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Executive Venture Fund — Seed & Pre-Seed VC Firm

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Executive Venture Fund is a Seed, Pre-Seed venture capital firm investing in Security, SaaS, Enterprise. The firm has 20 portfolio companies in our records.

Portfolio
20 companies on record
Partners
2 listed
Stage
Seed, Pre-Seed
Sectors
Security, SaaS, Enterprise, AI / ML
Check size
Not in our records
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-10-26

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Seed, Pre-Seed

Portfolio

20+ companies

Team

2 partners

Investment Thesis

Selective early-stage investor focused on enterprise AI and cybersecurity, backing differentiated technology with a credible path to value creation and exit.

How Executive Venture Fund invests

Executive Venture Fund is a vc firm. The firm invests at the Seed, Pre-Seed stages, with a focus on Security, SaaS, Enterprise, AI / ML.

Executive Venture Fund has backed 20 companies in our records, including Callidus AI, Paladin Cloud, Pencil Spaces.

Partners & Team

AA

Ankur Agarwal

Founder

AI/ML in enterprise SaaS
Buyouts
M&A

Former Private Equity executive (Managing Director at Vista Equity Partners) focused on AI/ML in enterprise SaaS, Buyouts and M&A. AI strategy advisor and CEO coach who has advised 100+ CEOs and CTOs; former Boston Consulting Group and Microsoft Research. PhD in Machine Learning, IIT Delhi and Cambridge alum.

BH

Bernard Harguindeguy

Founder & General Partner

cybersecurity
AI/ML
Identity & Access Management

Operator with 6 M&A exits and 1 IPO. Recognized thought leader in cybersecurity, AI/ML, and Identity & Access Management. Serial entrepreneur who founded or turned around companies, as CEO or Chairman, that were acquired by Google, Ping Identity, Citrix, Symantec, and others. Stanford and UC Irvine alum.

Industry Focus

Invests In

Security
SaaS
Enterprise
AI / ML

Portfolio Companies (20)

Other

CA

Callidus AI

Fund I

AI software

PA

Paladin Cloud

Fund I

cloud security software

PE

Pencil Spaces

productivity / collaboration software·not specified·Fund I

collaborative workspace / productivity software

AN

Andes STR

travel tech / SaaS·seed round·Fund I

software for short-term rental operations / intelligence

LA

Lately

CR

CrowdSmart

Fund I

AI-driven decision intelligence / enterprise software

RE

RedFlag AI

Fund I

AI software for detecting and managing risks / fraud / threats

CO

Corent

Fund I

cloud application management / modernization software

CO

Codelock

Fund I

software security / developer tooling

TR

Tribe

Fund I

enterprise software platform

How to pitch Executive Venture Fund
  • •Raising at Seed, Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in Security, SaaS, Enterprise — the sectors they actively back.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Ankur Agarwal, Founder.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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