About
N. Darius Sankey, PhD is a founding General Partner at Sway Ventures, as well as a seasoned executive in the venture capital and technology industries. Before his work with Sway Ventures, Darius served as a Senior Director of Portfolio Management at Intellectual Ventures, a Managing Director at DFJ – Zone Ventures, and has served as a board member for several companies including Siimpel Corporation and Neven Vision (acquired by Google). He has worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, Inc. and held strategic planning, consulting, and R&D positions at RAND and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Darius holds a Ph.D. in Optical Engineering from the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester and a B.S. in Physics and Electrical Engineering from MIT. He is also an adjunct professor at Rady School of Business at the University of California, at San Diego (UCSD).
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 13 investors at Sway Ventures are tracked.
- • 1 investors hold the Advisor, Investing role in VCSift. Darius Sankey is one of them.
- • 2,641 investors are based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated June 2026.
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- Los Angeles, US
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