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Amit Sridharan

Founding GP First Rays I Stanford GSB

Stanford, California

Overview

Amit Sridharan is the Founding General Partner at First Rays Venture Partners, investing in various sectors including Enterprise Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and AI, with notable investments in companies like Procyon.ai and Docyt. With a Master's degree from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a background in investing with companies like Databricks and Arnica.io, Amit has established a successful career in venture capital, particularly focusing on pre-seed and seed stages in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience

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First Rays Venture Partners

Founding General Partner
2020 - Current
'First Rays' specializes in seed stage investments on B2B themes disrupting the Enterprise Stack. At First Rays, we seek to invest in early rounds as co-investor (Seed to pre-Series A) with follow-on capital allocation for Series A.

First Rays Venture Partners supports visionary early-stage founders.

firstraysvc.com

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Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs

Vice President & Board Member
2023

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Databricks

Investor
2023

Databricks is an AI cloud data platform that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.

Raised $3,997,000,000.00 from Firestreak Ventures and Bossa Invest.

databricks.com

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Nametag

Investor
2024

Nametag is the first identity verification platform for secure account recovery

getnametag.com

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Backslash Security

Investor
2022

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Arnica.io

Investor & Board Director
2021

Arnica is a framework for DevOps supply chain security that is behavior-based.

Raised $7,000,000.00 from Joule Ventures, Dror Davidoff, Baruch Sadogursky, First Rays Venture Partners, Avi Shua, First Rays Venture Partners and Joule Ventures.

arnica.io

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