Vin Sachidananda

I’m a Partner at Radical Ventures across Early and Growth where I invest in Pre-seed to Series D stage companies working on AI, Deeptech, Apps and Infra.

Some of the startups I’m grateful for the opportunity to support and work with are: Etched, Zeromatter, Inception Labs, Iambic Therapeutics, SDF (acq. dbt Labs), Cerby, Distributional, Freestyle, Okteto, Objective (acq. Upwork - UPWK), Nullify.

Previously, I’ve been remarkably fortunate to work on some interesting things with some brilliant people at some very opportune times:

Investing: Partner at Two Sigma Ventures where I invested across AI, Deeptech, Infra, Apps, Security, Bio, and Dev Tools. Led AI, Deeptech, and Infrastructure investment strategies and theses across Early and Growth.

Research: NLP PhD from Stanford. Researched LLMs/Transformers since their inception and precursors before that. Authored papers in all the top AI (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML) and NLP (ACL, EMNLP) conferences.

Industry: Research Scientist at Google, Apple and Amazon researching and productionalizing early LLM products with large research teams.

Startups: Founding engineer at startups spun out of MIT Celect acq. Nike and Stanford Clockwork.io. Built and sold things from Pre-seed to Series A/B.