# Aydin Senkut

> Aydin Senkut is a Series A investor at Guideline (Menlo Park) backing Software and SaaS. See 117 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Guideline](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guideline-technologies-inc)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 117
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 24%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/aydins
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/asenkut
- Website: http://www.felicis.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/asenkut

Aydin Senkut is a Series A investor at Guideline in Menlo Park focused on Software and SaaS. An original super angel turned multi-stage investor, Aydin has been named on the Forbes Midas List for the past twelve years (2014-2025) as well as the New York Times Top 20 Venture Capitalists list for four consecutive years (2016-2019). Before starting Felicis, he was the first product manager at Google and helped launch their first teninternational sites. He received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with Honors from Boston University, an MBA in Marketing from the Wharton School, and a master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Aydin currently sits on the Graduate Board of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 24 | 21% |
| SaaS | 12 | 10% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 9% |
| Advertising | 8 | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 8 | 7% |

132 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 31 | 26% |
| Series B | 21 | 18% |
| Seed | 14 | 12% |
| Series C | 11 | 9% |
| Angel | 6 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 57 | 49% |
| Germany | 2 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Turkey | 1 | 1% |
| Singapore | 1 | 1% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Supabase | Supabase provides an open source backend platform for application development, centered around a managed PostgreSQL database and complementary tools. It offers built-in user authentication, real-time subscriptions, file storage, and serverless edge functions within a unified interface. Supabase enabling developers to deploy secure databasesquickly, auto-generate APIs, and focus on building features rather than infrastructure. The company operates with a commitment to open source, contributing to database extensions and community projects. It supports integration with existing Postgres setups and encourages flexibility in scaling and migration. | $500M | Series F | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Deep Infra | DeepInfra is an AI inference cloud platform that enables developers and organizations to run machine learning models at scale through a unified API. The platform supports a wide range of capabilities, including large language models, vision processing, embeddings, image and video generation, and speech applications, allowing users to integratemultiple AI functions into their systems. It provides an OpenAI-compatible interface, which allows existing applications to switch endpoints with minimal code changes while accessing a large catalog of open-source models. DeepInfra manages the underlying infrastructure, including GPU resources and scaling, so users can deploy and operate AI workloads without handling complex system setup. The service is designed to facilitate production-level AI deployment by offering automated scaling, model hosting, and tools for integrating and running inference workloads efficiently. | $107M | Series B | May 04, 2026 |  |
| Depot | Depot is a cloud-based Docker image development service that provides managed persistent cache and native multi-architecture compatibility. | $10M | Series A | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Revel | Revel is a complete hardware control platform that combines a high-performance runtime environment, a specific programming language designed for hardware control, and an easy-to-use command/control interface. | $150M | Series B | Feb 26, 2026 |  |
| Runway | Runway provides a suite of generative artificial intelligence tools that enable the creation and editing of images, videos, animations, and multimedia content using text prompts or visual inputs. The company offers models and creative tooling that support video generation from text or other media, image synthesis, and motion-aware editing within abrowser-based platform, along with APIs for integrating capabilities into external workflows. Runway’s technology includes iterative model versions such as Gen-4 and Aleph that help users direct visual style, scene continuity, and character consistency in generated sequences. Its platform also includes features for masking, compositing, motion tracking, and additional creative controls that work alongside generation models to support production workflows. Runway is positioned as an AI-driven creative toolkit for storytellers, filmmakers, and content producers seeking to prototype and produce visual content with machine learning assistance. | $315M | Series E | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| RAPIDFORT | RapidFort provides software supply chain security solutions focused on identifying, prioritizing, and remediating vulnerabilities in containerized applications without requiring code changes. The company’s platform combines curated near-zero CVE container images, automated scanning, profiling, and runtime protection tools to manage software attacksurfaces and support compliance workflows. RapidFort’s technology generates software bills of materials and runtime insights to help teams reduce exposure to vulnerabilities across the development lifecycle and integrate security into existing CI/CD processes. The platform is designed to assist engineering and security teams in streamlining vulnerability management and optimizing container security at scale. | $42M | Series A | Feb 03, 2026 |  |
| Verkada | Verkada builds modern security solutions that help enterprises run safer, smarter buildings. Our mission: Modernize the world of enterprise building security.Verkada’s enterprise security solution combines easy to install security cameras, environmental sensors, alarms and access control with intelligent, cloud-based software—all in a scalable,user-friendly system. More than 7800 organizations, including 40 Fortune 500 companies, use Verkada to protect people and assets, secure facilities, and gain new insights that improve the efficiency of their operations. Verkada’s vision is to be the operating system that runs every building in the world.The company was founded by computer scientists and security experts from Stanford University, and Hans Robertson, the former co-founder and COO of Cisco Meraki. Verkada is headquartered in San Mateo, CA with offices in London and Sydney. | $20M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Fifth Door | Fifth Door is a next-generation game platform that enables you to bring your game online in just minutes. | $20M | Seed | Nov 26, 2025 |  |
| Hepta Bio | Hepta determines chronic disease early by using cfDNA epigenetic analysis and AI to provide accurate, non-invasive diagnostics at the community level. | $6.7M | Seed | Nov 05, 2025 |  |
| n8n | n8n is a free and open node-based Workflow Automation Tool. It can be self-hosted, easily extended, and used with third party web applications or custom in-house tools to automate repetitive tasks. With n8n, for the first time, people can move beyond simple integrations to build multi-step workflows that combine both 3rd party APIs and your owninternal tools to create easy to use automations that snap together all the pieces of what would otherwise be very complex, disconnected systems. n8n is headquartered in Berlin and was founded by Jan Oberhauser in 2019. | $180M | Series C | Oct 08, 2025 |  |

10 of 117 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Coatue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coatue) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 9 deals together

## About Guideline

VC Fund · San Mateo, United States

Guideline an all-inclusive 401(k) technology designed for growing businesses. Guideline handles all plan administration, including set-up, participant enrollment and education, recordkeeping, investment management, compliance, and reporting. Guideline is the first full-service 401(k) with straightforward pricing of one flat fee per participant, incontrast to the asset-based fee model predominant in the industry.

5 contacts available at Guideline.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aydin Senkut | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aydin-senkut |
| Brian McDermott | Director of Sales | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-mcdermott-2 |
| Carol B. Ho | General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carol-b-ho |
| Dayna Grayson | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dayna-grayson |
| Jason Williams | Chief Customer Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-williams-7 |

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## FAQ

### What does Aydin Senkut invest in?

Aydin Senkut invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 117 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 Aydin Senkut last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aydin Senkut closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 117 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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