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Meet our people

Rigorous, Curious, Committed

Ajay Agarwal builds and invests in early-stage application software companies. Within apps, Ajay has spent time in the modern sales and marketing stack; vertical SAAS with embedded fintech; supply chain and logistics; and product-led growth.

Ajay Agarwal

Partner
Boston

Enrique Salem invests in early-stage infrastructure software companies, with a specialization in cybersecurity. Enrique is a global leader in security, backup and availability solutions.

Enrique Salem

Partner
Bay Area

Scott invests inĀ application software companies, leveraging a career working in the commerce and marketing ecosystems. A former seed-to-exit founder of a successful Bain Capital backed commerce-tech analytics business, Scott is a trusted operational partner and advisor to founders at all stages.

Scott Friend

Partner
New York

For 30 years, Matt Harris has been investing in the visionary fintech founders creating seismic changes in payments, lending, capital markets, insurance and real estate. He is particularly interested in backing companies building next-generation embedded fintech tools that will upend traditional banking, lending and B2B payments through increased transparency and security.

Matt Harris

Partner
New York

Aaref works closely with small teams of builders, who leverage AI to solve problems previously unaddressed by software. Prior to joining BCV in 2020, he co-founded two companies and spent seven years as a partner at Sequoia.

Aaref Hilaly

Partner
Bay Area

Merritt partners with B2B SaaS founders at the growth stage who are focused on opportunities in horizontal application software, with a particular focus on product-led growth businesses.

Merritt Hummer

Partner
New York

Kevin Zhang partners from inception with founders building for the real world. Prior to BCV, Kevin led product as the first business hire at Fundera, a financial services marketplace.

Kevin Zhang

Partner
Bay Area

Rak Garg focuses on infrastructure software, cybersecurity and AI incubations, supporting technical founders creating the future of intelligent computing.

Christina Melas-Kyriazi focuses on early-stage investments in AI applications. She is based in San Francisco, and before BCV was a product leader at Affirm and an active angel investor.

Christina Melas-Kyriazi

Partner
Bay Area