Vic Singh

Who they are

Vic Singh is Founding General Partner at Eniac Ventures — a Penn-trained engineer who sold his startup Kanvas to AOL before co-founding the firm in 2008, and now runs Originalis AI as a side project out of Brooklyn.

Person

Vic got his BSE in Engineering from Penn in 1999, then spent years as a full-stack software developer before pivoting to the business side via an MBA at Columbia Business School in 2007. Out of business school he moved through the VC world — stints at RRE Ventures and Chart Venture Partners — before co-founding Eniac Ventures in September 2008 at the firm's inception. In between, he founded Kanvas, a venture-backed startup that was acquired by AOL, where he served as Head of Kanvas Labs and VP. The through-line is engineering credibility feeding operator experience feeding investor conviction — he's done all three, and in that order. He posts on LinkedIn on venture capital, AI investing, portfolio announcements, and VC philosophy — practical, practitioner-first content rather than thought-leadership abstraction. He also runs Originalis AI as a side project, serving as CEO of the Brooklyn-based AI company alongside his GP role.

Company

Eniac closed its fourth fund at $125 million in May 2026 — a meaningful close against a backdrop of higher borrowing costs and public market valuation corrections that have pressured the broader seed landscape. The firm was co-founded by Vic Singh, Nihal Mehta, Tim Young, and Hadley Harris in 2009 and operates as a pure-play seed fund with a founder-first, collaborative deal process built around mandatory round-robin partner meetings and open feedback. The portfolio has produced 9 unicorns, 3 IPOs, and 63 acquisitions across 133 companies, with $934.2M in total known invested capital. Recent activity includes participating in a Series B for Lunar Outpost in May 2026, and an $8.6M Series A for Cascala Health in August 2025. Eniac ranked #194 in the 2026 Power Law Investor Ranking (Global).

Market

Eniac competes in the seed-stage VC market against firms like First Round Capital, a16z, Lerer Hippeau, and Scale Venture Partners, while also co-investing alongside many of them. The firm focuses on B2B, SaaS, Robotics, AI, and Software — sectors where geopolitical forces, including US-China trade tensions and a light regulatory touch on AI from the current administration, are actively reshaping investment strategy. The seed market in 2026 is characterized by tighter LP risk appetite and growing skepticism around unproven business models, which makes Eniac's operator-led, collaborative process a differentiator in founder sourcing.

Network

Vic co-founded Eniac with three partners — Nihal Mehta, Tim Young, and Hadley Harris — all of whom remain active at the firm. Hadley Harris has been publicly vocal in 2026, notably expressing skepticism about SpaceX's $60 billion AI deal with Cursor. No external network edges were surfaced beyond the founding partnership.

Nihal Mehta· Co-Founding General Partner, Eniac Ventures
Tim Young· Co-Founding General Partner, Eniac Ventures
Hadley Harris· Co-Founding General Partner, Eniac Ventures

How they likely show up

Long tenure at Eniac (co-founded September 2008, still Founding GP in 2026) → thinks in fund cycles and decade-long founder relationships, not quarterly deal metrics.
Career arc from software developer → operator (Kanvas, acquired by AOL) → investor → side-project CEO (Originalis AI) → high agency, likely most engaged when he can be hands-on with a founder's technical problem.
Founded a company that was acquired, then immediately started a VC firm → has genuine founder empathy, not theoretical sympathy; probably calls out pitches that don't reflect operational reality.
Posts actively on LinkedIn about VC philosophy, AI investing, and portfolio news → comfortable being visible and articulate in public; likely responds well to substantive engagement with his stated views.
Personal interests listed as sandboxing and technical experimentation → still wired as an engineer underneath the GP role; probably goes deep on product and architecture in diligence.
Currently running Originalis AI as CEO alongside full-time GP work → high tolerance for context-switching and parallel commitments; likely values founders who can do the same.

Conversation tips

→ Reference the Kanvas-to-AOL arc early — it's the credibility anchor that separates him from paper VCs, and he'll have stories about what the acquisition process taught him.
→ Engage with his LinkedIn views specifically — he posts on VC philosophy and AI investing, so citing a named post or position signals you've done more than a quick Google.
→ Ask about Originalis AI — it's a current bet he's making as a practitioner, not just an observer, and the tension of running a startup while leading a fund is worth probing.
→ Come with a technical or product opinion, not just a market map — his engineering background means he reads deeply on the 'how,' and generic market-size decks won't land.
→ Don't treat him as a generalist fund manager — Eniac has a specific collaborative, founder-first process with mandatory round-robins; show you understand what that means in practice.

Toolbox

Openers

Open on Originalis AI — he's CEO of an AI company in Brooklyn while serving as Founding GP, a specific bet that tells you something about how he processes conviction; ask what problem it's solving that his portfolio companies aren't.
Lead with the Fund IV close in May 2026 — raising $125M against a backdrop of higher borrowing costs and market correction is a story worth unpacking, and he'll have views on what LPs are demanding right now.
Reference the Kanvas acquisition by AOL — he went from operator to VC immediately after the exit, and the sequence (engineering → startup → acquisition → fund founding) is unusual enough to anchor the whole conversation.

Discovery questions

Eniac's process is built around mandatory round-robin partner meetings and open feedback — how does that change the speed or quality of the decisions you make at seed, where conviction often has to outrun data?
You've done full-stack development, founded and sold Kanvas, and now you're running Originalis AI alongside the fund — when you're sitting across from a technical founder, what do you look for that a non-operator investor would miss?
With Fund IV closed at $125M and Eniac's focus shifting toward national-security technologies alongside B2B and SaaS, how is geopolitical pressure actually changing the kinds of founders who come to you first?

Avoid

Don't approach him as a generalist seed check-writer — Eniac has a named, structured collaborative process and a specific operator-first identity, and treating him like an interchangeable fund partner will read as unprepared.

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