// PERSON
Semil Shah
ROLE CO-FOUNDER, HAYSTACKMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN JULY 6, 2026
// BIO
Semil Shah is the founding general partner of Haystack, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, currently investing out of its eighth fund. He has also served as a venture partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners since 2018. He is best known for early seed investments in companies including DoorDash, Instacart, Figma, and HashiCorp, and has been named to the Forbes Midas Seed List multiple times.
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mention·20VC·JULY 6, 2026
“I would say tied for my favorite seed fund has got to be Haystack. I'm just a huge fan of Semil and Divya and the work they do. It's an incredible fund. Obviously, they've produced some generational outcomes.”
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