Alok Nandan
InvestorManaging Partner at First Rays Venture Partners · Board director at Blotout Startup
San Francisco Bay Area
Writes $500K – $1M checks · typically $500K
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Paul FieldingunlockedAlok: together at UCLA (2004–2005)
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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
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Mandar ShindeExecutive Officer, Director
Experience
- First Rays Venture PartnersManaging Partner (CIO, CISO)current2020 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- DatabricksInvestorcurrent2023 — present
- AllstacksBoard Membercurrent2026 — present
- Backslash SecurityBoard Observercurrent2023 — present
- BlotoutBoard Membercurrent2022 — present
- Emergent VenturesPartner2016 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- Tempo AI (acq. by SalesForce)Director of Product Management2014 — 2016Menlo Park
- YuMe (NYSE)Group Product Manager2012 — 2014Redwood City, CA
- MicrosoftSenior PM2005 — 2012Redmond, Mountain View and Beijing
- UCLAGraduate Student Researcher2001 — 2005
- ToneThis Inc.Co-founder2003
- EntomoSoftware Engineer2002
- IntelSoftware Engineer2000
Skills & more
Management10Team Management1Strategy10Early Stage InvestmentBoard GovernanceDirectorshipBoard level experienceNon-Executive DirectorWireMock CloudProduct Management40Software Project Management15Program Management7
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Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareData MiningAlgorithmsMachine LearningDistributed SystemsHadoopAnalyticsSoftware DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringOnline AdvertisingDigital MediaLanguages English · Hindi · Mandarin
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Alok Nandan?
- 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.
- Where does Alok Nandan work?
- Alok Nandan is Managing Partner at First Rays Venture Partners and Board director at Blotout Startup.
- What check size does Alok Nandan write?
- Alok Nandan typically writes checks of $500K – $1M.
- Where did Alok Nandan go to school?
- Alok Nandan studied at UCLA (PhD, Computer Science); Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management (Executive Education Program, Marketing); Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering).
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