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Sandhya Hegde

VC, Exec, Founder | investing in AI SaaS

San Francisco Bay Area

Work Experience

2023

  • Seed Investor, Board Member

    2023

2022

  • Seed Investor

    2022

2022

  • Board Observer

    2022

2021

  • Seed Investor, Board Member

    2021

2021

  • Seed Investor, Board Member

    2021

2021

  • Board Observer

    2021

2021

  • Seed Investor

    2021

  • Podcast Host 🤓🎙️

    2022

    Bi-weekly podcast on product-market fit. Learn from the successful founders of unicorns like Perplexity, Vanta, Glean, Harness and Notion - how they truly found product-market fit. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@unusualventures

  • General Partner

    2021

    Early stage enterprise software fund with >$1B AUM. I invest in modern SaaS companies across AI/ML, Data and Dev tools. Vizcom (led Seed): #1 AI 3D product design platform for enterprises across Auto, Electronics, Fashion, CPG and more (A led by Index) Airops (led Series A): #1 AI Growth marketing company growing 70% qoq (Coinvestors: Wing, Founders Collective) Sundial (co-led Seed): Automated, warehouse native product analytics (Coinvestors: Sequoia, Slow Ventures, A to be announced) Goldcast (led Seed): AI-led video & event marketing for enterprises (Coinvestors: Afore, Westbridge). Endgame (co-led Seed): Sales automation startup (Coinvestors: Upfront, Menlo, EQT) Orum (Board member): #1 SDR automation platform (Coinvestors: Craft, Tribe). Orum leverages AI to detect voicemails, filter out bad numbers, and navigate phone directories to get reps into live conversations quickly.

2015 - 2021

  • EVP New Products

    2020 - 2021

    Amplitude is the world's #1 product intelligence platform. We help creators use their customer data to build better product experiences that drive growth. We serve over 40,000 teams including 25 Fortune 100 companies. Our customers include Microsoft, Paypal, NBC, Burger King, Atlassian, Shopify, Peloton, Instacart and more. #BuildForGrowth

  • EVP Growth & Marketing/CMO

    2018 - 2020

    I led a global team of ~60 fearless marketers and inside sales reps. Together we drove growth, product marketing, content marketing, sales development, partner marketing, field events, creative design, PR and build the corporate brand at Amplitude. Over 2017-19 we created and established Amplitude as the category leader in Product Analytics with 25 Fortune 100 Customers and over 40,000 applications leveraging Amplitude to grow.

  • Director of Product Management & Product Marketing

    2017 - 2018

  • Product Lead

    2015 - 2017