Aatish Nayak

Aatish joined Kleiner Perkins as a partner in May 2026 where he focuses on partnering with AI native founders with deep vertical expertise across all domains.

Prior to joining Kleiner Perkins, Aatish was the first PM and VP of Product at Harvey, where he helped build the early product, design, marketing, analytics, and support teams. Before that he was an early product leader at Scale AI working on data infrastructure for ecommerce, early NLP (GPT-2), and autonomous vehicles. And before that he was at Shield AI working on the core knowledge stack for robotic defense systems that save lives.

Originally from New Jersey, he graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. When he’s not immersed in tech, he likes to travel the world, build legos, exercise, play golf, and nerd out about history.