Saqib E. Awan

Founder & Managing Director

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2026
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Jun 2026
Arcade.dev is the action runtime for enterprise AI agents. We enforce your security and governance policies on every action, execute reliably across every business system, and govern your agents from a single control plane. Configure once and use any model, framework, and client. Deploy the first agent the same way you deploy the hundredth. Were proud to announce our recent $60 million Series A, led by SYN Ventures, with strategic investment from Morgan Stanley and Wipro Ventures. Check out our profile in the Wall Street Journal for more on how were solving the hardest problem in enterprise AI right now and why we are the team to solve it (see our Featured post).
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Nov 2025
AI is now your most important web visitor. As LLMs increasingly answer questions on behalf of humans, your website’s primary audience is no longer people—it’s the AI agents deciding what gets seen, trusted, and chosen. Scrunch is the AI Customer Experience platform built for this shift. Scrunch helps brands monitor and benchmark their presence in AI search, uncover content and citation gaps, and deliver AI-ready website experiences that shape the way brands are discovered (and chosen) on AI platforms.
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Aug 2025
Factory is an AI research lab, bringing autonomy to software engineering with Droids.
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Apr 2025
AI-native security for agentic applications, built from the ground up with fine-tuned models to protect and secure every layer of your agentic AI stack. Not just the prompt layer.
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Mar 2025
At WisdomAI we believe data drives decisions, better. We’re putting data insights at the fingertips of every employee.
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Nov 2024
Databahn.ai is redefining how enterprises manage the explosion of security and operational data in the AI era. Our AI-powered data pipeline and fabric platform helps organizations securely collect, enrich, orchestrate, and optimize enterprise data—including security, application, observability, and IoT/OT telemetry—for analytics, automation, and AI. With native support for over 500 integrations and built-in enrichment capabilities, Databahn streamlines fragmented data workflows and reduces SIEM and infrastructure costs from day one. The platform requires no specialist training, enabling security and IT teams to extract insights in real time and adapt quickly to new demands. Weve helped Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies reduce data processing costs by over 60% and automate more than 80% of their data engineering workloads. Our founding team brings decades of experience in cybersecurity and infrastructure, having previously managed environments ingesting more than 12 petabytes of data per day. That deep domain expertise informs our bold, opinionated approach to solving one of the biggest pain points in enterprise infrastructure: how to unify and act on fragmented, fast-growing data streams. Purpose-built for scale, speed, and simplicity, Databahn replaces patchwork stacks with a single intuitive solution that accelerates time to value and turns security data from a cost center into a strategic asset.
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Sep 2024
Revefi has disrupted the cloud data warehouse operations with a zero touch copilot & purpose built GenAI powered data operations bot that converges data quality, observability, spend, usage and performance management and to be a multiplier for data engineering teams. Revefis proprietary intelligence layer delivers AI-powered insights, enabling rapid detection, 5-whys and resolution of critical data related issues. And further complements with an actions framework where it manages your Snowflake instance on your behalf balancing performance & spend. Revefi empowers data teams to optimize ROI, streamline costs and elevate their data observability, operations and performance through an integrated zero-touch platform. To learn more, please visit revefi.com
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Jun 2024
Luminance is the pioneer in Legal-Grade™ AI, wherever computer meets contract. Using a Mixture of Experts approach - known as the “Panel of Judges” - Luminance brings specialist AI to every touchpoint a business has with its contracts, from generation to negotiation and post-execution analysis. Developed by AI experts from the University of Cambridge, Luminances technology is trusted by 700+ customers in 70+ countries, from AMD and the LG Group to Hitachi, BBC Studios and Staples. The company closed a $75 million Series C in early 2025 and is backed by world-leading investors including Point72 Private Investments and March Capital. Luminance is hiring across the board. Get in touch to find out more.
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Feb 2024
We are an AI-powered identity security platform for human and non-human identities. We automate identity permissions and lifecycle using context, risk, and behavioral analysis and help your business protect against identity breaches. Our founding team consists of serial entrepreneurs and seasoned executives who have led successful startups and have a proven track record of creating disruptive technologies in Cloud Infrastructure, Security, and Networking. We are funded by a top-tier Silicon Valley VC firm.
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Sep 2023
Flip AI rationalizes observability data to make sense of critical incidents. Our large language models (LLM) can understand and reason through any and all observability data, including unstructured data, so that you can rapidly restore software and systems to health.
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Feb 2023
Lightrun is an AI-native reliability engineering platform that enables engineering teams and AI agents to autonomously prevent and remediate software issues across the SDLC, from code to production. Lightrun AI SRE closes the gap between AI-generated code velocity and reliable production systems by generating live runtime context at the moment of failure. It proves root cause and validates fixes without code changes, redeployments, or restarts.
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Aug 2022
A rationalized vendor security due diligence platform. VISO TRUST puts reliable, comprehensive, actionable vendor security information directly in the hands of decision-makers who need to make informed risk assessments.
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Jun 2022
Vectara developed an integrated AI Assistant/Agent solution which focuses on enterprise readiness, especially when it comes to: Accuracy (eliminating "Hallucinations"), explainability of results/actions, and secure access control. More technically, under the hood Vectara provides a serverless end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented-Generation (RAG for short) platform which combines multi-lingual hybrid (semantic+lexical) information retrieval with AI-generated responses/actions while giving developers the optionality to optimize its behavior vs messing around with its guts (analogous to giving a database a hint to change join strategy versus changing the join algorithm manually). Enterprise customers and technology partners embed Vectaras GenAI platform in their own applications through easy plug-n-play API integrations vs re-inventing the wheel by building their own do-it-yourself solutions (which are hard to maintain overtime as the models underneath keep evolving rapidly). To top it off, there is a strong focus on solution testability, scalability, reliability, availability, resilience to prompt attacks, copyright protection, and bias mitigation, ensuring that applications built on top of Vectara are trustworthy for the enterprise.
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Jun 2022
Procyon delivers a modern, secure, and cloud-native On-Demand Authorization Platform for Enterprises by provisioning access to highly privileged actions through a self-service portal. We eliminate credential sprawl with a passwordless approach to secure critical infrastructure without slowing down developers. We do this with the greatest level of precision and transparency in the market. Rather than granting permanent access based on roles, we grant On-Demand Authorization for highly privileged actions via APIs to both human and non-human identities. This ensures the highest level of least privilege access and security, as security leaders can rest assured knowing exactly when and which identity accessed which critical resource. Moreover, we offer unparalleled transparency through our Identity Analyzer, which continuously maps, discovers, and visualizes a full inventory of all cloud identities, entitlements, resources, and configurations in an organization’s cloud environment to uncover any potential gaps or risks.
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Apr 2022
Cyera is the industry-leading AI Security Platform. As AI transforms how data is created, accessed, and used, Cyeras mission is to enable global enterprises to adopt AI at scale by securing the data that fuels it. The platform provides organizations with precise visibility, and intelligent controls to secure data everywhere - at rest, in motion, and in use, whether used by humans or agents. Valued at $9 billion and backed by more than $1.7 billion in funding from top-tier investors including Accel, Blackstone, Cyberstarts, Georgian, Lightspeed, and Sequoia, Cyera is trusted by a growing number of Fortune 1000 companies adopting AI across their enterprise at scale.
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2026
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Jun 2026
Arcade.dev is the action runtime for enterprise AI agents. We enforce your security and governance policies on every action, execute reliably across every business system, and govern your agents from a single control plane. Configure once and use any model, framework, and client. Deploy the first agent the same way you deploy the hundredth. Were proud to announce our recent $60 million Series A, led by SYN Ventures, with strategic investment from Morgan Stanley and Wipro Ventures. Check out our profile in the Wall Street Journal for more on how were solving the hardest problem in enterprise AI right now and why we are the team to solve it (see our Featured post).
2025
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Nov 2025
AI is now your most important web visitor. As LLMs increasingly answer questions on behalf of humans, your website’s primary audience is no longer people—it’s the AI agents deciding what gets seen, trusted, and chosen. Scrunch is the AI Customer Experience platform built for this shift. Scrunch helps brands monitor and benchmark their presence in AI search, uncover content and citation gaps, and deliver AI-ready website experiences that shape the way brands are discovered (and chosen) on AI platforms.
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Aug 2025
Factory is an AI research lab, bringing autonomy to software engineering with Droids.
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Apr 2025
AI-native security for agentic applications, built from the ground up with fine-tuned models to protect and secure every layer of your agentic AI stack. Not just the prompt layer.
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Mar 2025
At WisdomAI we believe data drives decisions, better. We’re putting data insights at the fingertips of every employee.
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