We are proud to introduce the two newest BCV investors, associates Aditya Modak and Akhil Aggarwal!

They have joined the Growth team with a focus on investing in companies at the Series B stage and beyond, both based in San Francisco. Aditya will work on B2B SaaS and fintech deals, while Akhil will focus on investments in software infrastructure and cybersecurity.

We’re excited to have Akhil and Aditya on the team, and can’t wait for you to get to know them too. You can learn a little more about them, in their own words, below.

Aditya Modak

Where are you joining us from?

I joined from Battery Ventures where I previously focused on fintech, vertical SaaS and defense tech. While there, I had the chance to work with a wide range of companies from early stage to growth to even some private equity–owned companies. It was a great experience to understand how investing styles compare and contrast across strategies. Over time, I realized I wanted to focus my time on growth-stage founders whose companies and products are inflecting. I think the growth stage is interesting because it’s where a team takes a product that has found early product-market fit and begins to operationalize how to get that product into the hands of every customer who wants and needs it. BCV felt like the right place to align my interests in both stage and sector, so the move was a natural step.

How did you decide to get into venture?

Getting into venture was never a deliberate decision. I honestly fell into it. I went to the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin for undergrad, and like most finance majors, I thought I wanted to be an investment banker. While I was deep into recruiting, I started looking for internships and came across an externship with Battery Ventures. I had never heard of VC, tech investing, or Battery, but I applied anyway on a whim and was surprised to hear of my acceptance. Once the externship started, I quickly realized tech was where I wanted to be. Everything from sourcing to running diligence to learning about new industries through a tech lens just felt natural. I found myself doing more work in the externship, not to boost my odds of getting a banking job, but because I genuinely enjoyed it. I ended up working in that externship for about a year and a half, then took off half of my senior year to intern with Battery off-cycle. Eventually, I was given the opportunity to join the team full-time, and the rest is history.

What will you focus on at BCV?

My primary focus at BCV is fintech. Like the rest of the applications ecosystem, fintech is undergoing a radical shift due to AI, and a lot of the financial infrastructure that has underpinned our society is about to get a serious upgrade. Everything from banking rails to CFO tools, lending products and payments is evolving. This makes it one of the most exciting times to be a fintech investor. Outside of fintech, I also spend time in the broader application software universe, which is seeing similar changes — often on a larger scale.

What themes are most interesting to you right now?

Embedding AI into traditional workflows is a major focus. This could include automating accounting tasks, streamlining the financial close process or using AI to improve underwriting. Of course, there are many future applications of AI that we haven’t even imagined yet. Questions we’ve asked lately include: If agents begin transacting on behalf of users, what kind of financial infrastructure is needed to support that? Will AI create new purchasing channels, and what fintech tools will be needed to support them? I’m excited by both the consensus themes we’re seeing in the fintech space and the ones that are harder to understand today.

What types of founders would you like to meet?

I’m excited to meet founders who are ambitious, driven and full of grit. That last one is especially important, because every company’s journey is anything but a straight line. The ups, downs, twists and turns are inevitable. There is nothing more energizing than meeting founders who have the resilience and pain tolerance to face adversity and keep pushing forward. I want to be a partner to those founders and stand beside them as they build generational companies.

Akhil Aggarwal

Where are you joining us from?

I was born and raised in Cupertino and despite working in New York after college, I never left behind the mindset or momentum of growing up in Silicon Valley. Before BCV, I worked on mergers and acquisitions at J.P. Morgan but the experience taught me that I’m much more in my element tinkering with open-source code or reading a technical research paper than sitting in a boardroom studying financials or attending an investor conference.

How did you decide to get into venture?

Growing up in the Valley I learned that few things shape the world more than technology. My interest in AI began in high school when a friend showed me how anyone could train models with TensorFlow. In college, I built several underwhelming AI consumer apps and successfully shipped an AI model into AWS's endpoint security system in production. Like many, what keeps me hooked is the pace of acceleration in the field and the euphoric feeling that comes from creation. Investing in AI today feels like a dream job because the landscape changes so rapidly that I can approach every week with a beginner's mindset and think from first principles about which companies and products will truly matter tomorrow.

What will you focus on at BCV?

There are moments when everything changes at once, and it feels like we’re in one of those right now. In 2007, the iPhone and AWS S3 launched within months of each other, laying the foundation for a wave of apps that transformed how we live and work. The most iconic products didn’t arrive overnight, but once the pieces were in place, the momentum was unstoppable.

ChatGPT’s release in 2022 kicked off a similar shift. Cloud and mobile were massive, but generative AI might be even bigger. It’s incredibly intuitive to use, but still complex to build, which makes this moment especially exciting. 2025 feels like a generational window for building the infrastructure that will shape the next decade of AI. I’m lucky to work with founders building the tools that will help unlock what’s next.

What themes are most interesting to you right now?

AI code generation is still in its infancy. The 50-year-old rules of software development have been completely rewritten, yet much of the developer stack still feels eerily outdated. I am excited to see many groundbreaking companies emerge to bring us to an era of AI abundance. I like talking with founders who are deeply dissatisfied with current solutions, who understand how to meet developers where they are and amplify their capabilities.

What types of founders would you like to meet?

I seek out people who are driven by something personal and are willing to try and fail. What stands out to me is authenticity. The most compelling founders aren't just recycling others' ideas, but approaching problems based on pain they've experienced firsthand or deep empathy. They ship quickly and are customer-obsessed, then let the results compound.

I get goosebumps when I meet founders who are so passionate about challenging the status quo that they have no choice but to throw themselves into a problem head-on. Founders see insights before anyone else does, and my job is to recognize that early and believe in their vision before they make it reality.