Fireside chat with Ashu Garg (Foundation Capital)

​Note: This is an in-person event

Join the BITSAA Silicon Valley Chapter for an Exclusive Fireside Chat with Ashu Garg - General Partner, Foundation Capital.

​Ashu Garg has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs and backed some of the most iconic enterprise startups of our time. In this fireside conversation, Ashu will reflect on his journey — as an operator, investor, and guide to founders — and share candid insights on building enduring companies, navigating the AI revolution, and scaling with purpose.

​About Ashu:

​Ashu works with startups across the enterprise stack. He is particularly excited about how AI is reinventing existing software categories and creating new consumer experiences. And he has invested in AI-enabled business applications, AI infrastructure, the datastack cyber-security and online video.

​Ashu is an early investor in one decacorn (Databricks) and six unicorns (Cohesity, Eightfold, Amperity, Turing, Anyscale, and Alation) … so far. He also serves on the boards of Anvilogic, Arize, Coefficient, Conviva, Fortanix, Ikigai Labs, OpsMx, Skyflow, and Docket. In addition, Ashu was responsible for Foundation Capital’s investments in Aggregate Knowledge (acquired by Neustar), Custora (acquired by Amperity), FreeWheel (acquired by Comcast), TubeMogul (acquired by Adobe), and Tubi.tv (acquired by Fox).

​Ashu is passionate about helping technical founders find product-market fit, and scale as CEOs. His podcast B2B a CEO has featured Eric Yuan, Ali Ghodsi, Jennifer Tejada, Aaron Levie, and Frank Slootman.

​Before joining Foundation Capital in 2008, Ashu was the general manager for Microsoft’s online-advertising business and led field marketing for the software businesses. Previously, Ashu worked at McKinsey & Company, helping technology companies scale their go-to-market efforts. Earlier in his career, Ashu founded TringTring.com, one of the first search engines in Asia, set up Unilever’s Nepal operations, and led the marketing and pre-sales teams at Cadence Design Systems.

​Ashu has a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management at Bangalore, where he received the President’s Gold Medal.

Capacity is limited, so reserve your spot now!

​Please note:
1. All bookings are final. No cancellations or refunds will be processed.
2. This is an in-person only event. We do not have an option to attend this virtually.