Vin Sachidananda

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I’m a VC at Two Sigma Ventures where I invest in seed-series B stage startups across AI, Infra, SaaS, Security, DeepTech, Bio, and Dev Tools.

Some of the startups I currently work with: Cerby, Distributional, Zeromatter, Etched, SDF, Freestyle, Okteto, Objective, Nullify.

Previously, I did some interesting things in AI, Infra and SaaS:

Research: NLP PhD from Stanford. Researched LLMs/Transformers since their inception and precursors before that. Authored papers in all the top AI (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML) and NLP (ACL, EMNLP) conferences.

Industry: Research Scientist at Google, Apple and Amazon researching and productionalizing early LLM products with large research teams.

Startups: Founding engineer at startups spun out of MIT Celect acq. Nike and Stanford Clockwork.io. Built and sold things from pre-seed to series A/B.