Ajit Deshpande

Head of Marketing, BDR, & Partnerships at Blockaid | IIT Bombay; Stanford; Berkeley

📍 Redwood City, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor
Feb 2019
Our mission is to make global trade so easy that there will be more of it.
Seed Investor
Nov 2018
Squadcast is the Only integrated platform that unites on-call alerting and incident management along with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) workflows under one hood and, in turn, automates human tasks efficiently. Our goal is to be the most user-friendly incident management platform helping engineers do on-call scheduling and incident response, the SRE way. Over the last few years, we have been diligently building and learning how to make alerting & on-call management more intuitive at a reactive level and automate SRE workflows at a proactive level. Our approach to long-term reliability, by rapidly evolving the way incident management is carried out, has resonated well with DevOps/SRE/IT teams globally. Through our platform, we continue to demonstrate to companies how easy it is to adopt SRE practices which in turn helps them improve their incident resolution metrics and, ultimately, the reliability of their systems.
Angel Investor
Jul 2017
This isn’t just another rental company. We’re elevating the future of furniture by replacing the commitment of ownership with a culture of sharing in a way that’s curated, convenient, and sustainable. As seen in TechCrunch, Vogue, The New York Times & more.
early stageFurniture
Seed Investor
Apr 2017
Building stronger relationships at work—from anywhere. Connecting folks around the #watercooler, through #virtualcoffee, #birthday celebrations, and more. Were hiring! View open roles and apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/donut
Experience · 8 entries
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Investments (5)
2026
Head of Marketing, BDR, & Partnerships
Feb 2026
Blockaid is the onchain security platform trusted by chains, protocols, wallets, exchanges, banks, and digital asset managers to understand and secure what matters most. Our platform provides unmatched visibility from direct integrations with the most used web3 wallets, plus internet-wide monitoring that detects threats before they reach users. Not only does this give us the most comprehensive coverage of any security provider, but the more pre-transaction, onchain, offchain, and threat intelligence data our system sees, the more our models improve. This flywheel effect has made us the platform of choice for industry leaders like Coinbase, Kraken, MetaMask, Uniswap, World App, and Stellar—as well as traditional institutions and fintechs.
2019
Investor
Feb 2019
Our mission is to make global trade so easy that there will be more of it.
2018
Seed Investor
Nov 2018
Squadcast is the Only integrated platform that unites on-call alerting and incident management along with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) workflows under one hood and, in turn, automates human tasks efficiently. Our goal is to be the most user-friendly incident management platform helping engineers do on-call scheduling and incident response, the SRE way. Over the last few years, we have been diligently building and learning how to make alerting & on-call management more intuitive at a reactive level and automate SRE workflows at a proactive level. Our approach to long-term reliability, by rapidly evolving the way incident management is carried out, has resonated well with DevOps/SRE/IT teams globally. Through our platform, we continue to demonstrate to companies how easy it is to adopt SRE practices which in turn helps them improve their incident resolution metrics and, ultimately, the reliability of their systems.
2017
Angel Investor
Jul 2017
This isn’t just another rental company. We’re elevating the future of furniture by replacing the commitment of ownership with a culture of sharing in a way that’s curated, convenient, and sustainable. As seen in TechCrunch, Vogue, The New York Times & more.
early stageFurniture
Various
Investments
Apr 2017
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