First Rays Venture Partners
First Rays Venture Partners is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Austin, TX investing in Developer Tools, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $250K–$2.5M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$2.5M
- Portfolio
- 2 companies on record
- Partners
- 3 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Developer Tools, AI / ML
- HQ
- Austin, TX
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-07-14
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $2.5M
2+ companies
3 partners
Investment Thesis
Focused on investing in technical founders solving hard engineering problems, with a preference for data, DevOps, and backend infrastructure.
How First Rays Venture Partners invests
First Rays Venture Partners is a vc firm based in Austin, TX. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Developer Tools, AI / ML. It does not invest in Consumer.
First Rays Venture Partners typically writes checks of $250K–$2.5M per investment.
First Rays Venture Partners has backed 2 companies in our records, including PipeKit, DataFold.
Partners & Team
Anna Tran
Founding GP
Alok Nandan
General Partner
Investor and operator with a background spanning AI infrastructure, enterprise software, Microsoft Azure, and venture-backed company building.
Amit Sridharan
General Partner
Investor and operator focused on enterprise AI across data platforms, autonomy, cybersecurity, and early stage company building.
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (2)
Other
PipeKit
DataFold
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Developer Tools, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $2.5M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Anna Tran, Founding GP.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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