Esha Sahai (née Ray)
Esha is a venture capitalist with significant experience in corporate development, strategy, operating roles. She is crazily passionate about innovation & startups in all shapes & forms & has a keen empathetic sense of what entrepreneurs need to succeed. Strong acumen for identifying promising & transformative entrepreneurs the moment they walk through the door. As a mentor capitalist, gets excited at the opportunity to advise & build support for passionate, bold, & ethical entrepreneurs. Offered Partner track Principal role, Basecamp Fund(AV, AUM: $1B+) SF 2019 (maternity, lactation leave) Offered Partner track Principal role, Basecamp Fund(AV) NY 2018 Offered VP Sales & Investor Relations, AV in Boston, NY, SF 2018 Offered Partner track Principal role at Castor Ventures Boston 2017 Top Fellow AV 2018 (Acceptance Rate Fellows: 1%). Consistently over performed & received Principal job offer at AV 5 months into the program Soft Offered Director Corp Dev to Vice President Microsoft Seattle 2018 Soft Offered VP reporting to Executive Director, Morgan Stanley NY 2015 M&A: Maluuba, Cloudyn, Xoxco (Howdy.ai) Investments:Smartvid, Respiratory Motion, Trocafone, Teal Drones, Consumer Physics, Sentenai, PastureMap, Lumiata, Rigetti, Sense, AgileStacks, RapidSOS, Twenty20, TVision Insights, Verity Studios, Tamr, Trifacta, Guardium, Mtonomy, 0x, GamerToken, Circle, Algorand, Top Network, Unity Biotechnology, Zapata Computing, Optimus Ride, SiFive, Ayar Labs, Tact.ai, Paxata, Mad Gaze, JumpCloud, SolveCare, Globitex, OpenAxis, Breshna/Grid, Magna, Flow48, Bitwala, Surgicure Funds:Flamenco Ventures,Blockchain Founders Fund,Bad Bitch Empire,Vested,Vitalize,Climate Seeds,Zane,Varidus,AV,M12,Maroon Venture Specialities:Investments, M&A, Partnerships, Corporate Strategy & Development, Startups & Entrepreneurship Columbia University (2004): Admit graduate program Masters of Arts in Mathematics with specialization in Math of Finance (MAFN) https://www.math.columbia.edu/mafn/ SAT2 Scores(1999), 99th Percentile Math1:800/800 Math2:800/800 Chemistry:700/800 Shri Ram College of Commerce 1998 —Admit BA(Hons)Econ (100% meritocracy). #1 institute for undergraduate economics, India. —Highest score Econ (97%,top 0.1%) in CBSE India 1998. Exam takers: 400,000+ https://www.theindianwire.com/education/best-colleges-india-economics-88250/amp/ —Prelims International Mathematics Olympiad(1996, 1997) Claim to Fame:Undergrad admit Brandeis(Little Ivy). Apparently Einstein was the Founder. https://www.raabcollection.com/literary-autographs/einstein-brandeis
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