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Aashay Sanghvi

Founding Team, Advisor at Branch

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Aashay Sanghvi is a Partner at Haystack in San Francisco, California, with a background in entrepreneurship, venture capital, and product design. He has made significant investments in companies like Nominal and Kinetic Automation, demonstrating his expertise in identifying promising startups and contributing to their growth. His career highlights include being a founding team member and advisor at Branch, as well as working on special projects at Notation Capital, showcasing his diverse experience in various roles within the startup ecosystem.

Work Experience 

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Haystack

  • Partner

    2019 - Current

    Seed and early stage investing. Joined initially as an Associate in 2019. Funding startups at inception or pre-product market fit, helping them scale to hundreds of millions in revenue. Some of my investments include Birches Health, Buf, ConductorAI, Exa AI, Haus Analytics, Kinetic Auto, Layup Parts, Nominal, Norm AI, Pomerium, Prosper Health, Redpanda, Saronic, and many others. Exits: Lilac AI (acquired by Databricks), Materia AI (acquired by Thomson Reuters) Learn more at www.haystack.vc.

Haystack is a venture capital firm that backs outlier founders at the earliest stages.

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Branch

  • Founding Team, Advisor

    2018

    Premium office furniture sold directly to customers.

Branch is an online marketplace for office furniture.

Raised $13,900,000.00 from SuperAngel.Fund, Ryan Simonetti, RRE Ventures, Ricky Joshi, Great Wave Ventures, Maywic Select Investments, Alate Partners, Jiake Liu, Group RMC and Nine Four Ventures.

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Notation Capital

  • Special Projects

    2017 - 2018

    Pre-seed and seed investing in Brooklyn.

Education 

Investments 

Nominal

Seed

Total funding: $37M

Synch

Seed

Total funding: $3.5M

Bench IQ

Pre Seed

Total funding: $2M

Kinetic Automation

Series A

Total funding: $31M

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