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▶ 7:21 · $PARALLEL · Entire investment thesis centered on founder Parag Agarwal; business now on absolute tear
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Wiz is the largest venture-backed M&A in history: Shardul Shah, Partner at Index Ventures

2026-03-13 · 4 company · 2 thematic
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shardul shah

Partner at Index Ventures focusing on cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure; led Index's investment in Wiz (largest venture-backed M&A ever), previously served on board of Adallom (acquired by Microsoft), and backs founder-first across AI agents, security, and enterprise software.

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“If I think about um like Perog Agarwal from Parallel um he was previously the CTO and and and the CEO of Twitter. Um when he started his business our internal memo was about five pages about him. We didn't talk about the business. My partn…”
—shardul shah
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