Deepak J.

Builder ; Technology Investor ; Engineer at Heart (MIT/IITM alum)

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
10
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4
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4
Mid stage
0
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10y
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Board Observer
Mar 2020
Hey there! We’re Banzai. Our products reach millions of users every year to help marketers drive more revenue through better events, webinars, content, and data. Ready to be the pipeline hero?
Ser A Lead Investor
2020
We are a human-centered robotics company. Our mission is to make technical advances towards robots and humans working together side by side, with an emphasis on human-centric design. Diligent Robotics is developing a suite of artificial intelligence that enables robots to collaborate with and adapt to humans in everyday environments. Our service robots are designed to participate and work together with teams of humans. Our first product is a hospital service robot that can assist clinical staff with logistical tasks, allowing them to spend more of their time on direct patient care, improving patient satisfaction, quality of service, and safety.
Ser C Investor
2019
Zūm has reimagined student transportation— managing every vehicle, driver, passenger, parent, and ride on a single platform. We’re growing fast and looking for super-smart folks motivated to fix the nations largest mass transportation system and make a real difference for students, schools, drivers, parents and caregivers. If fixing an antiquated system hidden in plain sight excites you, drop us a note at apply@ridezum.com today.
Board Observer
Jan 2018
Vector Launch’s primary mission is to solve complex national security challenges facing the intelligence community, US Department of Defense and other government agencies.
Board Observer
Aug 2017
Haven—It’s a new way, a better way, and a faster way to coordinate global trade. We make logistics management collaborative and easy. One click access to all your rates, instantly find and compare freight rates for your trades, manage end-to-end bookings for any carrier, track shipments in real-time and receive predictive delay alerts, so you can react faster to critical shipments.
Board Observer
Aug 2017
Haven—It’s a new way, a better way, and a faster way to coordinate global trade. We make logistics management collaborative and easy. One click access to all your rates, instantly find and compare freight rates for your trades, manage end-to-end bookings for any carrier, track shipments in real-time and receive predictive delay alerts, so you can react faster to critical shipments.
Ser A Lead Investor
2017
ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space. We deliver persistent monitoring capabilities to detect and respond to changes in any location on Earth. ICEYE owns the worlds largest and most advanced SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation. To our customers we provide intelligence with unmatched quality, latency and revisit times, in any weather, day or night. To governments who choose to operate their own constellation we provide this proven capability as a sovereign system. ICEYE-built constellations serve customers in defence and intelligence, environmental monitoring, insurance and emergency management. We enable fast decisions that contribute to a safer future. Founded and headquartered in Finland, ICEYE operates globally with over 1,000 employees. We’re a growing international team of builders. Join us.
Board Observer
Nov 2016
Sight Machine is the data platform for manufacturing, unlocking plant data to help manufacturers improve profitability, productivity, and sustainability. Using Sight Machine’s common Data Foundation for operations and analysis, manufacturers can make better, faster decisions for improving production performance. Sight Machine’s streaming platform continuously analyzes all assets, data sources, and processes, from machine to enterprise level.
Ser A Investor and CEO Advisor
2016
PayJoy is a mission-first credit provider dedicated to helping under-served customers in emerging markets to achieve financial stability and success. Our patented technology for secured credit provides an on-ramp for new customers to enter the credit system. Through PayJoy’s point-of-sale financing and credit offerings, customers gain access to a modern quality of life. PayJoy’s credit also allows our customers to seize opportunities as micro-entrepreneurs, and acts as insurance for tough times. Through our cutting-edge machine learning, data science, and anti-fraud AI, we have served nearly 20 million customers and lent nearly $4B across 9 countries while achieving solid profitability and growth.
Ser A Investor
2016
Nauto is the leader in AI-powered safety and operations excellence for commercial fleets. Nauto simplifies day-to-day operations by consolidating driver and fleet safety, risk, and core telematics in a driver-friendly platform. Nautos real-time safety solution with multi-risk fusion, built upon more than 3 billion AI-processed driving miles, delivers superior outcomes, and provides pedestrian, bicyclist, and motorcyclist detection and alerting. With Nauto, fleets are able to foster a culture of performance excellence as demonstrated by reduced collisions, costs, risk, and driver training and churn. Nauto is trusted by 800 fleets worldwide and customers across multiple industry verticals have seen up to 80% collision reduction.
Experience · 14 entries
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Investments (10)
Board (5)
2020
Strategic Advisor to CEO
Sep 2020
This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.
Board Observer
Mar 2020
Hey there! We’re Banzai. Our products reach millions of users every year to help marketers drive more revenue through better events, webinars, content, and data. Ready to be the pipeline hero?
Ser A Lead Investor
2020
We are a human-centered robotics company. Our mission is to make technical advances towards robots and humans working together side by side, with an emphasis on human-centric design. Diligent Robotics is developing a suite of artificial intelligence that enables robots to collaborate with and adapt to humans in everyday environments. Our service robots are designed to participate and work together with teams of humans. Our first product is a hospital service robot that can assist clinical staff with logistical tasks, allowing them to spend more of their time on direct patient care, improving patient satisfaction, quality of service, and safety.
2019
Ser C Investor
2019
Zūm has reimagined student transportation— managing every vehicle, driver, passenger, parent, and ride on a single platform. We’re growing fast and looking for super-smart folks motivated to fix the nations largest mass transportation system and make a real difference for students, schools, drivers, parents and caregivers. If fixing an antiquated system hidden in plain sight excites you, drop us a note at apply@ridezum.com today.
2018
Board Observer
Jan 2018
Vector Launch’s primary mission is to solve complex national security challenges facing the intelligence community, US Department of Defense and other government agencies.
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