Investor profile
Semil Shah
Angel, Operator angel & Venture Partner at Lightspeed, General Partner at Haystack
Semil Shah is an angel investor and operator angel based in Mill Valley, California, United States. The known portfolio counts 12 companies: Bevy, Applied Intuition, Trusted, Open Collective, Rewatch, CARMERA, Scoop, Cleanly, Dextro, Gyroscope Innovations, Birdeye and ByNext.
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Investment focus
- Sector
- AIHardwareHealthcareSaaS
Contacts
Semil Shah portfolio companies (12)
- Bevy
- Applied Intuition
- Trusted
- Open Collective
- Rewatch
- CARMERA
- Scoop
- Cleanly
- Dextro
- Gyroscope Innovations
- Birdeye
- ByNext
Affiliated funds' portfolios
Venture Partner at Lightspeed, whose known portfolio counts 11 companies
- Notch
- Coral
- Granola
- Sycamore
- Reliable Robotics
- Nas.com
- Ineffable Intelligence
- ScaleOps
- Modus
- Shapes Inc
- Lightspeed Commerce
General Partner at Haystack, whose known portfolio counts 21 companies
- Hadrian
- Betterview
- Moxie
- Nominal
- Oboe
- Soma Energy
- Blockit AI
- EraDrive
- alphaXiv
- Canvas Medical
- ConductorAI
- Kinetic Automation
- and 9 more
Investor Profile
The known portfolio sits in sectors AI, Hardware, Healthcare and SaaS, and focus areas Autonomous Vehicles, Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise SaaS and IoT.
Semil Shah appears in Seed, Series A and Series B rounds across the known deals.
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Colleagues
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Samer Hamadeh
Venture Partner
New York, United States
Jeremy Liew
Partner
Menlo Park, United States
Christopher Schaepe
Co-Founder
Menlo Park, United States
Bucky Moore
Partner
San Francisco, United States
Justin Overdorff
Partner
New York City, United States
Ron Cao
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Singapore
Ilse Calderon
Scout
San Francisco, United States
Ravi Mhatre
Founder
San Francisco, United States
Dennis Mark Gauci
Partner Business Development and Markets
Msida, Malta
Arif Janmohamed
Partner
San Francisco, United States
Paul Murphy
Partner
London, United Kingdom
James Alcorn
Partner
San Francisco, United States
Nakul Mandan
Venture Partner
San Francisco, United States
Clara Boh
Advisor
Singapore
Divya Dhulipala
Principal
New York, United States
David Gussarsky
Partner
Israel
Guru Chahal
Partner
San Francisco, United States
Barry Eggers
Founding Partner
Menlo Park, United States
Peter Nieh
Co-Founder & Partner of Lightspeed
San Francisco, United States
Lisa Han
Partner
San Francisco, United States
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Frequently asked questions
Who is Semil Shah?
Semil Shah is an angel investor and operator angel based in Mill Valley, California, United States with 12 known investments on file, among them Bevy, Applied Intuition and Trusted. The sections above list the sectors, stages and firms attached to that record.
What does Semil Shah invest in?
Listed sectors include AI, Hardware, Healthcare and SaaS; listed focus areas include Autonomous Vehicles, Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise SaaS and IoT. Those tags come from the companies attached to this profile, so they read as a record of what has been backed rather than a stated preference for what comes next.
What stage does Semil Shah invest at?
The known deals of Semil Shah include Seed, Series A and Series B rounds. Stage is the strongest single filter when you build a target list: an investor with no record at your stage rarely starts with you.
Which firm is Semil Shah listed at?
Semil Shah is listed as General Partner at Haystack. 68 other people in the database share a firm with Semil Shah.
How do I contact Semil Shah?
An email address and a LinkedIn page are on file for Semil Shah. The address stays masked on this page and is readable inside RaiseHunt after you create an account. The database holds no phone number for this profile.
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