Engineering Capital
Venture capitalActively deployingMenlo Park · Pre-Seed–Series A · 7 people tracked
Also known as ENGINEERING CAPITAL, L.L.C
Investment thesis
Engineering Capital invests early and leads seed rounds in companies pursuing new categories rooted in a technical insight, aiming to shape the future of information technology. Positioned as 'venture capital for engineers,' the firm emphasizes a deep understanding of technology, willingness to fund 'technical risk' before traditional VCs are comfortable, and hands-on support drawn from the GP's own operating and founding experience. It frequently backs technical founders at the pre-seed and seed stages, sometimes co-creating companies before they officially launch, and builds long-term relationships with repeat founders across enterprise software, cybersecurity, data infrastructure and related deep-tech categories.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 7 people
from the firm's website
What they invest in
from 21 of 42 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×15Enterprise Software ×10Cybersecurity ×7SaaS ×7Developer Tools ×6Data & Infrastructure ×5Cloud Computing ×4EdTech ×2
HQs:United States×23
Who they back
founder profiles across 13 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×32 founders×94+ founders×1
Investments · 42 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 22024 · 22023 · 12022 · 12021 · 12020 · 12018 · 12017 · 12012 · 112 dated
Securing the world's data
Palo Alto, US
Bipul Sinha(Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer)Arvind Nithrakashyap(Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer & Director)Arvind Jain(Co-Founder (former; departed to found Glean))Soham Mazumdar(Co-Founder (former))Kiran Choudary(Chief Financial Officer)Jesse Green(Chief Revenue Officer)
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsAnicut CapitalBain Capital VenturesChamaeleonEQUIAMEvolution VC PartnersFelicis Ventures+15 more
Kognitos builds an agentic AI automation platform that lets business users write automation logic in plain English, executed deterministically by a patented neurosymbolic engine across 130+ enterprise integrations.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Jose, US
Binny Sher Gill(Executive Officer, Director)Binny Gill(Founder)in
Board seatAshmeet Sidana· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsClear VenturesFin CapitalKhosla VenturesDentsu VenturesPrime PartnersProsperity7 Ventures+1 more
Onymos offers DocKnow, a document and data processing platform for clinical laboratories that captures, validates, and enriches intake documents such as test requisition forms and medical records.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsHealthtechSaaSRedwood Shores, US
SHIVAGURU NATHAN(Executive Officer, Director)Shiva Nathan(Founder)inShiva N(Founder)Bhavani Vangala(CTO)in
Board seatAshmeet Sidana· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsGreatPoint VenturesBenhamou Global VenturesIndustry VenturesBGV
Oodle.ai is an observability platform that unifies metrics, logs, traces, APM, and agent observability with AI-driven debugging, built on S3 and serverless compute.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Jose, US
Kiran Gollu(Co-founder & CTO)inVijay Karthik(Co-founder & CEO)Gaurav Maheshwari(India Site Technical Lead)
Co-investorsPear VCSNR VCY CombinatorIcon VenturesGreylock PartnersRedpoint Ventures
Hockessin, US
Nikhil Kanamarla(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatAshmeet Sidana· per SEC Form D · $3.9M raise · filed Apr 2026
Seattle, US
Marc Austin(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Michael Dvorkin(Director)
Board seatAshmeet Sidana· per SEC Form D · $3.8M raise · filed Nov 2022
Sail Internet is a fiber-based internet service provider serving the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley since 2015.
Fremont, US
Kevin Fisher(Chief Product Officer)George GinisDana Wayne Tom(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardClint Korver(Director)in
Board seatAshmeet Sidana· per SEC Form D · $2.4M raise · filed Jan 2017
Co-investorsBetter Ventures Central LlcBrainstorm VenturesLong Venture PartnersUlu VenturesV1 VC
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechSemiconductorsSeattle, US
Jonathan L Herlocker(Executive Officer, Director)Jon Herlocker(Founder)inMatthew R McLaughlin(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatAshmeet Sidana· per SEC Form D · $2.8M raise · filed Jun 2018
Co-investorsClear VenturesDN CapitalM Ventures
San Jose, US
Parin Dalal(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardRobert Cote(Director)Greg Lavender(Director)
Board seatAshmeet Sidana· per SEC Form D · $21.8K raise · filed Aug 2015
Enterprise networking security company founded by Ritesh Agrawal.
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Virtual network security solutions
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsDag VenturesWing
Asimily provides an exposure management platform that inventories, prioritizes, and mitigates cybersecurity risk across IoMT, IoT, IT, and OT devices.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityHealthtechIoTSunnyvale, US
Shankar Somasundaram(Founder & CEO)Hithesh Nama(Co-founder)Michael Brown(Director)Brendan Baker(Director)Hank Barry(Executive Officer)
BoardJohn Dougery(Director)in
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsInventus Capital PartnersMemorialCare Innovation FundRidge Ventures
Auditoria AI provides autonomous AI agents that automate accounts payable and accounts receivable workflows, from invoice ingestion, classification, matching, and payment tracking to collections outreach, cash application, and supplier inquiry handling.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSSan Jose, US
Rohit Gupta(Founder)inAdina Simu(Founder)inSwaroop Kolluri(Director)
BoardJustin Moore(Director)Brian Ascher(Director)
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsInnovius CapitalNeotribe VenturesVenrockDell Technologies CapitalWorkday Ventures
Solar power company founded by Inderpreet Wadhwa; IPO'd on NYSE (AZRE).
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Baffle provides an enterprise data security platform that applies masking, tokenization, and encryption with role-based access control to protect data as it is ingested and used in object stores, databases, analytics, and GenAI workflows.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investors1809 CapitalCelesta CapitalCelesta CapitalNational Grid Partners
CodeRabbit provides AI-powered code review tools for developers to improve software quality and efficiency in development workflows.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsWalnut Creek, US
Harjot Gill(Executive Officer, Director)inGuritfaq Singh(Executive Officer, Director)inVishavjeet Kaur(Executive Officer)Alex Berkenkamp(Executive Officer)
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsCRV (Charles River Ventures)Flex Capital PartnersFoothill VenturesHarmony PartnersNVenturesScale Venture Partners+5 more
Concentric AI provides AI-powered data security and governance solutions that help organizations discover, classify, and protect sensitive information across cloud and on-premises environments.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Jose, US
Paolo Gaudiano(Executive Officer, Director)Greg Silverman(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsAlphaDriveBallistic VenturesClear VenturesCore Ventures GroupHomebrewCiti Ventures+2 more
Montclair, US
Nicholas Kolba(Executive Officer, Director)Brian Schwinn(Director)
BoardStanton Green(Director)in
Co-investorsBlumberg Capital
CtrlStack offers QueryPal, an AI-powered customer support solution that automates ticket resolution and response drafting for support teams.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundWebb Investment Network
Evinced offers an AI-powered chatbot focused on digital accessibility that answers developer and team questions, reviews code for accessibility issues across web and mobile frameworks, and can read design screenshots.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSPalo Alto, US
Navin R. Thadani(Founder)inGal Moav(Founder)
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsBenhamou Global VenturesCapital One VenturesInsight PartnersM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)BGV
This page is a case study featuring Booking.com's use of Kentik's Network Observability Platform.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Justin Biegel(Founder)inIan Pye(Founder)
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsAugust CapitalDCVC (Data Collective)Glynn Capital ManagementGolub GrowthSpider CapitalThird Point Ventures+1 more
Mountain View, US
Vikram Kapoor(Director)inSanjay Kalra(Director)Stefan Dyckerhoff(Executive Officer, Director)David Hatfield(Director)Robert Dunn(Executive Officer)
BoardSamuel Pullara(Director)
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsAurumBright Pixel CapitalHuman CapitalSINEWAVE VENTURESWebb Investment NetworkAltimeter Capital+1 more
Menlo Security provides a browser security platform that protects both human users and AI agents through a hybrid architecture combining local security controls with cloud-based threat protection.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareMountain View, US
Amir Ben-Efraim(Founder)Poornima DeBolle(Founder)
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsBaruch Future VenturesJuniperoOUP (Osage University Partners)
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Nexla is an enterprise-grade AI-powered data platform that connects multiple data sources and transforms them into production-ready data products for AI applications and autonomous agents.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Saket Saurabh(Founder)inAvinash Shahdadpuri(Founder)in
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsBlumberg CapitalCorrelation VenturesStorm VenturesShield Capital
UC Santa Barbara is a public research university offering more than 200 majors, degrees and credentials, including over 90 undergraduate majors and more than 50 graduate programs.
EdTechSanta Barbara, US
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsAugust CapitalNorwest Venture PartnersWing
Princeton is a university whose faculty conduct scholarly research and teach, working closely with undergraduates on junior independent work and senior theses.
EdTech
Co-investorsKindred VenturesPlanet N Group of Companies
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
The compliance firewall for AI.
Kojin Oshiba(Cofounder)in
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBasecamp FundCisco InvestmentsConvergeHarpoon VenturesIn-Q-Tel
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Cloud monitoring and observability platform founded in 2013 and acquired by Splunk for $1.05 billion in 2019.
San Mateo, US
Karthik Rau(Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer)Phillip Liu(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)Mark H. Resnick(Executive Officer)Mark Cranney(Executive Officer)
BoardDevdutt Yellurkar(Board Director (CRV))inSteve Herrod(Board Director (General Catalyst))
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzCRV (Charles River Ventures)General CatalystTiger Global Management
StackStorm is a free, open-source automation engine that connects applications, services, and workflows to enable DevOps teams to automate complex operations tasks from remediation to continuous deployment.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsUtiliti Group
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Tidalwave builds AI agents for mortgage lenders that automate document review, data entry, bank statement analysis, and loan processing, along with SOLO, a 24/7 assistant that answers borrower questions with compliant responses.
AI & Machine LearningFintechPropTechNew York City, US
Diane Yu(Founder)inCheng Li(Founder)
Co-investorsPermanent Capital Ventures
Trustero provides a multi-agent AI system for governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) that analyzes policies, monitors controls, tests control effectiveness, and answers security questionnaires.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS
Phillip Liu(Founder)in
Co-investorsBright Pixel CapitalVertex Ventures
vFunction provides an AI-powered platform that analyzes software architecture and automatically refactors code to modernize systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsNeva Sgr.Presidio VenturesKhosla VenturesShasta VenturesWipro Ventures
WideField provides an identity security platform that connects identity data across SaaS, cloud, and on-premises systems to give security teams visibility into human, non-human, and AI-agent identities.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaSSanta Clara, US
Kartik CDS(Founder)
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsCisco Investments
Woodland Hills, US
Jacques Antikadjian(Executive Officer, Director)Sean Montgomery(Executive Officer, Director)
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Founded by Asim Razzaq; Engineering Capital was first investor.
Fremont, US
Asim Razzaq(Executive Officer, Director)
PartnerAshmeet Sidana· solo GP
Co-investorsCrosslink CapitalFelicis Ventures
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Exits · 2
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioPortfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
CodeRabbit · coderabbit.ai · Aug 12, 2026
Oodle · Oodle AI (company blog) · Aug 9, 2026
Evinced · trysignalbase.com · Jul 14, 2026
Kentik · networkworld.com · Jul 8, 2026
SignalFx · trysignalbase.com · Mar 24, 2026
Tidalwave · fintechfutures.com · Nov 25, 2025
Lacework · salestools.io · Oct 22, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Engineering Capital made?
- Engineering Capital has 30 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
- What stage does Engineering Capital invest at?
- Engineering Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Engineering Capital's typical check size?
- Engineering Capital typically writes checks of $100K – $10M.
- What sectors does Engineering Capital focus on?
- Engineering Capital focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, Hardware, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Engineering Capital located?
- Engineering Capital is headquartered in Menlo Park, US.
- Does Engineering Capital lead rounds?
- Yes, Engineering Capital leads investment rounds.
- Who does Engineering Capital co-invest with?
- Engineering Capital most often shares deals with Webb Investment Network, August Capital, Cisco Investments, among 69 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamEngineering Capital’s Ashmeet Sidana on the Future of AI
TechArena · Ashmeet Sidana
Podcast With Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital (The Neon Show)
The Neon Show · Ashmeet Sidana
Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
The Neon Show · Ashmeet Sidana
Engineering Capital: Investing in Technical Risk with Ashmeet Sidana
Founder to Fortune · Ashmeet Sidana
Ashmeet Sidana interview, Engineering Capital, at IITBAA Leadership Conference 2024
IIT Bayarea · Ashmeet Sidana
645th 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs: AI Investments with Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
1Mby1M Roundtables · Ashmeet Sidana
Co-investors · 51
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies focused on technology, mobile, and clean energy sectors, including biotechnology applications. The firm provides capital and strategic support to entrepreneurs developing breakthrough technologies across multiple markets.
Clear Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that provides seed capital, connections, and company-building support to fast-growing startups.
Felicis Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs founders primarily at the Seed and Series A stages, frequently leading or co-leading rounds. It operates with a founder-first approach, including a founder pledge and voting commitments.
CRV is a venture capital firm that backs founders at the seed and Series A stages, focusing on those with deep conviction and unique insights.
Wing is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies focused on business technology, data, mobile, and cloud infrastructure. The firm was founded by two experienced investors who maintain long-term engagement with their portfolio companies.
Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1991, with offices in Miami, San Francisco, New York and Tel Aviv.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, known for pioneering the platform model with a large team of operators supporting founders across stages.
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General Catalyst is a venture capital firm operating as a partnership focused on company building and accelerating the growth of the businesses it backs.
Lightspeed is a global venture capital firm that has spent over two decades backing innovative companies as an early and first investor.
Insight Partners is an investment firm focused on accelerating revenue and profit growth in software companies, providing capital and operational support through its Insight Onsite team.
Norwest Venture Partners is an investment firm whose growth equity team backs private, profitable, fast-growing companies, providing capital and hands-on support through its 'invited guest' approach.
Scale Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with AI companies, supporting their transition from founder-led growth to a scalable go-to-market operation.
▶39 more co-investors
Ulu VenturesCrosslink CapitalDell Technologies CapitalPelion Venture PartnersThird Point VenturesStorm VenturesCorrelation VenturesOUP (Osage University Partners)Industry VenturesProsperity7 VenturesLong Venture PartnersSequoia CapitalCraft VenturesBenchmarkFoundation CapitalTrue VenturesPlug and Play VenturesGradient VenturesStreamlined VenturesMayfield FundSoftBank Vision FundCota CapitalSherpalo VenturesGaingelsTSVC8-Bit CapitalZetta Venture PartnersCompany CapitalAmerican Express Ventures (Amex)HeavybitFormation GroupZeev VenturesThomvest VenturesThink+ Ventures Management, LlcRembrandt Venture PartnersElefundClearvision VenturesThe Valley FundOperator Stack
Firms observed investing alongside Engineering Capital, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Engineering Capital's recorded portfolio.
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