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Alok Nandan

InvestorFounder

Managing Partner at First Rays Venture Partners · Board director at Blotout Startup

San Francisco Bay Area

Writes $500K – $1M checks · typically $500K

FoundedBlotout Startup

About

Alok Nandan is a Founding General Partner at First Rays Venture Partners, which focuses on seed-stage Enterprise B2B software investments targeting disruption in the software stack following the end of Moore's Law. He previously served as a Partner at Emergent Ventures and spent 15 years as an operating executive in enterprise software, including roles at Microsoft Azure, Salesforce, YuMevideo, and TempoAI. His background encompasses enterprise and data infrastructure, developer tools, and distributed systems, with multiple patents and over 30 peer-reviewed articles in these domains.

Board director at Blotout Startup

Intro paths

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Blotout Startup's investors · 5

First Rays Venture PartnersSan Francisco · since 2021Launchpad CapitalOakland · since 2021LoftyInc CapitalHouston · since 2021Strategxy Ventures LLCBeverly Hills · $1M – $5M checks · since 2021Tunitas VenturesMenlo Park · since 2021

Co-founders at Blotout Startup

MS
Mandar ShindeExecutive Officer, Director
MB
Matthew BoulosDirector

Experience

  1. First Rays Venture PartnersManaging Partner (CIO, CISO)current2020 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. DatabricksInvestorcurrent2023 — present
  3. AllstacksBoard Membercurrent2026 — present
  4. Backslash SecurityBoard Observercurrent2023 — present
  5. BlotoutBoard Membercurrent2022 — present
  6. Emergent VenturesPartner2016 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
  7. Tempo AI (acq. by SalesForce)Director of Product Management2014 — 2016Menlo Park
  8. YuMe (NYSE)Group Product Manager2012 — 2014Redwood City, CA
  9. MicrosoftSenior PM2005 — 2012Redmond, Mountain View and Beijing
  10. UCLAGraduate Student Researcher2001 — 2005
  11. ToneThis Inc.Co-founder2003
  12. EntomoSoftware Engineer2002
  13. IntelSoftware Engineer2000

Education

  1. UCLAPhD, Computer Science
  2. Northwestern University - Kellogg School of ManagementExecutive Education Program, Marketing
  3. Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurB.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering
  4. St Xavier's1985 — 1997

Skills & more

Management10Team Management1Strategy10Early Stage InvestmentBoard GovernanceDirectorshipBoard level experienceNon-Executive DirectorWireMock CloudProduct Management40Software Project Management15Program Management7
+12 moreCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareData MiningAlgorithmsMachine LearningDistributed SystemsHadoopAnalyticsSoftware DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringOnline AdvertisingDigital Media

Languages English · Hindi · Mandarin

From Alok's professional profile.

Colleagues at First Rays Venture Partners

Amit Sridharan
General Partner at First Rays Venture Partners
Jenny Sohn
General Partner at First Rays Venture Partners

Network7

Ron PragidesScout
Vice President of Engineering at Trustly at PICUS CAPITAL
Akriti Dokania
Venture Partner at Ridge Ventures
Amit Sridharan
General Partner at First Rays Venture Partners
Jenny Sohn
General Partner at First Rays Venture Partners
Nate Jaret
General Partner at Maniv Mobility
Talia Rafaeli
Partner at KOMPAS VC
Yuval Cohen
Founder and Managing Partner at StageOne Ventures

Investors connected to Alok in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.

Frequently asked questions

Where does Alok Nandan work?
Alok Nandan is Managing Partner at First Rays Venture Partners and Founder at Blotout Startup.
What check size does Alok Nandan write?
Alok Nandan typically writes checks of $500K – $1M.
What companies did Alok Nandan found?
Alok Nandan founded Blotout Startup.

Same school

Also attended UCLA471

Ben HorowitzCo-founder & General Partner at Andreessen HorowitzRon ConwayFounder of SV AngelKirsten GreenFounder and Managing Partner at Forerunner VenturesPaul FieldingFinance & Operations at General CatalystMelody MaExecutive Assistant and Lead Receptionist at Trinity VenturesGizem CakilInvestor at OpenView Venture Partners

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Also attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management558

Jenny LeeSenior Managing Partner at Granite AsiaAndy FligelSenior Managing Director at Intel CapitalDavid Clark GuillermoInvestments at Impact America FundGiuseppe DonvitoPartner at P101 VenturesAntonio TurroniOperating Advisor at P101 VenturesJon TurowVenture Partner at Madrona Venture Group

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Also attended Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur118

Deep NisharInvestment Team at General CatalystSomnathTechnology Partner and Chief Data Scientist at Clear VenturesMoiz SaifeePartner, Analytics at Correlation VenturesIndra SinghalOperating Partner at EMERGENT VENTURESVasu MurthyCPO Fellow at Mighty CapitalAntra SaxenaAssociate at Kae Capital

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Shared employers

Also worked at Allstacks6

Asanka JayasuriyaPortfolio Support at 8VCChris JamesManaging Partner at Quadri VenturesAndrew DryliePrincipal at Quadri VenturesEric EngineerGeneral Partner at S3 VenturesJoe CurryPrincipal at S3 VenturesFiras RaoufCo-Founder and General Partner at Companyon Ventures

Also worked at Emergent Ventures7

Ankur JainManaging Partner at EMERGENT VENTURESAnupam RastogiManaging Partner at EMERGENT VENTURESNiha GottiparthyInvestor at EMERGENT VENTURESIndra SinghalOperating Partner at EMERGENT VENTURESKatie PassalacquaHead of Finance at EMERGENT VENTURESBen MorssOperations Associate at BIOSPRING PARTNERS

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Also worked at Tempo AI (acq. by SalesForce)2

Marc AverittCo-Founder, Managing Director at Okapi Venture CapitalNorman WinarskyInvestor at Relay Ventures

Also worked at Microsoft1,061

Reid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockGarry TanPresident & CEO of Y CombinatorNat FriedmanCo-lead of Meta Superintelligence Labs; co-founder of NFDGJavier SolteroSenior Venture Partner at Felicis VenturesViviana FagaGeneral Partner at Felicis VenturesWesley ChanInvestor at Felicis Ventures

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