (acq. by Intel for $2b) - Hashicorp (NASDAQ: HCP) - Jemi (acq. by Brat TV) - LaunchDarkly - Melio - Orbital (withorbital.com) - PagerDuty (NYSE: PD) - Pipedrive (acq. by Vista for $1.5b) - Procore (NYSE: PCOR) - ReflexAI - Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) - Rundoo - ServiceTitan - Spark Systems (sparkhq.ai) - Talisman AI - Toast (NYSE: TOST) - Verse Medical - Viva Republica (dba Toss) - Wander.com - Zapier

Advisory Board Member

2021

Member, STEM Advisory Committee. NAF is one of the country's largest education non-profits, transforming the high school experience for 100k+ students every year.

Partner

2023 - 2024

Leading early-stage investments. Run the firm's data/ML infrastructure and climate practice areas.

Executive in Residence

2023 - 2023

Board of Directors

2023 - 2024

Vice President, Business Operations & Strategy

2023 - 2023

Interim operating executive; leading special projects.

Board of Directors

2022 - 2023

Ephemeral dev environments. Led series A.

Board of Directors

2020 - 2023

Empowering companies to hire the best talent, anywhere. Led seed round. Now valued at ~$3b.

Principal

2020 - 2023

Helped start Two Sigma’s West Coast venture team and grow the firm to ~$2b AUM. Led Seed -> Series B investments with a focus on ML, developer tools, cloud/data infrastructure and vertical SaaS.

Venture & Growth Investing

2017 - 2020

Sourced/supported investments in Astorian (seed), Coder (series A), Shopmonkey (series B), PagerDuty (growth) and Upside (growth). PagerDuty is now a ~$3b publicly traded company and Upside was most recently valued at ~$1.5b. Founded and co-led firmwide diversity and inclusion (D&I) committee, including the Bessemer Fellows program: https://www.bvp.com/bessemer-fellows/ Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) is the oldest venture capital firm in the country. We’ve funded 1 in 5 cloud software IPOs and have helped build the likes of LinkedIn, Twilio, Yelp, Skype, Shopify and Pinterest among many others.

Quantitative Trading

2016 - 2016

Equity derivatives trading (single stock and index volatility)

Co-Founder

2015 - 2016

My first (failed) venture Retask tried to fix email and task management through NLP. Incubated in the Fall 2015 cohort at the Harvard Innovation Lab.