The Capital Stack Aashay Sanghvi of Haystack VC on breaking into venture capital, attractive founder heuristics, and 2022 M&A frenzy.
Aashay Sanghvi is a Principal at Haystack, an early stage venture capital firm. Haystack is an early investor in companies like Instacart, DoorDash, Figma, Carta, and many more. Aashay joined Haystack out of undergrad at Harvard and has helped spearhead the fund’s investments in companies like Vectorized, Buf, and Higo. Aashay is currently based in New York City.
Aashay first got interested in tech right before college after reading “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel in 2015. While at Harvard, he emailed Venture Capital firms with his harvard.edu email address and met several people for coffee. In fall 2017 at the start of his junior year, he pitched some seed deals to help a couple entrepreneurs get funded.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to identify a good opportunity
- Where to find the smartest engineers and product builders
Favorite Quote:
“Does this person inspire confidence in me? People who are very specific about the goals they are trying to accomplish are very rare. Specificity is one thing I pay attention to now.” - Aashay Sanghvi
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