shardul shah

T3 · host / generalist

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.

4 calls·4 names·100% bull·last heard 5 months ago·Scaling Europe
track record

no scored calls yet — needs a stated position or a categorical verdict, with a matured window vs SPY

top calls

highest conviction · one per company
1sthigh conviction
$SIMILESimileposition

Founder June's contradiction of planetary imagination and Fortune 50 pragmatism drove immediate conviction

June combines science-fiction-scale imagination (simulating every person on Earth) with rigorous enterprise execution (PC graduation, weekly active users), a contradiction that signaled exceptional founder quality and made Simile the priority investment for the year.

2ndhigh conviction
$WIZWizposition

Index Ventures' largest ever investment becomes biggest venture-backed M&A in history

Conviction built entirely on founding team quality over six years, leading Index to double, triple, and quadruple down across Series A, B, and later rounds; people-first thesis validated by $32B Google acquisition.

3rdhigh conviction
$PARALLELParallelposition

Entire investment thesis centered on founder Parag Agarwal; business now on absolute tear

Invested based solely on founder Parag Agarwal (ex-Twitter CTO/CEO) with five-page internal memo focused entirely on him; he proved prescient about AI agents' need to access the web, and the company is now executing exceptionally.

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$SIMILE
Simile
HIGHshardul shah·Scaling Europe·5 months ago· position
Founder June's contradiction of planetary imagination and Fortune 50 pragmatism drove immediate conviction
June combines science-fiction-scale imagination (simulating every person on Earth) with rigorous enterprise execution (PC graduation, weekly active users), a contradiction that signaled exceptional founder quality and made Simile the priority investment for the year.
"When I think about June at simile again in this AI era um which whiz was a beneficiary of by the way but in this AI era when I first met June um I I felt this human being that was…"
8:34
$WIZ
Wiz
HIGHshardul shah·Scaling Europe·5 months ago· position
Index Ventures' largest ever investment becomes biggest venture-backed M&A in history
Conviction built entirely on founding team quality over six years, leading Index to double, triple, and quadruple down across Series A, B, and later rounds; people-first thesis validated by $32B Google acquisition.
"Um about a decade ago, I served on the board of Alone uh which was a soft uh uh Roy Ammy. It was their first company. And so I had a f front front row seat at observing how they t…"
1:19
$PARALLEL
Parallel
HIGHshardul shah·Scaling Europe·5 months ago· position
Entire investment thesis centered on founder Parag Agarwal; business now on absolute tear
Invested based solely on founder Parag Agarwal (ex-Twitter CTO/CEO) with five-page internal memo focused entirely on him; he proved prescient about AI agents' need to access the web, and the company is now executing exceptionally.
"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…"
7:21
$INDEX-VENTURES
Index Ventures
HIGHshardul shah·Scaling Europe·5 months ago· position
One-team multi-geography culture enables dissent and conviction-based rule-breaking
Index's unique structure — one investment team across geographies sharing all funds — creates a culture of dissent where partners challenge each other's convictions, allowing well-reasoned judgment calls that break conventional VC rules.
"Well, it's not all about me, right? So, index is set up a as one team across multiple geographies um and the same team is investing across different funds. Um it it's not the cult…"
4:08