TheFounderVC

Shail Kaveti is a Founding Partner at TheFounderVC, where he invests in vertical AI companies at pre-seed and seed stages, focusing on application-layer businesses that leverage proprietary workflow data as competitive advantages. Prior to venture capital, he held operational roles at Wayfair leading customer personalization and recommendations using transformer models, at Amazon as an early employee on Amazon Business, and in trading roles at Bank of America and Susquehanna International Group. He is also an angel investor and writes about defensibility and data flywheels on his Substack newsletter Vertical Signal.