Founding Partner
HaystackCheck size: $1M-$3M initial investments; Haystack can lead or participate.
Semil Shah invests or supports investments through Haystack's published strategy: Back outlier software and technology founders at the earliest stages of company formation with flexible $1M-$3M initial investments.
Outlier founders starting consequential software and technology companies before the opportunity is obvious.
The firm focuses on the initial chapters of technology-company formation; later-stage and nontechnology opportunities are less aligned.
Explain why this founder is an outlier, the non-obvious insight, earliest product or customer learning and what $1M-$3M unlocks.
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Semil Shah is listed by Haystack as Founding Partner. Founded Haystack in 2013 and made early investments in DoorDash, Instacart, Figma, HashiCorp and Applied Intuition.