Pooja Kavya Bhatt

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Principal at Pinecrest Seed Fund · B2B SaaS · venture capital, go-to-market

Pinecrest Seed Fund
Pittsburgh, PA · ET (UTC-5)
8+ years experience
UT Austin
English, Spanish
Investing
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Overview

Principal at Pinecrest Seed Fund, backing B2B SaaS companies. Sit on 3 boards. Backed 38 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: Airbnb and Salesforce. Most at home with venture capital and go-to-market.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in B2B SaaS
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Questions about B2B SaaS
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • SEO and link-building offers

Replies on weekday evenings

Skills
go-to-marketpricingventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $100k cheques into pre-seed B2B SaaS in North America

Cheque size
$100k
Stages
Seed
Sectors
B2B SaaS
Geographies
LatAm
Lead or follow
Follow
Decision time
About two weeks
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Happy to follow a strong lead. Decisions within 1 weeks.

Pittsburgh, PA · remote OKventure capitalgo-to-marketpricing
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Jun 2025 - Present
    Pinecrest Seed Fund · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Sit on 5 boards.
    • Previously an operator for 6 years before investing.
    • Led or co-led 34 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Finance Manager
    Mar 2023 - Jun 2025
    Airbnb · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Closed the books in 6 days, down from 13.
  3. Senior Financial Analyst
    Jan 2020 - Mar 2023
    Salesforce · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Saved $1 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  4. Finance Manager
    Oct 2018 - Jan 2020
    Meta · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Saved $4 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 2% for 5 straight quarters.

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Education

  1. UT Austin
    BS, Computer Science
    2014 - 2018

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