Aydin Senkut
Founder of Felicis
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and Managing Partner
2005 - Current
Felicis Ventures is a leading boutique venture fund investing iconic companies reinventing core markets and creating frontier ones.
Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Investor (Lead Series B) & Board Observer
2022
Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative that provides a full PostgreSQL database.
Raised $196,125,000.00 from Coatue, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, Felicis, Avra Capital and Peak XV Partners.
Investor (Series Seed Lead) & Board Observer
2024
Investor (Lead Series B) & Board Observer
2021
Profoundly improving software security and reliability
Raised $93,000,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Redpoint and Felicis.
Investor (Series A)
2024
Investor (Lead Series A) & Board Member
2021
Investor (Lead Series B) & Board Observer
2022
Investor (Lead Series A)
2023
Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform that offers foundation concepts and infrastructure to write software codes.
Raised $626,000,000.00 from eBay Ventures, PremjiInvest, Motier Ventures, Schroders Capital, BAM Elevate, Inovia Capital, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, HSBC Ventures and Adams Street Partners.
Investor (Lead Series C) @ Board Observer
2022
Runway is an applied AI research company that builds the next generation of creativity tools.
Raised $236,500,000.00 from Rogue VC, Salesforce Ventures, NVIDIA, Google, Amplify Partners, Lukas Biewald, Howie Liu, Lux Capital, Jay Simons and Compound.
Investor (Lead Series B) & Board Member (Compensation & Audit Committee)
2017
Guideline is a retirement plan platform that offers the all-inclusive 401(k) and full-stack solution for growing businesses.
Raised $339,000,000.00 from Greyhound Capital, Xfund, Generation Investment Management, Propel, Marbruck, Future Planet Capital, Felicis and General Atlantic.
Education
MA
1994 - 1996
MBA
1994 - 1996
BS
1988 - 1992
High School Diploma
1980 - 1988