Hello World. I am Arnav Sahu. I work at Y Combinator, a Bay-Area based venture capital firm, where I help lead our venture growth investing practice. Y Combinator has invested in several leading startups such as Airbnb, OpenAI, Coinbase, DoorDash, Stripe, Gusto, Deel.

I have worked with some special founders and know what great looks like. I previously founded a fintech app, BondGrid. 

Previously, I was an investor at Spark Capital, a venture capital firm in the Bay Area. Prior to that, I worked at Cisco and AppDynamics, and was an investor at Blackstone, one of the most successful investment firms in history. I graduated from Cornell University and grew up in India. 

My journey to the US was made possible by a generous scholarship from Ratan Tata - which I am eternally grateful for. The yellow zero sign above is from cricket - "zero not out" - it indicates when a batter is about to face the first ball - which is how I approach my life. No matter what, I always have a Day One mentality. 

I came from humble beginnings and have been fortunate to work closely with some special founders, colleagues, mentors. Some of the things I learnt from people I have worked with: Garry Tan (how to think really big / be formidable), Ali Rowghani (how to think and communicate clearly), Anu Hariharan (how to get to the ground truth faster), Simon Lu (how to be kind), my parents and my sister (how to work super-hard), and my wife (how to be grateful). 

I don't underestimate myself and don't underestimate anybody else, no matter who they are - and that's probably my greatest strength. 

Some of the startups I have invested in and work with, that you might have heard of: 

- Zepto (Grocery delivery & India's fast growing consumer company)
- Posthog (Open-source product analytics & serve on the Board)
- Fivetran (Data warehouse integration)
- Mattermost (Open-source chat & serve on the Board)
- Scale AI (AI data labeling)
- Replicate (AI model hosting)
- Rippling (HR and IT Platform)
- Hashicorp (Devops & went public)
- Salt Security (API Security)
- Vanta (Compliance)
- BuildBuddy (Infra for Bazel)
- Secoda (Data cataloging)
- Shuttle (Infra for Rust)
- Clara (angel, Corporate spend management for LATAM)
- Pomelo (angel, Fintech infra for LATAM)
- Rapyd (Payments API)
- Ada (Customer support)
- Pylon (angel, Customer support)
- Porter (next-gen Heroku)
- Swiftsku (Toast for C-stores)
- Opsberry (AI-powered identity platform)