Asad Khaliq

Founding Partner at Acrew Capital

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 20 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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2025
Keycard is on a mission to redefine machine identity for the Internet—helping developers seamlessly connect people, agents, and services across networks, clouds, and applications. As AI-driven workflows grow more complex, Keycard’s dynamic, identity-based credentials ensure every agent and service operates with precise, contextual permissions. We’re building a global identity network backed by open protocols—empowering distributed systems to adapt, scale, and maintain cryptographically verifiable trust. By rethinking secret management from first principles, we aim to delight developers, meet the performance needs of platform engineers, and set a new standard for cloud-era security in an inclusive, collaborative environment.
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2025
The future of AI agents is built on experience - not instruction. High-fidelity simulation environments allow agents to learn by doing. Veris is an end-to-end platform for teaching AI agents how to perform enterprise tasks.
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2025
Humanix detects and responds to social engineering attacks targeting your people—across voice, chat, and email—in real-time. Security teams protecting help desks, finance teams, executives, and service operations use Humanix to stop manipulation, deception, and impersonation before breaches happen. THE PROBLEM: Social engineering is the #1 breach vector. 76% of breaches succeed by targeting humans, not systems. Organizations lose $11B+ annually. Yet security teams have no way to detect these attacks as they happen. The only response? More training. More blame. Hope that people remember their training under pressure. People arent the problem. Theyre the target. And they deserve better protection. HOW HUMANIX WORKS: We use conversational AI trained on human psychology to analyze natural language across your communication channels. We detect the linguistic and psychological patterns that make social engineering work: urgency and pressure tactics, authority claims and impersonation, deception and policy evasion, behavioral anomalies. When we detect an attack, we alert your security team in real-time through your existing tools—SIEM, SOAR, ticketing systems—with full context and recommended actions. You can respond during the attack, not after the damage is done. We integrate with the systems you already use: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Okta, and more. API-driven. No agents. No endpoint installs. Typically live in under an hour. WHO WE PROTECT: → Help desks facing credential theft and account compromise → Finance teams targeted for payment fraud and BEC → Executives vulnerable to impersonation attacks → Service desks requiring policy compliance This is Human Threat Detection and Response—the same detection and response capabilities for attacks on humans that security teams have for attacks on systems.
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2025
The General Intelligence Company is building highly-capable ai agents to run entire businesses autonomously.
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2023
Ditto is the only mobile database with built-in edge device connectivity and resiliency. Drive consistent revenue and build flexible operations at the edge without WiFi, Servers, or Cloud. Sell a product, deliver a service, and conduct operations anywhere without worrying about connectivity.
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2022
Prisma® AIRS is the world’s most comprehensive AI security platform. Its natively integrated and uses best-in-class security to secure the entire AI attack lifecycle for every AI app, agent, models and dataset your business uses or builds. It empowers organizations to deploy AI bravely knowing that whatever they build is secure.
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2022
Vanta is the #1 Agentic Trust Platform that helps businesses earn and prove trust. From startup to enterprise, Vanta is trusted by 15,000+ customers, including Atlassian, Duolingo, Icelandair, Ramp and Synthesia, to automate compliance, manage risk, and prove trust continuously—all from a single, AI-powered platform. - Automated Compliance: Automate evidence gathering with continuous monitoring to get you compliant and keep you secure. - Streamlined Audits: Collaborate seamlessly with auditors to help get you audit-ready, fast and hassle-free. - Risk Management: Centralize your IT risk to make informed decisions, whether you’re bringing your own program or building one from scratch. - Vendor Risk Management: Streamline vendor security reviews with AI-powered analysis and continuous monitoring of vendor attack surfaces. - Trust Center: Share your security and compliance posture with buyers with a public-facing Trust Center, and tie your security program to revenue. - Questionnaire Automation: Streamline security questionnaires by having Vanta AI take the first pass for you—so all you need to do is review, approve, and submit. - 375+ integrations: A market-leading ecosystem of over 375 integrations that powers 1,200+ automated, hourly tests, giving you continuous visibility into your compliance posture. - Vanta AI: Supercharge your team with AI-powered control mapping, evidence checks, questionnaire automation, and custom code snippets to remediate failing tests. Founded in 2018, Vanta has customers in 58 countries with offices in Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco and Sydney. Investors include Sequoia, Wellington, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, J.P. Morgan, Atlassian Ventures and CrowdStrike Ventures. Vanta has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Inc.’s Best Workplaces, and Forbes’ Best Startup Employer lists.
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2021
At HYCU, we believe that every business should be safe. Our mission is to build a safer world. With our data protection as a service platform, we make it easy for you to move your data freely, easily, and safely without the burden of managing and scaling backup infrastructure. HYCU is: Built for your tech stack, today and tomorrow​ Engineered to ​ be shockingly ​simple Designed for the ​people behind the​ data​ As an award-winning and recognized visionary in the industry, HYCU solutions eliminate complexity, risk, and the high cost of legacy-based solutions, providing data protection simplicity to make the world safer. With an industry-leading NPS score of 91, customers experience frictionless, cost-effective data protection, anywhere, everywhere. Interested in learning more? Check us out at www.hycu.com and follow us on Twitter @HYCUinc Looking to make a difference with #TeamPurple? Check our openings: https://www.hycu.com/about/careers
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2021
We build software to help the world see and solve anything as a system. System Inc. is a Public Benefit Corporation.
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2021
At Bazaar, we are making everyday life more affordable and effortless. Our e-commerce and financial services platform provides everyday low pricing on all essentials for your home and businesses, with next day delivery, an unmatched customer experience and flexible payment terms. Bazaar was founded in 2020 and has since grown into a team of over 400 colleagues with unparalleled ambition to create Pakistan’s next big story. Here, it’s always day 1.
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2020
Edge Impulse offers the latest in machine learning tooling, enabling all enterprises to build smarter edge products. Our technology empowers developers to bring more AI products to market faster, and helps enterprise teams rapidly develop industry-specific solutions in weeks instead of years. Edge Impulse provides powerful automation and low-code capabilities to make it easier to build valuable datasets and develop advanced AI with streaming data. With over 190,000 developers, and partnerships with the top silicon vendors, Edge Impulse delivers a seamless integration experience to validate and deploy with confidence across the largest hardware ecosystem.
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2020
Ketch is redefining responsible data use for the AI era. The Ketch Data Permissioning Platform is the new layer of business technology that helps brands collect, control, and activate permissioned, privacy-safe data across every device, system, and third-party app. Brands around the world use Ketch to simplify privacy and consent operations, increase revenue from advertising, data, and AI initiatives, and build trust with customers and partners. To learn more, visit ketch.com.
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2020
Stealth
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2020
The AI Performance Company. We work with enterprise teams to monitor, measure, and improve machine learning models for better results across accuracy, explainability, and fairness. We are deeply passionate about building technology to make AI work for everyone. Arthur is an equal opportunity employer and we believe strongly in "front-end ethics": building a sustainable company and industry where strong performance and a positive human impact are inextricably linked. Were hiring! Take a look at our open roles at arthur.ai/careers.
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2019
Observable helps teams deepen understanding by making data easier to see and explore. With powerful tools for visualizing data through code, UI, or AI, we help teams reveal insights, build trust, and spark collaboration. We built and maintain open-source tools like D3 and Observable Plot. Now, we’re shaping the future of data analysis and visualization.
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2025
Keycard is on a mission to redefine machine identity for the Internet—helping developers seamlessly connect people, agents, and services across networks, clouds, and applications. As AI-driven workflows grow more complex, Keycard’s dynamic, identity-based credentials ensure every agent and service operates with precise, contextual permissions. We’re building a global identity network backed by open protocols—empowering distributed systems to adapt, scale, and maintain cryptographically verifiable trust. By rethinking secret management from first principles, we aim to delight developers, meet the performance needs of platform engineers, and set a new standard for cloud-era security in an inclusive, collaborative environment.
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2025
The future of AI agents is built on experience - not instruction. High-fidelity simulation environments allow agents to learn by doing. Veris is an end-to-end platform for teaching AI agents how to perform enterprise tasks.
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2025
Humanix detects and responds to social engineering attacks targeting your people—across voice, chat, and email—in real-time. Security teams protecting help desks, finance teams, executives, and service operations use Humanix to stop manipulation, deception, and impersonation before breaches happen. THE PROBLEM: Social engineering is the #1 breach vector. 76% of breaches succeed by targeting humans, not systems. Organizations lose $11B+ annually. Yet security teams have no way to detect these attacks as they happen. The only response? More training. More blame. Hope that people remember their training under pressure. People arent the problem. Theyre the target. And they deserve better protection. HOW HUMANIX WORKS: We use conversational AI trained on human psychology to analyze natural language across your communication channels. We detect the linguistic and psychological patterns that make social engineering work: urgency and pressure tactics, authority claims and impersonation, deception and policy evasion, behavioral anomalies. When we detect an attack, we alert your security team in real-time through your existing tools—SIEM, SOAR, ticketing systems—with full context and recommended actions. You can respond during the attack, not after the damage is done. We integrate with the systems you already use: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Okta, and more. API-driven. No agents. No endpoint installs. Typically live in under an hour. WHO WE PROTECT: → Help desks facing credential theft and account compromise → Finance teams targeted for payment fraud and BEC → Executives vulnerable to impersonation attacks → Service desks requiring policy compliance This is Human Threat Detection and Response—the same detection and response capabilities for attacks on humans that security teams have for attacks on systems.
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2025
The General Intelligence Company is building highly-capable ai agents to run entire businesses autonomously.
2023
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2023
Ditto is the only mobile database with built-in edge device connectivity and resiliency. Drive consistent revenue and build flexible operations at the edge without WiFi, Servers, or Cloud. Sell a product, deliver a service, and conduct operations anywhere without worrying about connectivity.
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