Vinay Iyengar is an early-stage investor at Bessemer Venture Partners, where he focuses on frontier technology and machine intelligence. He also conducts research in Harvard Business School’s Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Previously, he was an investor with Clayton Christensen’s Rose Park Advisor, leading the firm’s exploration of machine intelligence as an enabler of disruption. Prior to entering the venture world, he cofounded a Harvard Innovation Lab-backed enterprise software startup and spent time as a quantitative trader at Goldman Sachs and a software engineer at Intel.