Our story
First Rays ventures specializes in seed stage investments in Enterprise Infrastructure Stack and B2B SaaS.
Our investment focus emanates from two dimensions that we have observed over the years of making investments in enterprise software startups.
First, we believe that at seed stage there are few funds who bring specialized focus on meeting specific needs of founders in the scale up to Series A.
At First Rays, we stay true to our expertise in enterprise B2B and bring significant value beyond capital.
Second, we believe that significant disruption is happening in the enterprise stack. Our investment theses are around mega-trends that are changing the landscape for enterprise IT.
We are seeing that these trends will disrupt the way software is being delivered and consumed in the enterprise landscape. Our active investment portfolio reflects these emerging trends.
The team
Seasoned operators with extensive technical and GTM network.
Amit Sridharan
Co-founder & Managing Partner
Amit was previously the Director at Mahindra Ventures USA where he invested in cloud-native enterprise software. He has also worked at Pear VC. His investments include Arcion Labs (acquired by Databricks), Reposify (acquired by Crowdstrike), Wootcloud (acquired by NetSkope), DocytAI (Series A), Cloudbrink (Series A), Avaamo (Seed, SeriesA), Cloudleaf (Seed, Series A). He also serves as the VP of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs. Amit was a researcher and published case studies on Venture Capital at Stanford GSB and also was ranked as a Top 100 investor by Global Corporate Ventures.
Alok Nandan
Co-founder & Managing Partner
Alok was previously a Partner at Emergent Ventures where he had investments in software infrastructure companies like Acceldata.io and Arcion.io as well as SaaS companies like Observe.ai and Talview. He was also an angel investor in Minjar (acquired by Nutanix). He started his career as a product guy in Microsoft Azure and was part of two startups that exited (YuMe, IPO:NYSE) and Tempo.AI (acq by Salesforce).
Jenny Sohn
Chief Financial Officer
Jenny Sohn is a seasoned CFO, well-versed in B2B/C SaaS in private companies, who understands the unique challenges of private companies’ finance and legal, operations. Served as Audit Chair with various board members to provide stewardship for operations, transactions and equity/ debt raises. Jenny served a number of private companies as an operator, finance leader and an advisor to executive teams over the years.
