Rohan Rahul Malhotra

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Principal at Banyan Seed Fund · Developer infrastructure

Banyan Seed Fund
Dallas, TX · CT (UTC-6)
9+ years experience
Princeton University
English
Investing
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Overview

Principal at Banyan Seed Fund, backing developer infrastructure companies. Led or co-led 34 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later. Jazz piano, badly.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in developer infrastructure
  • Questions about developer infrastructure
  • Second opinions on venture capital decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Decks without a clear ask
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Replies on weekends

Skills
developer toolsventure capitalopen source
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $1M cheques into pre-seed developer infrastructure in North America

Cheque size
$1M
Stages
Seed
Sectors
Developer infrastructure
Geographies
Global
Lead or follow
Follow
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Fundraising strategy for the next round

Usually the first cheque in. We reply to every founder.

Dallas, TX · remote OKopen sourceventure capitaldeveloper tools
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Nov 2025 - Present
    Banyan Seed Fund · 11 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
    • Sit on 5 boards.
  2. Enterprise Account Executive
    Feb 2023 - Nov 2025
    Twilio · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Shortened the public sector sales cycle from 12 months to 4.
    • Opened 4 new logos over $5 million ACV in the region.
  3. Regional Sales Director
    Dec 2020 - Feb 2023
    Intuit · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Built the partnerships team from 3 to 15 reps.
  4. Partnerships Manager
    Oct 2018 - Dec 2020
    Dropbox · 2 yr 2 mo · Contract · Dallas, TX
    • Built the healthcare team from 5 to 27 reps.
    • Signed 25 channel partners that now source 37% of pipeline.
  5. Enterprise Account Executive
    Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
    Apple · 1 yr · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Shortened the partnerships sales cycle from 12 months to 5.
    • Signed 6 channel partners that now source 19% of pipeline.

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Education

  1. Princeton University
    AB, Economics
    2012 - 2016

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