# Vedika Jain

> Vedika Jain is General Partner at Weekend Fund, a pre-seed/seed fund with 350+ LP operators from Stripe, Figma, and Airbnb. She broke into VC by writing fantasy investment memos on public deals - standing out among 600+ applicants with zero capital deployed. Before Weekend Fund, she was the first PM at TrueLayer in London, scaling the fintech from 8 to 80+ employees. She co-founded Signature Block (a newsletter for emerging fund managers) with Ryan Hoover, and writes 'Draft mode' on Substack covering AI products, investing, and life. Her path ran from Bangalore to Berkeley to Stripe to London to San Francisco - five cities, multiple passports, one very deliberate climb.

- **Role:** General Partner at Weekend Fund
- **Organizations:** Weekend Fund, Signature Block, TrueLayer, Stripe, Kalaari Capital, Kairos Society
- **From:** Bangalore, India
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** B.A. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Coding Bootcamp (Full-Stack Web Development, Ruby on Rails), Le Wagon
- **Known for:** Stood out among 600+ applicants to Weekend Fund with original 'fantasy investment memos', Helped scale TrueLayer from 8 to 80+ employees as first Product Manager, Co-created Signature Block - reached 175,000 views in its first 3 months

## Career timeline

- **2011-2015** — B.A. Economics at UC Berkeley; consulting with The Berkeley Group; interned at Mithril Capital
- **2015-2016** — Risk Analyst at Stripe, San Francisco
- **2016** — Le Wagon coding bootcamp (Berlin); learned Ruby on Rails
- **Early 2017** — Consultant at Kalaari Capital, India
- **Jan-Aug 2017** — Director of Fellowship, India - Kairos Society
- **Oct 2017-Oct 2019** — First Product Manager at TrueLayer, London - scaled company from 8 to 80+ employees
- **Mar 2019** — Joined Weekend Fund as Chief of Staff (part-time, then full-time)
- **Nov 2022** — Promoted to Partner at Weekend Fund
- **Sep 2024** — Promoted to General Partner at Weekend Fund
- **2022** — Co-founded Signature Block newsletter with Ryan Hoover (175K views in first 3 months)
- **2024** — Relocated permanently to San Francisco; launched 'Draft mode' Substack (formerly forrealai)

## Achievements

- Stood out among 600+ applicants to Weekend Fund with original 'fantasy investment memos'
- Helped scale TrueLayer from 8 to 80+ employees as first Product Manager
- Co-created Signature Block - reached 175,000 views in its first 3 months
- Weekend Fund Fund 2: 117.9% IRR (top-performing fund in its vintage)
- Weekend Fund LP base grew to 2,250+ LPs, 350+ of whom are active operators
- Promoted from Chief of Staff to General Partner over a 5-year arc at Weekend Fund
- Authored 'State of the Chief of Staff in Tech' report, widely cited in the CoS community
- Earned 'Pull Shark' GitHub achievement twice
- Fund 1 performance: 36.6% IRR

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Title shifted to Venture Partner at Weekend Fund per The Org
- **2025-06** — Published 'The 7 Laws of Shipping AI Products in 2025' on Draft mode Substack
- **2024-09** — Promoted to General Partner at Weekend Fund
- **2024-01** — Relocated permanently to San Francisco after trial month in January 2024
- **2022-11** — Promoted to Partner at Weekend Fund; co-founded Signature Block with Ryan Hoover

## Links

- Website: https://vedikaja.in
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vedikajain/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/vedikaja_in
- GitHub: https://github.com/vedikaja-in
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vedika_jain/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vedikajain.350

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Last updated: 2026-04-25