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Priya Sharma
Investor
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Horizon Ventures / Personal Investments
Developer tools and infrastructure that become
Response Time
Within 48 hours
Developer tools and infrastructure that become
Jan 2026
Member Since
+7 days
Last Active
Individual
Legal Entity
CA, US
Location
100%
Response Rate
PST
Timezone
Preferred Projects
Open To
- Enterprise SaaS investments
- Developer Tools investments
- Data Infrastructure investments
Not Interested In
- Crypto/blockchain projects
- Pre-revenue companies
- Non-tech businesses
About
Priya Sharma serves as Principal at Horizon Ventures, a $500M growth-stage fund, while also making personal angel investments in pre-seed and seed-stage enterprise software companies. This dual role gives her a unique perspective on what it takes to build category-winning B2B companies from inception to scale.
At Horizon, Priya focuses on enterprise SaaS, data infrastructure, and developer tools, leading investments ranging from $5M-$20M. Her personal angel portfolio includes 15 early-stage investments where she writes checks of $15K-$50K, specifically targeting technical founders building in the enterprise stack.
Before venture capital, Priya spent six years at Atlassian in various product roles, culminating as Senior Product Manager for Jira's enterprise features. She then co-founded DataPipe, a data integration startup that was acquired by Informatica. This operating experience informs her deep understanding of the enterprise buyer, product-led growth motions, and developer community building.
Priya's angel investment thesis focuses on: tools that become part of engineering teams' daily workflow, platforms with strong developer community engagement, and infrastructure software with usage-based business models. She's particularly interested in backing technical founders who previously worked at companies like Stripe, Databricks, Snowflake, or similar infrastructure leaders.
She's known for detailed product feedback on portfolio companies' roadmaps, introductions to enterprise buyers from her Atlassian network, and guidance on navigating the journey from product-led to sales-assisted growth. Portfolio companies include DevMetrics (Series A), APIGuard (seed), and CloudCost (pre-seed).
Priya holds a BS in Computer Science from IIT Delhi and an MBA from Stanford GSB. Based in San Francisco, she writes a popular Substack on enterprise software investing.
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