Alok Nandan
Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ First Rays Venture Partners
San Francisco, United States
Alok Nandan is a seed investor at First Rays Venture Partners in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Alok is a Partner at First Rays Venture Partners. Alok holds a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, a Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA. Alok is also a co-inventor for three technology patents.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 47%
Last updated:
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Industries Alok Nandan invests in
Stages Alok Nandan invests in
Countries Alok Nandan invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $4M–$8M
- Pre-Seed
- $200k–$5.2M
- Series A
- $13M–$19M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (27%)
- SaaS 2 (13%)
- Information Technology 2 (13%)
- Privacy 1 (7%)
- Computer 1 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (40%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (33%)
- Series A 2 (13%)
Country
- United States 6 (40%)
- India 1 (7%)
- Israel 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Backslash Security is revolutionizing application security with a cloud-native solution that emphasizes risk context. | $19M / Series A / Feb 10, 2026 | ||
| WireMock develops an API Developer productivity platform. With the increasing growth of Microservices and API first architecture, dev teams' increased dependency on 3rd party APIs as well as internal APIs presents challenges that impact their dev productivity. WireMock helps developers to mock/virtualize APIs, break that dependency andimprove productivity.WireMock delivers the popular WireMock open-source tool as well as a cloud edition - WireMock Cloud. | $6.5M / Seed / May 24, 2023 | ||
| Essenvia is an online software to streamline pre and post-market workflow for medical device companies by streamlining plans or activities to market, improving cross-functional collaboration, and automating steps to manage initial and subsequent device modifications. | $4M / Seed / May 02, 2023 | ||
| Revenue Data Platform for GTM Teams | $3M / Pre-Seed / Apr 20, 2023 | ||
| Backslash Security is revolutionizing application security with a cloud-native solution that emphasizes risk context. | $8M / Seed / Mar 22, 2023 | ||
| What if developers don't need any static credentials to access cloud infrastructure? Today’s modern enterprises are facing credential sprawl problems - where the number of credentials to manage is growing exponentially. Developers, admins are often targets of social engineering attacks.Procyon provides Cloud Privilege Access Managementplatform for AWS, GCP and Azure. With the Procyon solution, a user never sees any credentials, so there is nothing to steal, nothing to remember. Procyon solution leverages TPM and biometrics to provide passwordless access to cloud infra. The self service portal enables developers for just-in-time access. Security teams have clear visibility into who accessed what and when. Procyon believes that productivity shouldn’t compromise security. | $6.5M / Seed / Feb 14, 2023 | ||
| BON V Aero develops carbon free aerial logistics and mobility. It provides aerospace technology advancements to promote electric aircrafts. BON V Aero was founded in 2020 and is based in Bhubaneswar, India. | Seed / Dec 06, 2022 | ||
| What if developers don't need any static credentials to access cloud infrastructure? Today’s modern enterprises are facing credential sprawl problems - where the number of credentials to manage is growing exponentially. Developers, admins are often targets of social engineering attacks.Procyon provides Cloud Privilege Access Managementplatform for AWS, GCP and Azure. With the Procyon solution, a user never sees any credentials, so there is nothing to steal, nothing to remember. Procyon solution leverages TPM and biometrics to provide passwordless access to cloud infra. The self service portal enables developers for just-in-time access. Security teams have clear visibility into who accessed what and when. Procyon believes that productivity shouldn’t compromise security. | Pre-Seed / Apr 15, 2022 | ||
| Arcion is the cloud-native, zero-code data mobility platform to help deploy high-performance, real-time data pipelines. | $13M / Series A / Feb 17, 2022 | ||
| Lumeus is an Agentless Zero Trust Networking technology that enables IT and security teams to integrate connectivity and control from campus to the cloud. | Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
First Rays Venture Partners supports visionary early-stage founders. The firm invests in future-forward ideas that will disrupt the enterprise stack and makes initial investment in Seed, Pre-Series A, and Series A stage startups focusing on B2B enterprise software. It specializes in helping startups to find early customers in AI, enterprises, ordeveloper communities and focuses on B2B themes of AI, Cloud-Edge-Data orchestration, and automation in the enterprise stack.
First Rays Venture Partners Contacts
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Amit Sridharan
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Alok Nandan
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Jenny Sohn
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FAQ
What does Alok Nandan invest in?
Alok Nandan invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Alok Nandan's check size?
Alok Nandan typically joins rounds of $4M–$8M at Seed, $200k–$5.2M at Pre-Seed and $13M–$19M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alok Nandan participates in.
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When did Alok Nandan last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Alok Nandan closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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