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Aathma Muruganathan
Managing Director
Nidhi Gaonkar
Director of Sponsorship
Om Gole
Director of Community and DEI
Shreyash Goli
Director of Batch
Swara Agarwal
Senior Associate
Alex Han
Senior Associate
Amelia Khor
Senior Associate
Shivansh Soni
Senior Associate
Aryan Nangia
Associate
Carlos Ramirez
Associate
Divij Motwani
Associate
Juhi Mathur
Associate
Leo Xu
Associate
Nathan Guan
Associate
Arissa Zheng
Senior Advisor, Ex-Managing Director
Sanjay Adhikesaven
Senior Advisor, Ex-Managing Director
Aadith Kannan
Senior Advisor, Ex-Director
Gatik Trivedi
Senior Advisor, Ex-Director
Kelly Hong
Senior Advisor, Ex-Director
Shrinandan Narayanan
Senior Advisor, Ex-Director
Wesley Perronne
Senior Advisor, Ex-Director
Hiya Shah
Senior Advisor
Ashni Sheth
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
Chief of Staff - Engineering @ Mercor
Hriday Sheth
Software Engineer @ Zip
Ishaan Shah
Associate @ Bain & Co.
Pavit Singh
Strategic Projects @ Scale AI
Alson Chan
Investment Banker @ Bank of America
Rohan Taneja
Software Engineer @ Vercel
Amy Zhuang
Private Equity @ Ardian
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