Investing Profile

Sandeep Bhadra(515)

VCInvestor

Vertex Ventures, early stage infrastructure software investor (infra for webN, where N = 1, 2, ... ∞)

medium.com/@bhadrasandeepSan Francisco, California

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Sandeep Bhadra's investing connections

61 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Pete Flint (NFX), and 58 other investors on Signal.

Networks Sandeep is a member of

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School Network

207 CONNECTIONS

INSEAD Network

80 CONNECTIONS

The University of Texas at Austin Network

61 CONNECTIONS

Cisco Systems Network

40 CONNECTIONS

Menlo Ventures Network

12 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Vertex Ventures Partner

Investment Range

$2.0M - $15.0M

Sweet Spot

$8.0M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$150M

Sandeep Bhadra is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Developer Tools (Series A)Insurance (Seed)Developer Tools (Seed)Cloud Infrastructure (Series A)Cloud Infrastructure (Seed)Insurance (Series A)AI (Seed)Manufacturing (Seed)Manufacturing (Series A)AI (Series A)Enterprise (Series A)San Francisco Bay Area SaaS (Series A)FinTech (Series A)FinTech (Seed)SaaS (Seed)Enterprise (Seed)

Sandeep Bhadra's Investments On Record (8)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
LightBeam.ai	Series AFeb 2024$18M	$23M
Co-investors: Bhaskar Ghosh (8VC), Venktesh Shukla (Monta Vista Capital), Ben Casnocha (Village Global), Donald Tucker (DocuSign)
Gitpod	Series ANov 2022$25M Series UnknownApr 2021$13M SeedOct 2020$3M	$41M
Co-investors: Steve Herrod (General Catalyst), Dominik Tobschall (backtrace capital), Tom Preston-Werner (Preston-Werner Ventures), Ameet Patel, Hanno Renner
Broker Buddha	Series AApr 2022$5M SeedSep 2019$5M	$10M
Co-investors: Clark Landry
Hasura	Series CFeb 2022$100M Series BSep 2020$25M Series AFeb 2020$10M	$140M
Co-investors: Gaurav Gupta (Lightspeed Venture Partners), James Tamplin (Founder Collective), John Thompson (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Neil Shah (Greenoaks Capital), Preetha Parthasarathy, Michael Stoppelman, Sam Lambert
Tulip Interfaces	Series CAug 2021$100M Series BFeb 2019$18M	$130M
Co-investors: Peter Sobiloff (Insight Partners), Dayna Grayson (Construct Capital)
Astound	Series BApr 2019$16M Series AJan 2018$12M	$28M
Co-investors: In Sik Rhee (Vertex Ventures)
Quilt Data	SeedAug 2017$4M	$4.4M
Co-investors: Ullas Naik (Streamlined Ventures), Brad Flora (Y Combinator)
FR8Star	SeedFeb 2016$900K	$4.9M
Co-investors: Rick Marini (Catapult Capital), David Mes (Off The Grid Ventures), Ben Orthlieb (2.12 Angels), Gokul Rajaram

Sandeep Bhadra's Media (3)

Vertex Ventures US Raises $200 Million Third Fund to Double-down on high-conviction approach to venture capital

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Industry 4.0: Finding software gold in heavy industrials

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Re-imagining a massive enterprise SaaS category: our investment in Astound

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most interested in

Business applications / full-stack businesses using AI. Software and technology enabled services around sleepy industries, Accounting / Audit, Manufacturing, Insurance. Data and cyber security. Developer tools

not interested in

Anything blockchain

Sandeep Bhadra's Experience

Summer Research Intern IBM Research, Bell LabsPresent

Systems Engineer Texas InstrumentsPresent

Partner Vertex Ventures2017 - Present

Principal Menlo Ventures2015 - 2017

Corporate Development Manager Cisco Systems2013 - 2014

Associate Intern Jolt Capital2012 - 2012

Project Lead Texas Instruments2010 - 2012

Algorithms Research Intern - summers 2001, 2002 Inria2001 - 2002

Sandeep Bhadra's Education