# Aashay Sanghvi

> Aashay Sanghvi is a seed investor at Haystack (San Francisco) backing Internet and Health Care. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Haystack](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haystack)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aashaysanghvi/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/aashaysanghvi_
- Website: http://www.aashaysanghvi.com

Aashay Sanghvi is a Principal at Haystack and a Founding Team and Advisor at Branch. He was working as a Special Projects at Notation Capital and attended Harvard University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 33% |
| Health Care | 2 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 17% |
| Trading Platform | 1 | 17% |
| Management Consulting | 1 | 17% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bench IQ | Bench IQ is an AI-powered assistant for elite law firms and corporate and government litigators that want unparalleled reconnaissance on the key players in their legal battles: judges and attorneys. The astute lawyer knows anticipating the potential outcomes of a case based on the facts and law is as uncertain as predicting the winner of a chessmatch from the arrangement of pieces and rulebook. In both cases, you must know who’s playing. | $5.3M | Seed | Aug 27, 2025 |  |
| Synch | Synch is a supplier of an integrated Global Trade Management (GTM) system that unifies a company's revenue stack. | $3M | Seed | Mar 12, 2024 |  |
| Bench IQ | Bench IQ is an AI-powered assistant for elite law firms and corporate and government litigators that want unparalleled reconnaissance on the key players in their legal battles: judges and attorneys. The astute lawyer knows anticipating the potential outcomes of a case based on the facts and law is as uncertain as predicting the winner of a chessmatch from the arrangement of pieces and rulebook. In both cases, you must know who’s playing. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 29, 2024 |  |
| Kinetic Automation | Kinetic is ushering in the next generation of mobility (EVs, AVs) with a network of highly automated service centers. | $10M | Series A | Oct 05, 2023 |  |
| Integral | Enabling any company to work with healthcare data seamlessly and compliantly. | $6.9M | Seed | Sep 05, 2023 |  |
| Integral Privacy Technologies | Integral focuses on compliantly connecting health data in a secure and efficient manner, serving as the only end-to-end regulated insights platform transforming compliance barriers into competitive advantage. We offer a range of products and services to help businesses accelerate their data processing, collaborate securely, and unlock new insights.Our software provides robust security and privacy protections while enabling seamless collaboration with regulated data. Our flagship offering is Expert Certifications-as-a-Service, which allows companies to work with de-identified data to discover novel insights and make innovative business decisions. Unlike traditional methods conducted by consultants that take months, our automated expert certification software drastically reduces processing time to mere hours.Through our expertise in privacy-enhancing technologies and deep understanding of healthcare data complexities, we help enterprises extract bespoke, actionable insights from regulated data that aren't available anywhere else, making us a valuable asset for any company looking to compliantly work with regulated data. | $6.9M | Seed | Sep 05, 2023 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Also Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/also-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alt Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alt-capital-6a95) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Array Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/array-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Caffeinated Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caffeinated-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GreatPoint Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greatpoint-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Inovia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inovia-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Haystack

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Haystack is a venture capital firm that backs outlier founders at the earliest stages.

5 contacts available at Haystack.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Rowat | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-rowat |
| Divya Dhulipala | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/divya-dhulipala |
| Aashay Sanghvi | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aashay-sanghvi |
| Anand Iyer | LP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anand-iyer |
| Debbie Quement | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/debbie-quement-ab37 |

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## FAQ

### What does Aashay Sanghvi invest in?

Aashay Sanghvi invests primarily in Internet, Health Care and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Aashay Sanghvi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aashay Sanghvi closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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