Salil Deshpande

General Partner

66 past transactions

Arpio

Seed Round in 2021
Arpio is a SaaS that eliminates downtime for AWS applications by making it easy to recover from any outage in just a few minutes.

Okteto

Series A in 2022
Okteto is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of software development, software engineering, and the cloud computing industry. The company allows software developers to upload and run their software online through Okteto Cloud. Okteto was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
RoboCorp Oy develops and delivers a cloud-based platform for open source robotic process automation. The company is based in Helsinki, Finland with an additional location in San Francisco, California. Robocorp Oy operates as a subsidiary of RoboCorp Technologies, Inc.

Omnipresent

Series B in 2022
Omnipresent Group Limited provides local employment, payroll, and benefits services for international teams. It employs international teams through compliant employment contracts; handles payrolls, including local taxes and cross border payments; and ensures international team has access to full benefits package. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

OpenEnvoy

Series A in 2023
Invoice reconciliation for overworked finance teams. OpenEnvoy audits every invoice for duplicate billings, excess charges, and supplier fraud and has audited over $2 billion in spend to-date through automation.

Pando

Series B in 2023
Pando provides an open-market, freight management platform which digitizes logistics operations. Its vision is to ease and enable commerce, through digital deliveries. Pando aims to increase efficiencies in the delivery ecosystem of traditional enterprises, through the introduction of advanced connectivity of and data sharing between devices, information systems, services, and stakeholders by building a network of digital delivery stakeholders on a single platform interface which users, and companies to digitize information, transactions, communication, and documentation across the board. Pando was founded in 2015 and is based in Chennai.

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Seed Round in 2022
Dgraph Labs, Inc. develops and operates a graph database. The company provides low latency solution to serve real time user queries over terabytes of structured data. It offers Slash Enterprise, a fully-managed, serverless solution for enterprises managing workloads with terabytes of data in production that runs on dedicated, multi-zone clusters with availability deployed on AWS, Azure, or GCP. Dgraph Labs, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Buckzy Payments

Seed Round in 2021
Buckzy Payments Inc. develops and offers real time ecosystem for enabling consumers and small businesses to send and receive money instantly. The company's platform offers bank transfers, digital wallet transfers, email money transfers, multi-currency transfers, and bill payments. Buckzy Payments Inc. is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

CoinDCX

Series B in 2020
CoinDCX is a company that specializes in crypto-enabled financial services. The company focuses on developing borderless financial services that ensure a simpler and uninterrupted flow of capital. Its liquidity, powerful wallet, and impenetrable security make the trading experience fast, reliable, and effortless. CoinDCX has empowered its traders with a bouquet of industry-first products to trade using liquidity from exchanges. The products are designed for all types of traders keeping their trading experience, risk tolerance, and trading frequency into consideration. The company aims to democratize finance and make investments accessible to everyone. CoinDCX was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

BitMax

Series B in 2021
BitMax is global operator of digital asset exchanges for diverse groups of clients from retail to institutions.

Daloopa

Series A in 2021
Daloopa, provides accurate, detailed and cleanly formatted models to financial institutions

HYAS InfoSec

Series B in 2021
HYAS Infosec Inc. operates as an information security company that develops next generation information security technology solutions for enterprise, SMB, and consumer markets. It offers Comox, a security intelligence platform to connect specific attack instances and campaigns to historical indicators of compromise; research malware samples and their corresponding network traffic, and bring insights into existing SIEM efforts. The company’s Comox is used by financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies, international law enforcement agencies, and major security companies. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Nanaimo, Canada.

Rolebot

Venture Round in 2022
an intelligent Recruitment Engine

Stashfin

Series B in 2021
StashFin is a digital lending venture that offers online application for personal loans, providing simple and fast approval and disbursal for loans. It was started by a team of former financial services professionals who have more than 40 years of experience in consumer finance and capital markets. It is dedicated to disrupting traditional lending in India.

Stashfin

Series C in 2022
StashFin is a digital lending venture that offers online application for personal loans, providing simple and fast approval and disbursal for loans. It was started by a team of former financial services professionals who have more than 40 years of experience in consumer finance and capital markets. It is dedicated to disrupting traditional lending in India.

Meltano

Seed Round in 2022
Meltano is an open source DataOps platform that brings together best-in-class open source tools and technologies for the data lifecycle. Open source integrations include the Singer standard for data integration and its library of over 200 connectors, dbt for transformation, Airflow for orchestration, and soon Superset for visualization. Meltano simplifies configuration, deployment, and monitoring, and lets data teams benefit from DevOps best practices such as version control, code review, and CI/CD. Built on Open Source, Meltano works alongside its community of over 1200 data professionals at startups, global enterprises, and consultancies to build the next generation of data infrastructure and support a large ecosystem of open source connectors. There are thousands of active Meltano projects in use today by organizations such as Netlify and GitLab.

TileDB

Series A in 2020
TileDB, Inc. develops and maintains TileDB, a system for managing multi-dimensional array data that arise from scientific applications. Its products include TileDB Embedded, a storage engine; and TileDB Cloud, a storage engine that allows managing arrays data. It provides a data engine that allows people to access, analyze, and share any complex data with any tool. The system allows for the management of scientific data and allows programmers to write applications for parallel data analytics. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It has an additional location in Athens, Greece.

Bodo, Inc

Series A in 2021
Bodo, Inc designs and develops elastic Python cloud engine. It offers automatic parallelization and optimization of analytics workloads across clusters. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Moss Beach, California with additional offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Sopot, Poland.

Merkle Science

Series A in 2022
They are a group of passionate individuals from Paypal, Luno, Bank of America, Instamojo who believe in the promise of decentralized and trustless commerce.

AutoCloud

Seed Round in 2021
Bring clarity to your cloud infrastructure with the most comprehensive visualization tool available for the public cloud

Autify

Series A in 2021
Autify, Inc. develops artificial intelligence based software testing automation platform. The platform monitors UI changes as artificial intelligence changes with each release and automatically updates affected test scenarios. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Storageos Ltd

Series B in 2021
StorageOS is a cloud native, software-defined storage solution to deliver persistent storage for containers. StorageOS is built from the ground-up with no legacy restrictions to give developers working with cloud native workloads total control of storage with no compromise on performance, availability or security.

Lendflow

Series A in 2021
Lendflow provides tools to allow software companies to launch great business credit products. We provide a lending widget and API to best-in-class lending infrastructure that software companies can quickly integrate into their website or app so their business users can apply for, receive and monitor business financing.

Simplified

Seed Round in 2021
Simplified is the all-in-one design platform where freelancers and entrepreneurs can collaborate, scale, and grow their content— effortlessly and beautifully.

FloCareer

Venture Round in 2021
SAS based platform to outsource interview rounds using community of freelance interviewers (gig economy). Reduce churn around hiring and save cost by 50% and hiring cycle time by 80%.

LocoNav

Series B in 2021
We are bringing together the power of our proprietary technology and wide reach to change India's vehicle landscape. Vehicle owners, Businesses, and Transporters in India are forced to run vehicles with extreme inefficiency and poor security. We're determined to change that.

Sagetap

Seed Round in 2021
Sagetap helps software vendors win in crowded markets by rapidly validating product & gtm strategy directly with target buyers & end-users

Bodo, Inc

Series A in 2021
Bodo, Inc designs and develops elastic Python cloud engine. It offers automatic parallelization and optimization of analytics workloads across clusters. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Moss Beach, California with additional offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Sopot, Poland.

Ember Fund, LLC

Seed Round in 2021
Ember Fund is a mobile "hedge fund" app for cryptocurrency investing. They're fundamentally changing the way people invest in cryptocurrencies. They've developed a technology that allows anyone from around the world to buy into a managed portfolio of cryptocurrencies with just a few taps. Ember is fully decentralized/non-custodial meaning its thousands of users from around the world, custody their own assets. The cryptocurrency is accessible only through the user's individual mobile device and no one else, preventing any central point of failure. Ember Fund was founded in Los Angeles, California in 2018.

Merkle Science

Series A in 2021
They are a group of passionate individuals from Paypal, Luno, Bank of America, Instamojo who believe in the promise of decentralized and trustless commerce.

Rendered.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Rendered.ai develops data engineering tools built to help medical, automotive, robotics, security, and other industries. It provides a Common Application Framework to produce physics-based synthetic datasets for AI training and validation. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

Nirmata

Seed Round in 2021
Nirmata, Inc. develops, owns, and operates a platform that offers container software and helps companies to deliver and operate applications. Its products include Kubernetes-as-a-Service, a platform that helps to automate operations; application modernization, a platform that helps in containerization; and multi-cloud cluster management, a platform that helps to make application stacks portable across any public or private cloud provider. It serves companies. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California.

Anjuna Security Inc.

Series B in 2021
Anjuna Security Inc. owns and operates a data-in-use platform for protecting data at-rest, in-transit, and when being processed or used in memory. Its platform enables organizations to secure their keys and key management applications in the cloud without requiring any code changes. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Kafene

Series A in 2021
Kafene is a mission driven startup with the goal of empowering flexible ownership for the customers that need it most. Backed by some of the top VCs in fintech, Kafene brings flexible payment options to products like furniture, appliances, electronics, musical instruments, and jewelry while protecting consumers from the traps of traditional debt products. If a consumer can no longer make payments on their merchandise, Kafene understands. The consumer can simply return the item with no obligation and no residual debt. This freedom is powered by a best in class consumer facing technology platform that includes app-based point of sale virtual wallets and AI based underwriting.
Astranis is a developer of a new satellite technology that aims to transmit data down to specific terrestrial locations with each satellite it launches. The company's mission is to help get online the 4 billion people who are without internet access.

Pathlight

Series B in 2021
Pathlight is a developer of a platform designed for managers to be more effective. The company's platform offers real-time data analysis, management automation, customizable alerting, one-click coaching, automatic documentation, group metric assignments and automatic agendas, intended to give leadership complete visibility about the organization.

Appsicle

Series A in 2021
QuestDB is a high performance database for time-series data. QuestDB’s software architecture has been designed from the ground up to be as close to the hardware structure as possible - offering breakthrough performance. Through QuestDB, companies can harness the power of time series data by handling billions of time-stamped events without relying on powerful hardware.

FingerprintJS, Inc.

Series B in 2021
FingerprintJS, Inc. designs and develops browser fingerprinting application programming interface that detects and stops fraud, spam, and account takeovers. The company's API de-identifies the fingerprint from a device by generating a unique identifier of a browser and allows users to detect account fraud, fraudulent payments, and malicious activity on trading, exchange, and transfer. The company offers server-side visitor history API that provides access to suspicious visitor activity, bot probability, and geolocation. The company also provides Webhooks for workflows. It serves developers. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Jeeves

Series A in 2021
Jeeves is on a mission to empower businesses globally by providing a modern approach to financial services. We deliver innovative technology that allows our customers to focus on the growth of their business. We're entrepreneurs with first-hand experience starting, operating, and growing our own businesses - so we get it - and we understand the shortcomings of today's financial offerings along with the opportunities for improvement. Backed by a diverse team with experience ranging from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, we're bringing cutting edge financial solutions to you with Jeeves.

Forecastr

Seed Round in 2021
Forecastr is online software that helps founders who hate building financial models in Excel actually understand their numbers, predict runway, and get funded.

Lendflow

Series A in 2021
Lendflow provides tools to allow software companies to launch great business credit products. We provide a lending widget and API to best-in-class lending infrastructure that software companies can quickly integrate into their website or app so their business users can apply for, receive and monitor business financing.

Opyn

Seed Round in 2020
Opyn is building an insurance marketplace to protect cryptocurrency users against system risks in Decentralized Finance.

Moov Financial, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Moov is rebuilding banking infrastructure for a cloud-native world without any legacy technology dependencies. Moov’s banking-as-a-service platform takes a developer-first approach of being open-source, portable to cloud providers or on-premises, modular for customization, and decoupled from any single bank program. Their protocols offer the first de facto standard for embedded payment infrastructure offered publicly. Moov was established in 2017 and is based in Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States.

Flux Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Flux is a scalable open data protocol providing on-chain data for any asset, commodity, or event. Easily connect to Flux with the open source SDK to enable scalable, permission-less data.

Cube Dev

Seed Round in 2020
Cube Dev, Inc. designs and develops open-source analytical API platform. The company offers Visualization-agnostic tools for building UIs, analytical API servers, and modern data stores support. Cube cloud offers managed infrastructure, inspects and traces queries, manages pre-aggregations, and provides monitoring and analysis. Cube Dev, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Moov Financial, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Moov is rebuilding banking infrastructure for a cloud-native world without any legacy technology dependencies. Moov’s banking-as-a-service platform takes a developer-first approach of being open-source, portable to cloud providers or on-premises, modular for customization, and decoupled from any single bank program. Their protocols offer the first de facto standard for embedded payment infrastructure offered publicly. Moov was established in 2017 and is based in Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States.

Pipe

Seed Round in 2020
Pipe Technologies Inc develops financing platform for SaaS companies. Its suite of products allows companies with recurring revenues to unlock their deferred cash flows and invest in growth without taking any dilution. The company offers non-dilutive financing through an instant cash advance against the full annual value of software subscriptions. It turns MRR (monthly recurring revenue) into ARR (annual recurring revenue). The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Walnut, California.

Storageos Ltd

Series B in 2021
StorageOS is a cloud native, software-defined storage solution to deliver persistent storage for containers. StorageOS is built from the ground-up with no legacy restrictions to give developers working with cloud native workloads total control of storage with no compromise on performance, availability or security.

Upgrade Inc.

Series D in 2020
Upgrade is a neobank that offers credit to mainstream consumers through cards and personal loans, together with free credit monitoring and education tools that help consumers understand and manage their finances. Upgrade Card provides an innovative credit card that brings the low cost and responsible credit of installment lending to millions of retail locations in the U.S., while Upgrade Account is a mobile banking product offered to mainstream consumers.

netdata

Series A in 2020
Netdata is an open-source, distributed, real-time, performance, and health monitoring for systems and applications to help IT teams. The free, open-source Netdata Agent gives teams comprehensive, real-time visibility into the full technology stack, yet is easy to install with no configuration necessary and no limits on scalability. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Quantum Metric

Series B in 2021
Quantum Metric develops a cross-device digital intelligence platform that is designed to identify high-value revenue opportunities. The digital experience intelligence platform helps organizations automatically identify customer friction, quantify the business impact, prioritize opportunities, and continuously measure success. It maximizes the value of the web and native apps, thereby enabling businesses to improve their digital experience, increase productivity, and optimize efficiency. Mario Ciabarra established the company in Monument, Colorado in 2015.

Anjuna Security Inc.

Series A in 2020
Anjuna Security Inc. owns and operates a data-in-use platform for protecting data at-rest, in-transit, and when being processed or used in memory. Its platform enables organizations to secure their keys and key management applications in the cloud without requiring any code changes. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Earthly Technologies, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Earthly is a build automation system for the post-container era. It builds upon technologies like Docker and BuildKit to deliver builds that are self-sufficient, reproducible, portable and parallel. You can use Earthly to create Docker images, output artifacts or to run tests. Earthly is meant not to replace build systems, but rather to act as the glue layer between them. ​Run Earthly on your laptop, in your current CI, or across a cluster via Earthly Cloud Build.

FingerprintJS, Inc.

Series A in 2021
FingerprintJS, Inc. designs and develops browser fingerprinting application programming interface that detects and stops fraud, spam, and account takeovers. The company's API de-identifies the fingerprint from a device by generating a unique identifier of a browser and allows users to detect account fraud, fraudulent payments, and malicious activity on trading, exchange, and transfer. The company offers server-side visitor history API that provides access to suspicious visitor activity, bot probability, and geolocation. The company also provides Webhooks for workflows. It serves developers. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

netdata

Series A in 2019
Netdata is an open-source, distributed, real-time, performance, and health monitoring for systems and applications to help IT teams. The free, open-source Netdata Agent gives teams comprehensive, real-time visibility into the full technology stack, yet is easy to install with no configuration necessary and no limits on scalability. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.