Sunil Chhaya

Co-Founder and General Partner | Kearny Jackson VC

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 20 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Seed Investor
Jan 2026
Sandstone is the Legal Relationship Management system that coordinates a delightful day-to-day for legal departments. The platform that centralizes intake, context, and flags issues before they happen. It connects every workflow to the business relationship behind it and operationalizes legal knowledge through supervised agents.
Investor
Sep 2025
Bedrock Robotics brings advanced autonomy to the built world, helping the construction industry build at the pace todays society demands. Our technology upgrades existing heavy equipment, enabling truly autonomous operation with expert level quality and superhuman safety. At a time when we need to build faster than ever—from housing to data centers to factories and energy infrastructure—autonomous construction isnt just an innovation, its an economic necessity.
Seed Investor
Jan 2025
Genesis Computing delivers autonomous AI Data Agents built for enterprise data engineering teams. The agents research source systems to understand schemas and business logic, design field mappings from bronze source data to gold analytics targets, write and test dbt models and data pipelines, create comprehensive documentation, commit code to Git with pull requests, monitor pipeline execution, and automatically fix errors while continuously learning from your environment. Founded in 2024 and built by early Snowflake employees Matt Glickman and Justin Langseth, with decades of experience building enterprise data platforms at Snowflake and Goldman Sachs, Genesis helps data engineering teams accelerate work that used to take months down to hours. Genesis Data Agents start by building a digital twin of your data infrastructure to understand every table, pipeline, dependency, and integration, and then use that context to execute complete workflows from discovery through deployment. Organizations across financial services, healthcare and life sciences, media, retail, manufacturing, and technology rely on Genesis to reduce pipeline development cycles by up to 95%, cut manual work by 60-70%, and free hundreds of engineering hours from repetitive tasks. Genesis runs as a Snowflake Native Application or deploys in AWS, Azure, Databricks, or Docker environments, ensuring your data never leaves your control while working seamlessly with dbt, Airflow, and your existing data stack. Genesis follows proven Blueprint methodologies with built-in quality gates and validation steps to ensure reliable, production-grade outcomes every time. Join data leaders already multiplying their teams capacity with intelligent agents that understand enterprise data complexity and deliver measurable results from day one.
Angel Investor
Dec 2024
Genesis AI is a global full-stack robotics company building general-purpose robots with human-level intelligence and capabilities. Led by a world-class team obsessed with excellence at every level, Genesis AI is pushing the boundaries of robotics and AI to unlock a new era of human productivity. We are a new generation of robotics builders, united by a shared mission to push the boundaries of physical AI. Our team brings together the minds behind many of the most significant advances in robotics and AI in recent years — spanning the full stack. We introduced generative simulation, created foundational platforms such as Genesis, Jiminy, Flightmare, GVBD Voxels, and invented the IPC algorithm. We led the development of the first multimodal models at Mistral AI and Apple Intelligence. We co-created UMI and Diffusion Policy, pioneered reinforcement learning frameworks for superhuman drone racing, and scaled robotic data systems at NVIDIA GR00T. We built cross-platform GPU compilers such as VeriGPU, DeepCL, Coriander, and the original PyTorch. We also built industry-leading rendering engines at Google, Epic and Unity. Now, we’ve come together at Genesis AI to close the loop, and build what’s next.
Seed Investor
Dec 2023
We believe that the success of teams and organizations is governed by their internal rhythms – the fundamental processes that drive every aspect of their operation. Yet, these rhythms are poorly understood and managed in most organizations, resulting in chaotic, siloed, frustrating, unpredictable and uneven performance. We are building an AI-powered operating system to enable enterprises to understand, streamline, and orchestrate their rhythms, elevating the performance of every team to be best-in-class. Our ambition is to transform how teams and businesses operate everyday - to drive higher performance and bring joy into work.
Seed Investor
Dec 2022
CtrlStack provides Change Intelligence for DevOps to prevent downtime and identify changes before they impact customers. The platform unifies disconnected data, teams, and tools to connect cause to effect in DevOps. Harnessing the power of those connections, CtrlStack enables automated troubleshooting and serves as the system of record for change management.
Seed Investor
Aug 2022
Comulate transforms your revenue process by automating carrier statement processing, reconciliation, revenue recovery, and forecasting.
Seed Investor
Jul 2022
The data warehouse built for getting answers from your data. Works with AI agents and SQL alike. Built in collaboration with the folks at DuckLabs.
Seed Investor
Jun 2022
Building the future with AI.
Series A Investor
Sep 2021
Relyance AI provides industry-best visibility and coverage, delivering the most comprehensive understanding of data processing across your entire digital ecosystem. We offer an AI-native platform that simplifies data privacy, data security, and AI governance. Powered by our advanced intelligence engine, Trust iQ, our platform seamlessly integrates Global Privacy Automation, Data Security Posture Management, and AI Governance capabilities into a single intuitive interface.
Series A Investor
Feb 2021
Strata is the go-to platform for Identity Orchestration, enabling enterprises to connect any app to any identity service—without the chaos of hard-wiring identity or rewriting applications. The company’s founders created the IDQL (Identity Query Language) standard and Hexa open-source software for multi-cloud policy orchestration and are co-authors of the SAML standard for SSO federation. See how Strata can reduce IAM tech debt, improve security, break vendor lock-in, and minimize code maintenance for your enterprise apps. Use Identity Orchestration to easily migrate IDPs, integrate MFA or passwordless features on non-standard apps, and ensure continuous identity availability.
Series B Investor
Sep 2020
Observe.AI is transforming customer service with AI agents that speak, think, and act like your best human agents—helping enterprises automate routine customer calls and workflows, support agents in real time, and uncover powerful insights from every interaction. With Observe.AI, businesses boost automation, deliver faster, more consistent 24/7 service and build stronger customer loyalty. Trusted by brands like Accolade, Prudential, Concentrix, Cox Automotive, and Included Health, Observe.AI is redefining how businesses connect with customers—driving better experiences and lasting relationships at every touchpoint.
Series Seed Investor
Aug 2019
Grain automates note-taking, record-keeping, and insight capture from every customer conversation.
Series A Investor
Oct 2018
CasaOne is a furniture, decor, and home goods eCommerce company. For more, please visit casaone.com.
Series B Investor
Feb 2018
The collaborative, AI-powered platform for customer conversations. Trusted by more than 22,000 companies worldwide. Aircall seamlessly integrates voice, SMS, WhatsApp, and social media channels into a single platform, with bi-directional syncing across 200+ essential business apps. Imagine your CRM and Helpdesk data flowing effortlessly into every customer interaction, empowering your team to deliver smarter, more personalized experiences. Trusted by over 22,000 businesses globally, Aircalls AI-powered platform supercharges sales and support. We automate the busywork—optimizing call routing, automating repetitive tasks–while simultaneously delivering actionable insights from across every customer interaction. As a result, your teams are free to focus on what truly matters: building and maintaining customer relationships. Aircall is where your tech stack unites and your teams excel. We transform customer interactions into strategic opportunities, fueling growth and turning conversations into satisfied customers. With Aircall, every connection counts.
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2026
Seed Investor
Jan 2026
Sandstone is the Legal Relationship Management system that coordinates a delightful day-to-day for legal departments. The platform that centralizes intake, context, and flags issues before they happen. It connects every workflow to the business relationship behind it and operationalizes legal knowledge through supervised agents.
2025
Investor
Sep 2025
Bedrock Robotics brings advanced autonomy to the built world, helping the construction industry build at the pace todays society demands. Our technology upgrades existing heavy equipment, enabling truly autonomous operation with expert level quality and superhuman safety. At a time when we need to build faster than ever—from housing to data centers to factories and energy infrastructure—autonomous construction isnt just an innovation, its an economic necessity.
Seed Investor
Jan 2025
Genesis Computing delivers autonomous AI Data Agents built for enterprise data engineering teams. The agents research source systems to understand schemas and business logic, design field mappings from bronze source data to gold analytics targets, write and test dbt models and data pipelines, create comprehensive documentation, commit code to Git with pull requests, monitor pipeline execution, and automatically fix errors while continuously learning from your environment. Founded in 2024 and built by early Snowflake employees Matt Glickman and Justin Langseth, with decades of experience building enterprise data platforms at Snowflake and Goldman Sachs, Genesis helps data engineering teams accelerate work that used to take months down to hours. Genesis Data Agents start by building a digital twin of your data infrastructure to understand every table, pipeline, dependency, and integration, and then use that context to execute complete workflows from discovery through deployment. Organizations across financial services, healthcare and life sciences, media, retail, manufacturing, and technology rely on Genesis to reduce pipeline development cycles by up to 95%, cut manual work by 60-70%, and free hundreds of engineering hours from repetitive tasks. Genesis runs as a Snowflake Native Application or deploys in AWS, Azure, Databricks, or Docker environments, ensuring your data never leaves your control while working seamlessly with dbt, Airflow, and your existing data stack. Genesis follows proven Blueprint methodologies with built-in quality gates and validation steps to ensure reliable, production-grade outcomes every time. Join data leaders already multiplying their teams capacity with intelligent agents that understand enterprise data complexity and deliver measurable results from day one.
2024
Angel Investor
Dec 2024
Genesis AI is a global full-stack robotics company building general-purpose robots with human-level intelligence and capabilities. Led by a world-class team obsessed with excellence at every level, Genesis AI is pushing the boundaries of robotics and AI to unlock a new era of human productivity. We are a new generation of robotics builders, united by a shared mission to push the boundaries of physical AI. Our team brings together the minds behind many of the most significant advances in robotics and AI in recent years — spanning the full stack. We introduced generative simulation, created foundational platforms such as Genesis, Jiminy, Flightmare, GVBD Voxels, and invented the IPC algorithm. We led the development of the first multimodal models at Mistral AI and Apple Intelligence. We co-created UMI and Diffusion Policy, pioneered reinforcement learning frameworks for superhuman drone racing, and scaled robotic data systems at NVIDIA GR00T. We built cross-platform GPU compilers such as VeriGPU, DeepCL, Coriander, and the original PyTorch. We also built industry-leading rendering engines at Google, Epic and Unity. Now, we’ve come together at Genesis AI to close the loop, and build what’s next.
2023
Seed Investor
Dec 2023
We believe that the success of teams and organizations is governed by their internal rhythms – the fundamental processes that drive every aspect of their operation. Yet, these rhythms are poorly understood and managed in most organizations, resulting in chaotic, siloed, frustrating, unpredictable and uneven performance. We are building an AI-powered operating system to enable enterprises to understand, streamline, and orchestrate their rhythms, elevating the performance of every team to be best-in-class. Our ambition is to transform how teams and businesses operate everyday - to drive higher performance and bring joy into work.
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