Sandhya Hegde
General Partner at Unusual Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder, AI Startup Advisor
2025 - Current
Investor, Board member
2024
AirOps allows users to create AI-enabled applications on top of Large Language Models (LLMs).
Raised $22,500,000.00 from JD Ross, Alt Capital, Wing Venture Capital, Lauryn Motamedi, David Rogier, Unusual Ventures, Xfund and Founder Collective.
Seed Investor, Board Member
2023
Vizcom is an AI-powered creative tool designed for industrial designers and artists.
Raised $25,000,000.00 from Daniel Sturman, Kyle Parrish, Index Ventures, Ayush Sood and Steve Malouf.
Seed Investor
2022
Sundial enables teams to understand the story of their product's data.
Raised $23,348,218.00.
Seed Investor, Board Member
2021
Goldcast is a virtual event platform that allows enterprises to create online events.
Raised $38,000,000.00 from Unusual Ventures and Westbridge Capital.
Seed Investor
2021
Enterpret analyzes customer feedback using AI and NLP, offering tailored insights for product growth.
Raised $25,100,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins, Recall Capital, Nan Yu, Canaan Partners, WIND Ventures, Lauryn Motamedi, Andrew Berman, Wing Venture Capital, Peak XV Partners and Elena Verna.
Seed Investor, Board Member
2021
Seed Investor, Board Observer
2022 - 2024
Rive is a real-time animation software provider.
Raised $14,000,000.00 from Two Sigma Ventures.
General Partner
2021 - 2024
Early stage enterprise software fund with >$1B AUM. I invest in modern SaaS companies across AI/ML, Data and Dev tools. Hosted a bi-weekly podcast on product-market fit: Learn from the successful founders of unicorns like Perplexity, Vanta, Glean, Harness and Notion - how they truly found product-market fit. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@unusualventures
Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital offering hands-on support and expertise to startups on their early-stage journey.
EVP New Products
2020 - 2021
Amplitude is the world's #1 product analytics platform originally backed by Benchmark, Sequoia and Meritech. We help creators use their customer data to build better product experiences that drive growth. We serve over 40,000 teams including 25 Fortune 100 companies. Our customers include Microsoft, Paypal, NBC, Burger King, Atlassian, Shopify, Peloton, Instacart and more. #BuildForGrowth
EVP Growth & Marketing/CMO
2018 - 2020
I led a global team of ~60 fearless marketers and inside sales reps. Together we drove growth, product marketing, content marketing, sales development, partner marketing, field events, creative design, PR and build the corporate brand at Amplitude. Over 2017-19 we created and established Amplitude as the category leader in Product Analytics with 25 Fortune 100 Customers and over 40,000 applications leveraging Amplitude to grow.
Director of Product Management & Product Marketing
2017 - 2018
Product Lead
2015 - 2017
Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
Raised $311,475,000.00 from Covenant Venture Capital.