Vedant Agrawal
AV Investment Committee Member at Alumni Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Vice President
2023 - Current
Lead, early stage investments (series A/B) focused on AI apps and infra Involved in our investments in Hippocratic (AI agents for healthcare, series A co-lead), Galileo (AI evals and observability, series B), Writer (Enterprise workflow automation, series C lead), Poolside (AI coding, series B), Hugging Face (GitHub for AI), Runway (Video generation) Premji Invest is a multi-stage fund that invests in companies from the series A to pre-IPO stage as well as in the public markets. Some of our previous investments include Anaplan (sold for $10b+), Coupa (sold for $8b), Zuora (sold for $2b), Looker (exited to Google), Apttus, ServiceMax (sold to GE), Datastax (sold to IBM), Cohesity, Navan, Icertis, Sysdig, Signifyd, Outreach, Devoted Health, Included Health, Epic, Ikigai Labs, Hippocratic AI etc. www.premjiinvest.com
AV Investment Committee Member
2024
Each Alumni Ventures fund has its own external Investment Committee, consisting of experienced investors and business executives chosen for their track record, sector expertise, and community connection to review potential investments.
Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital investment firm that manages fund families that invest in a portfolio of companies.
Raised $500,000.00 from Michael Bunning.
Product and Growth
2020 - 2021
Experience in launching products with a focus on user pain points, working across engineering, sales and marketing teams and growing topline profitably Scaler Academy is a college-like immersive online experience with live-classes and job access for early and mid-career software engineers; is India's most premium, non-university affiliated education product
Investment Professional
2018 - 2020
Focussed on investments in tech startups in India. Co-led/supported (*sourced): • EdTech: Scaler (Tech upskilling; Seed/Series A), Doubtnut (K-12; Seed/Series A), Classplus (Tutor software; Seed/ Series A) • Consumer tech: Apna (Social network; Series A), Bulbul (Video e-commerce; Series A), Flynote* (Travel; Seed) • EV: Log9* (Fuel cells; Seed)
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Business Analyst
2016 - 2018
Worked with the firm's automotive, EV, digital manufacturing, Government and PE practices
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity