Yasmin Ayesha Naqvi

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Principal at Sandstone Ventures · AI applications

Sandstone Ventures
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
8+ years experience
VIT Vellore
English, Hindi, Telugu
Investing
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Overview

I invest in AI applications at Sandstone Ventures, usually at pre-seed and seed. Led or co-led 9 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later. Backed 57 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: BigBasket and Hindustan Unilever. Most at home with applied ML and product.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in AI applications
  • Questions about AI applications
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on product decisions
Please don't message about
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Fund-of-funds solicitations

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
venture capitalproductapplied ML
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $1M cheques into Series An AI applications in India

Cheque size
$1M
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
AI applications, AI applications
Geographies
MENA
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
10 business days
How I help
First enterprise customers and pricing

Typically lead or co-lead. Portfolio support on pricing and enterprise sales.

Hyderabad, Indiaapplied mlproductventure capital
Open

Experience

  1. Principal
    Jun 2023 - Present
    Sandstone Ventures · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Sit on 3 boards.
    • Backed 47 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Associate Product Manager
    Jul 2019 - Feb 2023
    BigBasket · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Ran 171 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Killed 6 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
  3. Principal Product Manager
    Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
    Hindustan Unilever · 9 mo · Contract · Hyderabad, India
    • Backed 60 founders at pre-seed and seed.

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Education

  1. VIT Vellore
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    2013 - 2017

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