FI

First Rays Venture Partners

VC
Austin, TXWebsite
How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$250K – $2.5M

Portfolio

2+ companies

Team

3 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Focused on investing in technical founders solving hard engineering problems, with a preference for data, DevOps, and backend infrastructure.

Meet the Team

AN

Alok Nandan

General Partner

AI infrastructure
enterprise software
Microsoft Azure
venture-backed company building

Investor and operator with a background spanning AI infrastructure, enterprise software, Microsoft Azure, and venture-backed company building.

AS

Amit Sridharan

General Partner

enterprise AI
data platforms
autonomy
cybersecurity
early stage company building

Investor and operator focused on enterprise AI across data platforms, autonomy, cybersecurity, and early stage company building.

AT

Anna Tran

Founding GP

AI/ML
Data Engineering

Industry Focus

Invests In

Developer Tools
AI / ML

Does Not Invest In

Consumer

Portfolio Companies (2)

Other

PI

PipeKit

Data pipelines
DA

DataFold

Data quality

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