Cyrus Hessabi

Cyrus is profoundly excited by technologies modernising the backbone of enterprises, transforming verticals, and/or rethinking services businesses, starting from the data layer. He also has a knack for deeply technical products and technologies safeguarding our sovereignty. He was born in France, grew up in the UK, then lived in the U.S. as well as Switzerland, speaking 4 languages and bridging contrasting cultures. Starting his career as a sales engineer at Salesforce, he witnessed the SaaS pioneer’s meteoric growth before becoming a VC investor at DN Capital, supporting enterprise software founders from Seed to Series B across Europe and the U.S. Previously, he also supported early-stage founders at Harvard, Stanford and Wharton with first-check investments at the MBA Fund. As an aerospace engineer by training, Cyrus draws a comparison between building a perennial, transformational company and building an aircraft: it takes thousands of moving parts assembled together correctly to take-off. His aim is to bring his diversified experiences, multi-cultural identity and infinite energy to help founders take flight. Cyrus holds an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College London.