Sid Trivedi

Growing up across Asia, Sid enjoyed a front row seat as the mobile phone transformed the entire planet. His dad worked for Nokia during the early 2000’s when Nokia was one of the most valuable brands in the world, which allowed Sid’s dad to bring home a new phone for Sid to test each week. The increasing speed and impact of each innovation was enough to get him hooked, and Sid pursued a career in the tech sector. Sid’s experience has run the gamut from public to growth to early-stage, affording him a unique perspective on how brand leaders are built and sustained. He started on Wall Street at Barclays Capital, advising on tech, media and telecom companies and spending time on both the buy-side and sell-side of major deals, from mergers and takeovers to corporate debt and equity financings. He then worked as an investment professional at Symphony Technology Group, a Palo Alto-based private equity firm investing in software, technology-enabled and data analytics companies. Before arriving at Foundation Capital, Sid was an investor at Omidyar Technology Ventures where he invested in and counseled early-stage enterprise software companies. Sid has a Bachelors (Honors) in Economics and Biological Sciences from Cornell University, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Outside of work, Sid serves on the advisory council for Entrepreneurship at Cornell and serves as a board member of the Cornell Venture Capital Club, which he co-founded during college.