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Investor profile

Aditya Naganath

Investor, Kleiner Perkins

About

Aditya Naganath brings an unusually deep technical background to venture investing, having worked as a technical lead at Palantir, software engineer at Twitter and Nextdoor, and product manager at Google, giving him hands-on experience across the full engineering and product stack. He focuses on AI infrastructure with research-level expertise in areas like GPU utilization, FlashAttention, and LLM training workloads, and has developed a clear thesis distinguishing true infrastructure layers from higher-level tooling, backing companies like Together AI based on his conviction that open-source models will be good enough for enterprises. Aditya Naganath brings an unusually deep technical background to venture investing, having worked as a technical lead at Palantir, software engineer at Twitter and Nextdoor, and product manager at Google, giving him hands-on experience across the full engineering and product stack. He focuses on AI infrastructure with research-level expertise in areas like GPU utilization, FlashAttention, and LLM training workloads, and has developed a clear thesis distinguishing true infrastructure layers from higher-level tooling, backing companies like Together AI based on his conviction that open-source models will be good enough for enterprises.

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Investment focus

Stages
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Sectors
AI
Consumer
Enterprise
FinTech
Health

Investment details

Avg check size$500K - $75M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
USA
Asia-Pacific
India
Europe
Canada
LatAm
Israel
ANZ