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Haystack

haystack.vc Direct investor

Haystack is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in software and technology startups. It typically invests $1M to $3M in initial rounds and can lead or participate.

Haystack is a venture capital firm headquartered in United States, founded in 2013. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in software, technology, consumer and commerce. Its stated cheque size is $1M to $3M in initial rounds.

“Backing outlier founders at the earliest stages.”

— Haystack, own website
Layer
Direct investor
Type
Venture capital
Stage
Seed – Series A
Headquarters
United States
Invests in
Silicon Valley, beyond
Sectors
software, technology, consumer, commerce, intelligent software, vertical software, hardware, frontier technology, developer tools, infrastructure, security, healthcare, life sciences
Cheque size
$1M to $3M in initial rounds
Founded
2013

Team, as Haystack publishes it

  • Semil Shah Founding Partner
  • Aashay Sanghvi Partner
  • Divya Dhulipala Principal

Names and roles exactly as listed on haystack.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.

Co-invests most often with

Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 60 co-investors found.

and 50 more — the graph.

Where this comes from

Every fact above was read from a page Haystack publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.

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Record 628 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high

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