Vic Singh

Who they are

Vic Singh is a Co-founder and General Partner at Eniac Ventures — he also founded Originalis AI, an AI operating system for private capital markets, and previously built Kanvas, a mobile creativity platform acquired by AOL.

Person

Vic co-founded Eniac Ventures in 2008 from scratch — a seed fund he built with Tim Young, Nihal Mehta, and Hadley Harris, all Penn engineering classmates. He came to that with a BSE in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from Penn (1999), an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Finance from Columbia Business School (2007), and a career that moved through full-stack software development, venture at DFJ Gotham, and a GP role at RRE Ventures. In between the employed track, he built two ventures: Kanvas, a mobile creativity platform that AOL acquired, and NearVerse, a proximity-based peer-to-peer mesh networking platform. He then founded Originalis AI in 2024 — an AI operating system and native system of work built specifically for private capital markets. He also built Tracks, a platform for building the experiential graph. His writing spans LinkedIn and Medium, covering AI investing philosophy, decentralized AI (co-authored with Dennis Cherian, November 2025), and the future of the boutique VC model — his 'AI and the Art of Venture' series runs to at least three parts. The through-line: an engineer who turned operator who turned investor, and who keeps building companies even while running one.

Company

Eniac's freshest move in 2026 is closing a fourth fund at $125 million for seed investments — timed into a challenging environment of higher borrowing costs and public market valuation corrections. Before that, in April 2024, the firm raised $220 million across two funds: $160 million for Fund VI and $60 million for Eniac Select Fund I, a follow-on vehicle. The firm is actively deploying: recent 2025 participations include Refold's $650 million seed round, Level AI's $39.4 million Series C, Cascala Health's $8.6 million Series A, Predoc's $30 million Series A (September 2025), and Mia Labs' $20 million Series A (January 2026). The portfolio now spans 133 tracked companies, with 12 unicorns and 2 decacorns, and the firm ranks #194 in the 2026 Power Law Global Investor Ranking. Eniac operates as a pure-play seed fund out of New York City, writing checks averaging $1.5 million to $9.5 million and doing roughly 10–15 deals annually.

Market

Eniac competes in the crowded seed-stage VC market against First Round Capital, a16z, Lerer Hippeau, Techstars, Sequoia, and Y Combinator, with BoxGroup and RTP Global as New York-specific peers. The firm differentiates on a founder-first, conviction-driven deal process with mandatory round-robin partner meetings — an operator-led model built by four engineering founders. The broader context in 2025–2026 is a sector shaped by AI investment surge (OpenAI closed a $122 billion private venture round in 2026), US-China geopolitical tensions pushing VCs toward digital-first and AI-native bets, and regulatory light-touch on AI driven by the US-China rivalry.

Network

Vic's closest working relationships are his three Eniac co-founders: Tim Young, Hadley Harris, and Nihal Mehta — the four have run the firm together since inception. On the writing side, he co-authored 'Decentralized AI' with Dennis Cherian on Medium in November 2025. He also appeared on the Venture Capital Edge podcast with Charlie O'Donnell, and serves as a Board Trustee at Inwood Academy for Leadership Charter School.

Tim Young· Co-founder and General Partner, Eniac Ventures
Hadley Harris· Co-founder and General Partner, Eniac Ventures
Nihal Mehta· Co-founder and General Partner, Eniac Ventures
Dennis Cherian· Co-author, 'Decentralized AI' (Medium, Nov 2025)
Charlie O'Donnell· Podcast host, Venture Capital Edge

How they likely show up

Co-founded Eniac from inception in 2008 and has run it for 17+ years → thinks in fund cycles and decade arcs, not deal-by-deal sprints.
Founded Kanvas (acquired by AOL), NearVerse, Tracks, and Originalis AI alongside a full-time GP role → high agency, builds in parallel, not just a check-writer.
Active public writer on LinkedIn and Medium with a named series ('AI and the Art of Venture') → comfortable being visible and staking positions, not just signaling.
BSE in Mechanical Engineering before pivoting to venture → likely brings a systems-thinking and first-principles lens to diligence, especially on technical founders.
Co-authored 'Decentralized AI' with an external collaborator in November 2025 → collaborative on ideas, not territorial about intellectual output.
Self-described interest in 'sandboxing' (technical experimentation) → probably dabbles hands-on with the technologies he backs, not purely a pattern-matcher.

Conversation tips

→ Reference a specific part of his 'AI and the Art of Venture' series — he's written at least three installments and will know immediately whether you've read it or not.
→ Ask about Originalis AI specifically — he founded it in 2024 while running Eniac, which is a pointed bet that VC operations are underbuilt for AI, and he'll have strong views on why.
→ Engage on the boutique VC model thesis — his writing argues for its return; don't come in assuming bigger funds win.
→ The Penn engineering background matters — he's not a finance-first investor; framing technical ideas concretely will land better than market-size abstractions.
→ Don't treat Eniac as just a New York fund — they co-invest nationally with a16z, First Round, and Sequoia, and Vic has operated across both coasts.

Toolbox

Openers

Open on Originalis AI — he founded it in 2024 as an AI operating system specifically for private capital markets, meaning he's actively betting that VC back-office and deal workflow is broken enough to rebuild from scratch, while still running Eniac.
Reference the 'AI and the Art of Venture — Part I: The Return of the Boutique VC Model' piece on LinkedIn Pulse — it's a named, specific argument about where he thinks the industry is going, and citing it signals you've done the work.
Mention the 'Decentralized AI' piece he co-authored with Dennis Cherian in November 2025 — it's his most recent major publication and a signal of where his conviction is sitting right now on the technical side.

Discovery questions

You founded Originalis AI in 2024 while running Eniac — what did you see in VC operations that convinced you the problem was big enough to build a company around?
The 'Decentralized AI' piece you co-authored in late 2025 — how does that thesis actually change what you look for at seed, or which deals you pass on?
Eniac just closed a fund at $125 million into a market with higher borrowing costs and valuation corrections — how do you think about seed sizing and check strategy when the Series A market is under pressure?

Avoid

Don't pitch decentralized AI or the boutique VC model as a novel idea — he's already publicly staked his position on both and will be evaluating whether you've engaged with his thinking, not heard it for the first time.

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