Alwyn Fernandes

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Principal at Saltwater Capital · Developer infrastructure · venture capital, developer tools

Saltwater Capital
Thiruvananthapuram, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
7+ years experience
IIT Kanpur
English, Hindi, Malayalam
Investing
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Overview

7 years around startups; now investing in developer infrastructure. Backed 11 founders at pre-seed and seed. Previously an operator for 11 years before investing. Before that: Morgan Stanley and Intuit. Most at home with open source and venture capital.

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  • Founders building in developer infrastructure
  • Questions about developer infrastructure
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Decks without a clear ask
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Skills
open sourceventure capitaldeveloper tools
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $500k cheques into Series A developer infrastructure in LatAm

Cheque size
$500k
Stages
Series A
Sectors
Developer infrastructure
Geographies
MENA
Lead or follow
Lead
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
First enterprise customers and pricing

Usually the first cheque in. Portfolio support on pricing and enterprise sales.

Thiruvananthapuram, India · remote OKdeveloper toolsventure capitalopen source
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Nov 2023 - Present
    Saltwater Capital · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Backed 20 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 10 years before investing.
    • Led or co-led 11 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Software Engineer
    Oct 2021 - Nov 2023
    Morgan Stanley · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Wrote the venture capital service that now handles 25 million requests a day.
  3. Senior Software Engineer
    Oct 2019 - Oct 2021
    Intuit · 2 yr · Full-time · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 37 product teams use to ship changes safely.

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Education

  1. IIT Kanpur
    B.Tech, Engineering
    2015 - 2019

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