Founder and Partner at Firebolt Ventures, earlier worked at Draper Associates (Tim Draper's personal investment vehicle, that invested in FundersClub, CrowdFunder, Angellist etc) and August Capital ($2.5B AUM VC firm whose partners invested early in Microsoft, Compaq, Sun, Skype, Splunk, Zulily etc). Prior to being in VC, I was mostly technical - started coding at the age of 9, did my undergrad (CS) at IIT Kanpur, worked at Microsoft on Bing's search algorithm (multi layer neural network and random forest models) and did my Masters at Stanford. Hold a few patents and have ACM publications in the areas of search algorithms, CPA ads and online reputation networks. While I believe there are structural reasons why certain parts of VC are hard to quantify, I do bring a lot of ideas from the machine learning/algorithms world into the way I look at the VC value chain and business in general.