Shashank Saxena

CEO @ Pantomath; Partner @ Sierra Ventures, former CEO/Co-Founder of VNDLY (now a Workday company)

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2024
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Board Member
Jul 2024
A great project schedule is critical to construction project profitability. 70% of projects are over budget, primarily due to poor schedule planning. CPM Scheduling is hard, and tools have not evolved in decades, as many construction professionals are still using a 100-year-old concept like a Gantt chart. Planera is a collaborative online whiteboard CPM software that is super simple yet very powerful. Using Planera, users create resource and cost-loaded schedules in hours instead of weeks. People with knowledge of the project can build sophisticated schedules themselves without the need for a scheduling expert or consultant, saving time and money, and reducing frustration.
Angel Investor
Jan 2024
Redi creates novel connections between pharmaceutical manufacturers and patients. Our company was founded by experienced leaders in healthcare technology who have vast experience scaling pharma focused solutions. Our highly targeted approach drives new patient acquisition and medication sustainment by accelerating enrollment, navigating financial support, and reducing abandonment across the therapy journey — all to maximize your investment. More Patients. Better Outcomes.
Investor
Jun 2022
BalkanID is an AI-driven identity governance and security platform that optimizes access discovery, lifecycle and audit related activities. We do this by helping out customers prioritize, visualize and remediate identity-related risks prior to sprawl and data-loss being realized.
Board Member
Apr 2022
Solve data issues before you even know they exist. Pantomath is an automated data operations platform that addresses the challenges organizations face with data reliability, where manual, time-consuming processes and reliance on tribal knowledge often hinder effective problem resolution. By automating data monitoring and impact analysis, Pantomath streamlines operations and improves data confidence, quality, and reliability. Enterprises using Pantomath significantly reduce mean time to acknowledgement, mean time to root cause, and mean time to resolution of all data issues across their entire data ecosystem.
Angel Investor
Dec 2021
Cerby is the identity automation platform purpose-built to secure disconnected applications—those that fall outside the reach of traditional identity security tools. By integrating with existing IAM, IGA, and PAM systems, Cerby brings centralized access controls, automates manual security tasks, and extends governance across your entire application ecosystem. IT and security teams gain complete visibility and control, reducing risk and operational overhead. Founded in 2020, Cerby is backed by leading investors and trusted by enterprises across the globe. Get a demo to see us in action: www.cerby.com/demo
Angel Investor
Nov 2021
Spending decades as SaaS operators, we faced first hand the limitations of traditional data architectures. Expensive, bulky, and often failing to answer simple questions, these tools ultimately created more stress than insights… and that’s why we built Discern. Delivered as out of the box business intelligence, Discern breaks down operational siloes, answers key questions, and identifies critical risks. Through partnership with top PE firms, Discern has incorporated best practice dashboards and KPI definitions directly in the platform, making it easy for you to align your business with operational excellence. Because we’ve standardized system integrations, KPI calculations, and GTM dashboards, Discern has the unique advantage of delivering real insights in a matter of weeks. Are you ready to say goodbye to the BI BS?
Angel Investor
Nov 2021
We are building the smartest solution out there to make meetings much more efficient and productive. We are currently in market with a product that transcribes online meetings into intelligent summaries covering key insights such as action items, talking points, conversation highlights, recaps of important topics and so much more. Using these smart insights, you can instantly drive action, easily search across all your meeting conversations, highlight key moments and share them automatically with your team to level up your productivity.
Angel Investor
Jan 2021
OnPlan is the leading budgeting and forecasting platform for all business functions. Our platform allows better visibility and greater transparency with your team and more effective benchmarking. OnPlan targets a wide variety of industries and small to medium sized companies worldwide.
Angel Investor
Jan 2021
Unleash procurement possibilities with the power of dynamic supplier data. TealBook is the leading supplier data foundation that autonomously maintains supplier master data, powers e-procurement technology, drives supplier diversity, and enables supplier performance. Using AI and ML, TealBook gathers, predicts, and refines supplier data to build the world’s most comprehensive supplier intelligence.
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2024
Board Member
Jul 2024
A great project schedule is critical to construction project profitability. 70% of projects are over budget, primarily due to poor schedule planning. CPM Scheduling is hard, and tools have not evolved in decades, as many construction professionals are still using a 100-year-old concept like a Gantt chart. Planera is a collaborative online whiteboard CPM software that is super simple yet very powerful. Using Planera, users create resource and cost-loaded schedules in hours instead of weeks. People with knowledge of the project can build sophisticated schedules themselves without the need for a scheduling expert or consultant, saving time and money, and reducing frustration.
Managing Director
Apr 2024
SIERRA Ventures is an early-stage venture firm investing in the future of Enterprise and Emerging Technologies. With over four decades of experience and over $2 billion of assets under management, Sierra has created a vast network of successful entrepreneurs, Fortune 1000 CXOs, operational executives, and deep domain experts, providing a platform for entrepreneurs worldwide. For more information visit the Sierra Ventures website at https://www.sierraventures.com Twitter: @Sierra_Ventures
Angel Investor
Jan 2024
Redi creates novel connections between pharmaceutical manufacturers and patients. Our company was founded by experienced leaders in healthcare technology who have vast experience scaling pharma focused solutions. Our highly targeted approach drives new patient acquisition and medication sustainment by accelerating enrollment, navigating financial support, and reducing abandonment across the therapy journey — all to maximize your investment. More Patients. Better Outcomes.
2022
Investor
Jun 2022
BalkanID is an AI-driven identity governance and security platform that optimizes access discovery, lifecycle and audit related activities. We do this by helping out customers prioritize, visualize and remediate identity-related risks prior to sprawl and data-loss being realized.
Board Member
Apr 2022
Solve data issues before you even know they exist. Pantomath is an automated data operations platform that addresses the challenges organizations face with data reliability, where manual, time-consuming processes and reliance on tribal knowledge often hinder effective problem resolution. By automating data monitoring and impact analysis, Pantomath streamlines operations and improves data confidence, quality, and reliability. Enterprises using Pantomath significantly reduce mean time to acknowledgement, mean time to root cause, and mean time to resolution of all data issues across their entire data ecosystem.
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