About
Siddhant (Sid) is currently a Partner at Foundation Capital where he works with entrepreneurs to build the next generation of leading enterprise software companies. Sid’s experience has run the gamut from public to growth to early-stage, affording him a unique perspective on how brand leaders are built and sustained. He started on Wall Street at Barclays Capital, advising tech, media and telecom companies and spending time on both the buy-side and sell-side of major deals, from mergers and takeovers to corporate debt and equity financings. He then worked as an investment professional at Symphony Technology Group, a Palo Alto-based private equity firm investing in software, technology-enabled and data analytics companies. Before arriving at Foundation Capital, Sid was an investor at Omidyar Technology Ventures where he invested in and counseled early-stage enterprise software companies. Outside of work, Sid serves on the advisory council for Entrepreneurship at Cornell and serves as a b…
Experience
Partner
Foundation Capital · San Francisco Bay Area
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Early-stage venture capital firm with $5B+ of cumulative capital commitments and 30 years of history backing technology leaders like Netflix, Cerebras, ForgeRock, Venafi, Solana and Turing. I invest across the enterprise stack and lead our focus on cybersecurity & IT infrastructure. Companies I work with today: Stacklet, AirMDR, Prime Security, Aegis AI, DevZero, Pulse Security AI, Nimble Security, Neurelo, Levo, Permiso, Wisdom AI**, Ahum AI**, Anvilogic, Fortanix Fund investments: Secure Octane Fund (LPAC), Aviso Ventures, Cortical Ventures, Step Function, Modern Technical Fund, Heavybit Former companies: Attivo Networks* (acq. SentinelOne), Phenom*, Respond Software (acq. FireEye), CloudKnox (acq. Microsoft), MistNet (acq. LogRhythm) Note: * = investment made prior to joining Foundation Capital; ** = personal investment
Senior Associate
Foundation Capital · San Francisco Bay Area
Co-Founder
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CyberSeed is a forum where over 1,700 early-stage and aspiring founders share the highs and lows of building security startups. We bring our community together via monthly virtual events and also manage an active Slack group.
Board
Rodium · San Francisco Bay Area
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Education
Cornell University
B.A, Economics and Biology
UWC South East Asia
International Baccalaureate Diploma (High School)
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