Sanjit Singh Dang

Dr. Sanjit Singh Dang has been a successful Venture Capitalist, Corporate Executive, Board Member, Speaker, and Writer in Silicon Valley for over two decades. He is currently the Co-Founder and Chairman of U First Capital which has invested in category-leading companies such as SpaceX, Uniphore, Pensando, and DevRev. Prior to that, he was at Intel Capital where he led Venture Capital investments in Enterprise Software. He has been an Investor and on the Board of several companies, including True Fit (AI for eCommerce, Raised $100M), Reflektion (AI recommendation for eCommerce, Raised $42M), Helpshift (AI-driven Customer Service, Raised $38M) and Enlighted (Smart Lighting, Acquired by Siemens in 2018). He is a contributing writer for Forbes. Sanjit is on the Advisory Council of the UN’s World Artificial Intelligence Organization. He has also served on the University of California President's Innovation Council. He’s an invited Speaker at several top conferences, eg SURGE/WebSummit, Venture Summit West, TiECon, Collision, ShopTalk, McKinsey Leadership Summit, Silicon Valley Open Doors, Global AI conference, etc. He’s a mentor at Stanford and Berkeley’s Entrepreneurship programs. Always striving to be ahead of the curve, Sanjit worked on Big Data Analytics before the industry created the term 'Big Data'. Similarly, he launched 2 online courses during graduate school in 1999 and published iconic papers on learnings, way before the MOOC revolution started. Sanjit has the fastest Engineering Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Chicago (2 years 9 months after undergrad), which he received in 2000 with top research awards. He also attended the VC Executive program at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.