AiSprouts VC

Arriving in Silicon Valley from Houston as a freshly-minted computer engineering graduate in 1999, Suman Talukdar experienced the tail-end of the first internet revolution. Living through the next wave of cloud adoption starting in the mid-2000s, he recognized in 2014 that another transition was underway, one where artificial intelligence is eating the same SaaS software slowly consuming the world.

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Suman Talukdar is a Founding Partner at AiSprouts VC, helping entrepreneurs build category-leading ventures.  He is currently investing out of his second vehicle, with portfolio companies having raised over $150M in follow-on capital. Select investments are Boostup, HaydenAI, Namecoach, & Zero.

Prior to becoming a full-time venture capitalist, Suman was a successful Silicon Valley venture-backed operator, having experienced five back-to-back operating exits including Cloudflare’s IPO, Anaplan’s IPO, and Clearwell’s sale to Symantec for $400M. He was also an active angel investor. His most recent exits include 6d.ai (acquired by Niantic) Apprente (acquired by McDonald’s), and Palantir. His mentors include accomplished founders and venture capitalists Burt McMurtry and Felda Hardymon.

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A published author on innovation, Suman also holds an MBA from Harvard and a bachelor of science in Electrical Computer Engineering from Rice University. After completing his graduate studies in business and finance, Suman worked for Parthenon's private equity group in Boston. He started his professional career as an engineer working under the guidance of Adam Cheyer (who later founded Siri) as a member of his artificial intelligence research team at VerticalNet.  He is married with three children, is an avid tennis player, appreciates soccer, and enjoys listening to classical music.