Sahir Azam

Partner @ Index Ventures; Former CPO @ MongoDB

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2026
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Board Member
Jun 2026
Conduct’s mission is to make IT the innovation powerhouse of every company. Our agentic AI delivers an in-depth understanding of legacy enterprise software. For the first time ever, you can chat directly with your systems to resolve major business issues in days instead of months. We’re starting where it matters most: SAP, the OS of global business. Conduct makes the unmanageable, manageable. Setting the stage for the next era of productivity growth with AI-powered Enterprise System Intelligence.
Board Member
Nov 2025
LiveKit offers open source frameworks and a cloud platform for building voice, video, and physical AI agents.
Board Observer
Aug 2025
Fireworks is the fastest way to build, tune, and scale AI on open models. Ship production-ready AI in seconds on our globally distributed cloud infrastructure, optimized for your use case. Fireworks powers production workloads at companies like Uber, Doordash, Notion, and Cursor—delivering 15× faster speed, 4× lower latency, and 4× more concurrency than closed models.
Board Member
May 2024
Temporal develops and distributes the worlds leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industrys most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
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Apr 2024
FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.7+ based on standard Python type hints.
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Sep 2023
Metronome is the usage-based billing platform that helps companies launch products faster. Easily model your pricing today, iterate confidently tomorrow.
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Aug 2023
Programmable 🐍 remote compute 🔋 and data 📂 across environments 💻 and users 👩‍💻
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Feb 2023
From the team behind Pydantic, Logfire is a new type of observability platform built on the same belief as our open source library — that the most powerful tools can be easy to use.
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Jun 2022
Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Its customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. For more information, visit: https://www.chainguard.dev/
Board Member
Mar 2022
Observe – the AI-powered observability company – is reinventing how businesses detect anomalies, troubleshoot applications, and resolve incidents to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Only Observe eliminates silos of logs, metrics, and traces by storing all data in a single, cost-efficient data lake, analyzing all telemetry data using a single language, and providing access through a single, consistent, user interface. Observe’s AI-Powered Observability enables companies to resolve software incidents three times faster at one-third the cost. Customers such as Capital One, Dialpad AI, Top Golf and more trust Observe to turn their data into actionable insights. Investors include Capital One Ventures, Evolution Equity Partners, Madrona Venture Group, and Sutter Hill Ventures.
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Oct 2021
ClickHouse is a fast, open-source columnar database built for real-time data processing and analytics at scale. ClickHouse Cloud delivers the query speed and concurrency that applications demanding instant insight from large volumes of data require. As AI agents become more embedded in software, generating higher query volumes at tighter latency, ClickHouse provides a high-throughput, low-latency engine purpose-built for that workload.
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Jul 2021
At Windsurf, were rewriting the future of software development. As the creators of Windsurf Editor, the first agentic IDE, were using cutting-edge AI to build the modern coding superpower. We believe there are too many parts of the traditional coding workflow that are boring, tedious, or downright frustrating. From regurgitating boilerplate to poring through StackOverflow, we know YOU deserve better. So, our mission is clear: empower developers to dream bigger. Beyond manual tasks, were creating seamless flows to turn your ideas into code, all within an AI-collaborative environment. Ready to unlock your coding potential?
Investor
Jun 2021
Viam brings modern software engineering to robotics, with everything you need to build and run intelligent machines. Founded in 2020 by former MongoDB co-founder and CTO Eliot Horowitz, Viam is headquartered in New York City. Discover our full suite of products at viam.com/product/platform-overview Apply to one of our available positions at viam.com/careers
Angel Investor/Advisor
Jan 2020
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2026
Board Member
Jun 2026
Conduct’s mission is to make IT the innovation powerhouse of every company. Our agentic AI delivers an in-depth understanding of legacy enterprise software. For the first time ever, you can chat directly with your systems to resolve major business issues in days instead of months. We’re starting where it matters most: SAP, the OS of global business. Conduct makes the unmanageable, manageable. Setting the stage for the next era of productivity growth with AI-powered Enterprise System Intelligence.
2025
Board Member
Nov 2025
LiveKit offers open source frameworks and a cloud platform for building voice, video, and physical AI agents.
Partner
Aug 2025
Index Ventures partners with exceptional entrepreneurs – those with unique insight who are intrinsically driven to make their vision a reality. We help them turn their bold ideas into global businesses, and through the companies they build, have a long-lasting and positive impact on the world around us. Index-backed businesses are supported by an experienced team of investors, strategists, and an extensive global network built over three decades of startup investing. Working side-by-side through the scale up journey, we forge deep and long-lasting relationships with founders and their teams. The vast majority of these partnerships begin early in the company’s life, at Seed and Series A, and extend to IPO and beyond. Operating as one team, with feet firmly on both sides of the Atlantic – from London to Tel Aviv, and San Francisco to New York – we are an international team with a global mindset, with experience supporting founders wherever they emerge. When they succeed, they generate returns that in turn support Index’s investors, including non-profit foundations; education, healthcare and research endowments; and other impact-driven organizations.
Board Observer
Aug 2025
Fireworks is the fastest way to build, tune, and scale AI on open models. Ship production-ready AI in seconds on our globally distributed cloud infrastructure, optimized for your use case. Fireworks powers production workloads at companies like Uber, Doordash, Notion, and Cursor—delivering 15× faster speed, 4× lower latency, and 4× more concurrency than closed models.
2024
Board Member
May 2024
Temporal develops and distributes the worlds leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industrys most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
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