Shardul Shah
VCPartner, Index Ventures
Index Ventures partner, leading cybersecurity and AI investor
Background
Shardul Shah has been a partner at Index Ventures since 2008, based in New York, and is recognized as one of the world's leading cybersecurity investors. He began his career at Summit Partners after graduating from the University of Chicago. He was the first institutional investor in Wiz, which was acquired by Google for $32 billion in 2025 — the largest acquisition in Google's history — and Index's stake yielded approximately $3.5 billion. He has also led early investments in Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG), Duo Security (acquired by Cisco), and Nginx (acquired by F5). He has been named to the Forbes Midas List multiple times and currently sits on the boards of Datadog, Simile, and Parallel.
Investment Thesis
Invests with extreme conviction in founder-first cybersecurity, AI, and infrastructure companies; believes growth and early-stage investing share the same discipline.
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Based in: New York, USA (global portfolio) (North America)