Vipin Chamakkala
@V1P1N
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Working with forward thinking executives & top startups to level up the enterprise @sequoia. previously an investor @work_bench.
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2008
Very pumped for @steipete to open up #ClawCon here @frontiertower in SF. OpenClaw is… genuinely the most impressive thing I’ve seen since GPT first came out.
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Roses wilt, context windows don’t!
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So excited to partner with @metalbear on their $12.5M seed alongside @TLV_Partners and @TQVentures🐻 @Aviramyh @EBukchin & team are deeply technical and have built a DevOps platform that lets team ship code at the pace of AI🚀 More on why I invested👇 https://t.co/Xz7HTyronx
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🤖🔒Amazing AI x Security panel at Connected Stack! ⚡Varun @EndorLabs: AI will remediate sec issues 🔍Filip @VerkadaHQ: AI search = superpowers 🙌Isaac @semgrep: bye-bye false positive fatigue 🕵️Rich @vezainc: what “identities” are in the agent era Huge 👏 to @trueventures
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Today, we're excited to announce our latest fundraise and launch of our new product, @gofordispatch. 217 days ago, we asked ourselves if load boards, our core business, would exist in 5 years with AI. The answer was no.
Today, we're excited to announce our raise of $16M and the launch of @gofordispatch, an AI-powered tool designed to help carriers and brokers book loads faster.
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My wife @robby_mtf didn’t just raise a $22M fund. She built MTF to back the ones who don’t fit the mold—because she never did either. Conviction over consensus. Raw edge over polish. Hustle over everything. This is what real venture looks like. 👉
upstartsmedia.com
Modern Technical Fund founder Amanda Robson embodies a startup zeitgeist that favors technical founders and an always-on, fly-anywhere approach. Now, she's raised a $22 million fund to back them, too.
Exclusive: In a "brutal" fundraising environment, emerging manager face an uphill battle. For Amanda Robson, known as Robby, the answer was two-fold: the power of community 🤝 and a relentlessly high-energy approach ⚡️ Now she's raised a $22M debut fund for her VC firm MTF.
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Heading to #RSA? Here’s where the puck is headed in cybersecurity with some of the most exciting areas where first mover founders are building incredible solutions, by @amanda_robs at Modern Technical Fund @mtf_vc
#RSAC #RSA2025 @RSAConference
In security, giants show up after tech shifts Cloud (2006)→Wiz (2020) SOC 2 (2010)→Drata (2021) DevOps (2008)→Snyk (2015) AI’s moving faster than any shift before—bigger attack surface & smarter attacks 4 areas I want to see startups: Full post - https://t.co/SNlYkXGg4V
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In security, giants show up after tech shifts Cloud (2006)→Wiz (2020) SOC 2 (2010)→Drata (2021) DevOps (2008)→Snyk (2015) AI’s moving faster than any shift before—bigger attack surface & smarter attacks 4 areas I want to see startups: Full post - https://t.co/SNlYkXGg4V
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So proud of my better half @amanda_robs — not only did she build this site, but she’s launched a fund backing early-stage technical founders with all the key features that matter. Community & GTM focused, founder-first, and beautifully done. Can’t wait to see you crush it!
Introducing @mtf_vc (now online) ✨ Oh, and let's normalize anti-fluff VC websites 💁♀️ 👉
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I've been waiting for AI to disrupt the traditional BI market with a "talk to your data" product for a long time. @RamaswmySridhar told us about how @SnowflakeDB is using system design and engineering to bring "talk-to-your-data" LLM accuracy from 45% (out of the box) to 90%.
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When I worked at @VMware almost two decades ago, we talked a lot about #backup. And when I met @ofirlich for the first time, my question was: "How is backup possibly not solved in 2024"?
sequoiacap.com
Backup solutions are critical—and behind the times. Now Ofir, Gonen and Ron are bringing this massive market into the future.
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Most of my "obvious" investments haven't panned out. Teams with shiny backgrounds. Competitive round dynamics. Going after an apparent market opportunity. Alpha comes from the non-obvious tailwind, or a team that look atypical. And from taking risks other VCs aren't willing to.
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1/ my partners @sequoia like to tell a story about how we had this brilliant SaaS thesis that led us to Fred Luddy, founder of @ServiceNow... but the truth is that we pinged him because it was a company, and my job was to find companies. here is the actual CRM record, starting
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1/ Little did we know when we partnered with @ServiceNow how important this small detail in our original investment memo would become. It led to one of the most unique stories of my career and an incredible journey for the ServiceNow team.
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ServiceNow is a $170B company that almost nobody has heard of This is the incredible backstory into how my partner @gradypb used sheer hustle to invest in the company But of course none of this would matter if Fred Luddy and the @ServiceNow team weren’t legendary builders
1/ my partners @sequoia like to tell a story about how we had this brilliant SaaS thesis that led us to Fred Luddy, founder of @ServiceNow... but the truth is that we pinged him because it was a company, and my job was to find companies. here is the actual CRM record, starting
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In the Season 2 premiere of Crucible Moments from @Sequoia, we spoke to @fred_luddy and Frank Slootman about @ServiceNow’s hard-won path to becoming a category-defining company, and how they nearly made a $150B+ mistake by selling too early. Listen now:
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Crucible Moments · Episode
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Listen to an all new episode of Training Data feature @SierraPlatform co-founder @claybavor Available here or wherever you listen to podcasts: YouTube: https://t.co/08Zg4Vnd9w Spotify:
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Training Data · Episode
Conversational AI agents are transforming customer service, but what does it take to ensure that they’re able deal with complex issues, adhere to nuanced policies, reflect a brand’s tone and voice, and do all of that safely and reliably? On a new episode of Training Data
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