Salil Deshpande
Managing Director @ Bain Capital Ventures
Palo Alto, United States
Salil Deshpande is a Series A investor at Bain Capital Ventures in Palo Alto focused on Software and Information Technology. Salil focuses on early-stage infrastructure software, open source, and crypto. Over the last 13 years he has invested $350M into 52 companies including MuleSoft, DynaTrace, DataStax, Tealium, Lending Club, Buddy Media, SpringSource, Redis Labs, SysDig, Frame, Basis, Compound, Jambool, Dropcam, Lightbend, Hazelcast, Groovy & Grails, Gradle, Sonatype, ZeroTurnaround, Chef, and Philz Coffee. Salil was on the Forbes Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, and on the CB Insights list of The 100 Top Venture Capitalists in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.
- Total investments:
- 130
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 28%
Last updated:
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Industries Salil Deshpande invests in
Stages Salil Deshpande invests in
Countries Salil Deshpande invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$6M
- Series A
- $3.5M–$25M
- Series B
- $10M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 34 (26%)
- Information Technology 16 (12%)
- SaaS 14 (11%)
- Enterprise Software 14 (11%)
- FinTech 12 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 35 (27%)
- Seed 31 (24%)
- Series B 22 (17%)
- Series C 9 (7%)
- Series D 8 (6%)
Country
- United States 57 (44%)
- India 4 (3%)
- Canada 2 (2%)
- United Kingdom 2 (2%)
- Hong Kong 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Tasklet is an AI agent and automation platform created by the founders of Shortwave. It is designed to act as an autonomous 24/7 teammate that completes complex workflows across the software stack, rather than answering questions like a standard chatbot. | $12.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 05, 2026 | ||
| Lemurian Labs has created a universal platform that works across any hardware and spans compiler technology and runtime orchestration. This streamlined, hardware-agnostic approach simplifies AI development, enabling organizations to write code once and deploy it seamlessly across edge, cloud and on-premise environments. By cutting through thecomplexity of fragmented software ecosystems, Lemurian Labs empowers businesses to build and scale AI efficiently, affordably and responsibly—unlocking the full potential of AI innovation without proprietary constraints. | $28M / Series A / Dec 03, 2025 | ||
Standard Fleet
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Software for electric vehicle owners | $13M / Series A / Sep 10, 2025 | |
| Sedai is the world’s first self-driving cloud.™ Our platform optimizes your cloud resources to reduce costs, boost performance, & improve availability. All on autopilot. Under the hood, Sedai uses patented ML models to learn how your apps actually behave — from traffic patterns to dependencies to golden signals. This application intelligencelets Sedai make safe changes to achieve your SLOs. With zero IaC drift. Zero toil. And 100% confidence. | $20M / Series B / Jun 16, 2025 | ||
| CodeAnt AI is a devtool that assists businesses in identifying and auto-fixing code bugs and security vulnerabilities. | $2M / Seed / May 07, 2025 | ||
| LeapXpert enables enterprises to embrace consumer messaging applications and integrate them into their business-critical applications and processes. The company's Federated Messaging Orchestration Platform (FMOP™) is an enterprise conversational solution between Employees and Clients. It empowers companies to securely communicate from acentral source while allowing customers to use the messaging app of their choice. FMOP elevates messaging to a formal business communication channel, similar to calling or emailing. It allows companies to control communications between employees, suppliers, customers, and other interested parties. It resolves the business, compliance, and regulatory challenges the rise of messaging applications’ use in business channels has created. It currently has three of the ten top global banks as customers, with tens of thousands of users. | $20M / Series B / Jan 21, 2025 | ||
| The App Developer's missing operational framework to free AI from the lab and launch in production. | $9M / Seed / Jan 01, 2025 | ||
Openmart
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AI agent that automates B2B sales for brands and manufacturers. | $2.8M / Seed / Aug 21, 2024 | |
| AstroForge is an asteroid mining company that extracts gold and other minerals from asteroid. Instead of bringing back the entire asteroid, break it up, refine it, and return only what’s valuable. | $42.5M / Series A / Aug 20, 2024 | ||
| Anjuna makes the public cloud secure for business. Software from Anjuna Security effortlessly enables enterprises to safely run even their most sensitive workloads in the public cloud. Unlike complex perimeter security solutions easily breached by insiders and malicious code, Anjuna leverages the strongest hardware-based secure computingtechnologies available to make the public cloud the safest computing resource available anywhere | $25M / Series B / Aug 07, 2024 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Bain Capital Ventures
With over $10B under management, Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) offers distinctive access to Bain Capital's broader industry expertise and portfolio of companies. For over 20 years, BCV has invested from seed through IPO and acquisition, backing more than 400 companies including Attentive, Bloomreach, Clari, Docusign, Flywire, LinkedIn, Moveworks, Redis, Rubrik and ShipBob.
Bain Capital Ventures Contacts
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Paul Zurlo
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Ron Miasnik
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FAQ
What does Salil Deshpande invest in?
Salil Deshpande invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 130 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Salil Deshpande invest in?
Salil Deshpande typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$6M at Seed, $3.5M–$25M at Series A and $10M–$30M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Salil Deshpande's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Salil Deshpande took part in.
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When did Salil Deshpande last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Salil Deshpande closed in Oct 2026. Shizune tracks 130 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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