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Arissa Zheng
Managing Director
Sanjay Adhikesaven
Managing Director
Aadith Kannan
Director of Batch
Hy Nguyen
Director of Sponsorship
Mahika Valluri
Director of Community and DEI
Aathma Muruganathan
Associate
Ashni Sheth
Associate
Gatik Trivedi
Associate
Nidhi Gaonkar
Associate
Om Gole
Associate
Swara Agarwal
Associate
Pavit Singh
Senior Advisor, Ex-Managing Director
Ishaan Shah
Senior Advisor, Ex-Managing Director
Shrinandan Narayanan
Senior Advisor, Ex-Director
Alson Chan
Senior Advisor, Ex-Director
Kelly Hong
Senior Advisor, Ex-Director
Hriday Sheth
Senior Advisor, Ex-Director
Wesley Perronne
Senior Advisor
Rohan Taneja
Senior Advisor
Amy Zhuang
Senior Advisor
Radha Singh
Senior Advisor
Hiya Shah
Senior Advisor
Internal Alumni
Alexander Manes
Product Manager @ Abnormal Security
Christina Guo
Co-Founder @ Lookbk
Pranav Gulati
Product Manager @ Uber
Omkar Salpekar
Staff Software Engineer @ Facebook
Pratik Bhat
AI Product Lead @ Drata
Kathy Kong
Product Manager @ Zoom
Aashi Jawar
Product Marketing Intern @ TikTok
Alice Deng
Co-Founder @ Slope Tech
Daniella Wenger
Law Clerk @ Kirkland & Ellis
Blake LaFayette
Principal @ Alpine Investors
Farbod Nowzad
Co-Founder and CEO @ Cashmere
Abhay Malik
Founding PM @ Predibase
Jeff Feng
Partner @ Sierrawood
Amrit Ayalur
Senior Product Engineer @ Ellipsis Labs
Damini Satija
Director @ Amnesty Tech
Keyan Sarrafzadeh
Growth Product Manager @ Ramp
Kirtan Upadhyaya
Resident Physician @ UCI Health
Jeremy Fiance
Managing Partner in Berkeley @ The House Fund
Cameron Baradar
Advisor @ BAIR
Sam Kirschner
Vice President @ Village Global
Sean Linehan
Co-Founder & CEO @ Placement.com
Jasmine Stoy
Staff Product Manager @ Figma
Nikita Ashok
Senior Software Engineer @ Nourish
Adhiv Dhar
APM @ Twitter
Shaantam Chawla
Engineering Lead @ Privateer Space
Saneel Sreeni
Head of Special Projects @ Ritual Foundation
LuLu Holland
Head of Community & Marketing @ The House Fund
Maanav Khaitan
Building @ Infinity
Anjan Bharadwaj
Member of Technical Staff @ OpenAI
Adithya Paramasivam
ML Scientist @ Nabla Bio
Safwan Masood
Analyst @ Blackstone
Varun Nair
Growth Engineer @ Conversion
Aamir Hudda
Co-Founder & CEO @ Attain (YC W22)
Samiha Singh
Business Analyst @ McKinsey & Co.
Shlok Singh
Growth @ Doorstep AI
Radha Singh
Private Equity Analyst @ GI Partners
Mahika Valluri
Executive Operations @ Mercor
Hriday Sheth
Software Engineer @ Zip
Ishaan Shah
Associate @ Bain & Co.
Pavit Singh
Strategic Projects @ Scale AI
Alson Chan
Product Manager @ Datadog
Rohan Taneja
Software Engineer @ Vercel
Amy Zhuang
Student Venture Partner @ Picus Capital
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