Founder Networking And Startup Community

I value the energy and persistence of founders, and I use conversations, introductions, and meetups to connect with people building ambitious companies.

On 2025-04-03, I celebrated Namma Bengaluru still leading by a small margin and congratulated Prateek Garg, Priyanshu Raj, Amogh Kulkarni, supreeth nag, Shlok Chaurasia, and Abhishek Jain on “our first one getting featured.” I wished all the founders luck with the upcoming hustle and encouraged them to keep pushing forward; the post did not specify what was featured.

On 2025-06-17, although I was booked in San Francisco Downtown for that day and the next, I was open to 1–2 quick coffee catch-ups. I invited founders, builders, people raising funds, and people passionate about AI, startups, or tech to talk. I was also open to meeting in Sunnyvale for the rest of the week and New York the following week; people could coordinate by DM or through my EA.

After a U.S. trip spanning LA, Seattle, SF, NYC, Chicago, and beyond, I returned with a stronger-than-ever conviction to back bold, world-shaping ideas. As a lifelong developer and CTO, networking does not come naturally to me, and I was grateful for the warmth, introductions, encouragement, practical support, thoughtful conversations, and guidance that helped me settle in and see the road ahead more clearly. I thanked Shubham Semwal and Rahul Gulati, my IIT Ropar batchmates Kumar Ashwani, Chaitanya Krishna, Gaurav Katoch, Abhishek B., Kunal Sachdeva, Suyash Pranjal, and Samit Chauhan, and Nitin Goel, Ishan Chhabra, Patrick Kelahan, Chander Chandak, Nitin Tambi, and Samir Saurav.

During that trip I encountered founders working on guided micro-missiles for Counter-UAS (https://lnkd.in/g-_YBYXn), high-precision optical fiber manufacturing in space (https://lnkd.in/gzeQT2nm), and smart surgical robots (https://lnkd.in/gHJ6K9Fq), as well as other startups. I also named DocketQA (https://www.docketqa.com/), Valarix (https://valarix.com/), and Pay-U (https://pay-u.io/). I invited people with whom I had connected but not closed the loop to DM me again so I could wrap things up properly.