# Sathya Nellore Sampat

> Sathya Nellore Sampat is a seed investor at BoldCap backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BoldCap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boldcap)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sathyanarayanaa/

Sathya Nellore Sampat is a seed investor at BoldCap in New York focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Sathya Nellore Sampat is the General Partner at BoldCap. Sathya attended New York University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 45% |
| Software | 4 | 36% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 27% |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 18% |
| CRM | 1 | 9% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 45% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 27% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 64% |
| India | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Discern Security | Discern Security develops artificial intelligence software that helps organizations assess, prioritize, and remediate cybersecurity risks across enterprise environments. The company's platform integrates with security tools to consolidate posture, configuration, asset, identity, vulnerability, and compliance data into a unified operationalview for security teams. Its technology provides AI-powered analysis, risk prioritization, automated security controls assessment, remediation workflows, policy management, and security dashboards that support continuous monitoring and operational decision-making.Discern Security also offers autonomous AI agents that assist with posture evaluation, remediation planning, workflow orchestration, reporting, and cross-platform security management while maintaining governance and auditability. The company's platform is designed to help security teams improve visibility, automate routine security operations, optimize existing security controls, and manage cyber risk across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and software-as-a-service environments. | $13M | Series A | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| Pramaana Labs | Pramaana Labs utilizes formal logic and mathematical proofs to ensure that outputs are grounded in stated evidence rather than statistical predictions. Its core verification engine identifies contradictions and ambiguities within complex datasets like tax codes, clinical trials, and financial policies. The platform allows users to simulate what-ifscenarios and run self-consistency checks before deploying formalized rules. These services assist entities in fields such as medical safety and multi-state tax compliance by creating auditable and traceable claims. | $27M | Seed | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| Hawcx | Hawcx is the passwordless authentication platform that provides a simple yet powerful approach to digital identity security. Hawcx leverages decentralized fingerprinting and multi-step authentication to work across any device, platform, cloud platform and operating system. Unlike traditional password-based authentication or other MFA methods, Hawcxis the industry’s first and only solution that does not store any user sensitive information including the passwords and private keys anywhere in their systems. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Mar 11, 2025 |  |
| Mili | Software for streamlining workflows for financial advisors | $2M | Seed | Dec 17, 2024 |  |
| Enkrypt AI | Enabling faster and secure adoption of Gen AI models in Enterprises. | $2.4M | Seed | Feb 27, 2024 |  |
| Discern Security | Discern Security develops artificial intelligence software that helps organizations assess, prioritize, and remediate cybersecurity risks across enterprise environments. The company's platform integrates with security tools to consolidate posture, configuration, asset, identity, vulnerability, and compliance data into a unified operationalview for security teams. Its technology provides AI-powered analysis, risk prioritization, automated security controls assessment, remediation workflows, policy management, and security dashboards that support continuous monitoring and operational decision-making.Discern Security also offers autonomous AI agents that assist with posture evaluation, remediation planning, workflow orchestration, reporting, and cross-platform security management while maintaining governance and auditability. The company's platform is designed to help security teams improve visibility, automate routine security operations, optimize existing security controls, and manage cyber risk across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and software-as-a-service environments. | $3M | Seed | Sep 19, 2023 |  |
| SuprSend | SuprSend is the notification infrastructure for the product. | $1M | Seed | Sep 14, 2022 |  |
| PreSkale | A pre-sales intelligence platform for B2B companies to optimize their presales motion with sales organizations to drive product conviction to value adotpion. The tool integrates with sales, product, customer operations and marketing stack to help PreSales unify go-to-market data and build product intelligence to win more deals. | $500K | Pre-Seed | May 25, 2022 |  |
| PreSkale | A pre-sales intelligence platform for B2B companies to optimize their presales motion with sales organizations to drive product conviction to value adotpion. The tool integrates with sales, product, customer operations and marketing stack to help PreSales unify go-to-market data and build product intelligence to win more deals. | $500K | Pre-Seed | May 25, 2022 |  |
| Lucidity | lucidity provides cloud storage with the highest possible performance at the lowest possible cost without the need for human intervention. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Titan Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/titan-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BoldCap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boldcap) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [PointOne Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pointone-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [WestWave Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/westwave-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [All in capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-in-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About BoldCap

VC Fund · Chennai, India

BoldCap is an early-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs. BoldCap backs relentless entrepreneurs disrupting the enterprise tech stack. BoldCap is an operator turned venture capital firm that helps startup achieve product-market fit and get access to early customers.

2 contacts available at BoldCap.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sathya Nellore Sampat | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sathyanarayanaa-nellore-sampat |
| Priya Ramachandran | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/priya-ramachandran-b8cf |

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## FAQ

### What does Sathya Nellore Sampat invest in?

Sathya Nellore Sampat invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 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 Sathya Nellore Sampat last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sathya Nellore Sampat closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 11 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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