Ayush Prasad

Principal at Cedar Partners · Developer infrastructure · venture capital, open source

Cedar Partners

New Delhi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

5+ years experience

St. Xavier's College, Mumbai

English, Hindi

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Overview

Principal at Cedar Partners, backing developer infrastructure companies. Previously an operator for 9 years before investing. Previously at Intel. Former debater; now I argue with spreadsheets.

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Founders building in developer infrastructure
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venture capitaldeveloper toolsopen source

InvestingLooking to invest

closes in 3 months

Writing $2M cheques into seed developer infrastructure in India and SEA

Cheque size: $2M
Stages: Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors: Developer infrastructure, climate
Geographies: US and Europe
Lead or follow: Follow
Decision time: One meeting and a partner call
How I help: First enterprise customers and pricing

Typically lead or co-lead. We reply to every founder.

New Delhi, India · remote OKopen sourcedeveloper toolsventure capital

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Experience

Principal
Feb 2025 - Present
Cedar Partners · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
- Sit on 3 boards.
- Led or co-led 18 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
Staff ML Engineer
Oct 2021 - Feb 2025
Intel · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
- Cut forecast error from 28% to 12% across 1448 SKUs.

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Education

St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
B.A., Engineering
2017 - 2021

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