# Ashvin Bachireddy

> Ashvin Bachireddy is a seed investor at SV Angel backing Cyber Security. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashvinb
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ashvinb
- Website: https://x.com/ashvinb
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bachireddy

Ashvin Bachireddy is a seed investor at SV Angel in Menlo Park focused on Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence. Ashvin Bachireddy is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Managing Partner at SV Angel Growth. Ashvin previously worked at Geodesic Capital as a Co-Founding Partner. Ashvin Bachireddy attended the University of California San Diego. Ashvin Bachireddy has been awarded the 2022 Midas List.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 67% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 67% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Mobile | 1 | 33% |
| Internet | 1 | 33% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series C | 1 | 33% |
| Series D | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PlayerZero | PlayerZero delivers an AI-powered platform that helps engineering teams resolve software defects, predict future issues, and accelerate overall development quality. The platform integrates telemetry, user sessions, support tickets, and code repositories to trace problems directly to specific lines of code. It supports proactive detection ofregressions, anomaly monitoring, and context-aware documentation using natural language queries. PlayerZero enables automated defect resolution agents and predictive analysis engines grounded in live user behavior and historical commit data. The system emphasizes data privacy by masking sensitive information in the browser and allowing clients to use their own secure storage for session data. | $5M | Seed | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| CyCognito | CyCognito is a revolutionary new approach to external cyber risk management driven to create positive business impact. Far deeper than external attack surface management, our platform helps organizations identify, understand and master their risk in profound new ways. Fully-automated, highly scalable, and designed to function as promised, ourplatform uses advanced machine learning and natural language processing to allow for unprecedented reach, speed and accuracy. We can step into the shoes of potential attackers—which in turn helps us identify and secure gaps better than anyone. We help teams secure their attack surface by helping them determine true risks, where they need to focus and how they should invest. And then we use what we learn to help bridge cyber risk remediation across departments unlike ever before. | $100M | Series C | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| Instart | Instart is a digital experience management company. They help thousands of leading brands like Neiman Marcus, Coach, Microsoft, AT&T, Hearst and CBS to deliver faster, safer and better online experiences for millions of their customers – and to earn higher profits for themselves. Their Digital Experience Cloud is unique in that it usesartificial intelligence and machine learning to automatically and continuously optimize and secure every object and every page for each of your web and mobile applications for every device and every customer. No other company does this. After you deploy Instart, your customers will enjoy up to 30% faster application performance, and your applications and products will look better, leading to up to 20% higher conversion, more SEO traffic, lower pay per click costs and higher net promoter scores. If your company is selling online, your customers will buy more, delivering up to 8% higher online revenue, greater average order value, and reduced returns. Media companies work with Instart to drive online revenue up to 15% higher by increasing advertising viewability, restoring advertising revenue currently being lost to ad blocking software, and ensuring every visitor always has the best possible experience. IT departments enjoy up to 50% lower TCO, greater security and improved reliability for your existing infrastructure supporting your digital applications. | $45M | Series D | Jan 20, 2016 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Harpoon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harpoon-2271) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [UpWest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/upwest-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BLH Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blh-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About SV Angel

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

5 contacts available at SV Angel.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ron Conway | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ron-conway |
| Ashvin Bachireddy | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashvin-bachireddy |
| Robert Pollak | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-pollak |
| Sourav Gupta | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sourav-gupta-8e49 |
| Topher Conway | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/topher-conway |

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## FAQ

### What does Ashvin Bachireddy invest in?

Ashvin Bachireddy invests primarily in Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 3 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 Ashvin Bachireddy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ashvin Bachireddy closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 3 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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