Startups & Samosas

​🍷 Would love to invite you to a wonderful get-together in SF for some samosa, jalebi and an evening full of startups. 

​🪷 Bringing together all the wonderful desi founders and investors 🪷

​👋 Please do let us know if you’d like to bring an additional desi as capacity is limited.

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​Rak is a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where he works with companies like Decagon, Krea, Contextual, and Prophet Security. Before investing, he worked on enterprise adoption & security at Atlassian, and was originally born in Delhi before growing up in the Bay Area.  

​Gaurav leads AI and Infra investing at Mantis Venture Capital, an early-stage fund co-founded by The Chainsmokers. Prior to joining Mantis, he held product, and growth roles at Google. 

​​Umesh is an ex-founder who currently resides at Dropbox AI focusing on Dropbox Dash. Umesh is a prolific angel investor and scout at a16z partnering with various B2B startups such as Pylon, Datacurve AI, Assort Health and MirageML. He grew in Brampton, Ontario before moving to San Fransisco.

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​Misalignment Museum is a family friendly, 501(c)3 non-profit focused on creating interactive and educations art exhibits to help people learn about AI through thought-provoking and fun installations and events. 

​Since opening 2 years ago, they’ve become #6 on TripAdvisor, welcomed thousands of visitors (including founders of Google, OpenAI, Prime Ministers and Royalty). They’ve been featured on nearly every media publication in the world such as New York Times Article featuring them!