
Mehul Bhatt is co-founder and CEO of FloCareer, an interview-as-a-service HR tech platform that dispatches expert freelance interviewers (plus AI proctoring) to run structured technical screens for enterprises. A former Cisco solutions architect with a Master's from Illinois Institute of Technology, he spent 16 years as an individual contributor before starting the company with Mohit Jain. FloCareer raised a $5.7M Series A in October 2021 and has conducted more than one million interviews for 600+ clients across the US and India.
Shameel Abdulla is the co-founder and CEO of Clootrack, an AI-driven Voice of Customer analytics platform used by enterprises to convert billions of customer conversations into decisions. A serial entrepreneur out of Bangalore, he previously built the mobile studio Kode Blink and the local-grocery marketplace Jiffstore, which PepperTap acquired in 2015. He started Clootrack with Subbakrishna Rao in 2017 and raised a $4M Series A led by Inventus Capital India in 2021.
Shashank Bijapur is co-founder and CEO of SpotDraft, an AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform used by in-house legal teams at companies including Airbnb. A Harvard Law LLM and former corporate attorney at White & Case in New York and Talwar Thakore & Associates in Mumbai, he started SpotDraft in 2017 after realizing that self-driving cars existed while lawyers still copy-pasted contract clauses. The company has raised roughly $90M in total funding, with a Series B led by Premji Invest, and employs around 330 people across India and the US.
Eximietas Design is a San Jose-headquartered engineering services firm that takes products from idea to silicon to intelligent ecosystem. Founded in 2023 by serial entrepreneur Jay Avula, its team covers the full stack of modern hardware and software - SoC and RTL-to-GDSII chip design, embedded firmware and board bring-up, and cloud, cybersecurity and AI/ML solutions. With roughly 600 engineers across the US and India and a leadership team that has collectively taped out more than 100 chips for the likes of Google, Cisco, Broadcom, Microsoft and Oracle, the company positions itself as a one-stop, full-cycle product development partner.
Subin Perumbidy is the co-founder and Head of Engineering at JIFFY.ai, a Palo Alto-based enterprise AI automation platform that raised $104M+ in funding. With over two decades building enterprise software across India and the US, he co-founded JIFFY.ai in 2018 alongside seven colleagues, many of whom were friends from college. The platform combines no-code development, intelligent document processing, RPA, and machine learning to help Fortune 500 companies in financial services, wealth management, and operations automate complex business processes without writing code.
Brendan Rogers is the co-founder and general partner of 2am VC, an India-only early-stage venture fund betting on the country's Gen Z founders. Before turning investor, he co-founded Wag!, the on-demand dog-walking app that listed on NASDAQ after raising over $360M, and a social discovery service later acquired by IAC. From bases in Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Los Angeles, he is one of the most visible American VCs operating inside India today.

Vedika Jain is General Partner at Weekend Fund, a pre-seed/seed fund with 350+ LP operators from Stripe, Figma, and Airbnb. She broke into VC by writing fantasy investment memos on public deals - standing out among 600+ applicants with zero capital deployed. Before Weekend Fund, she was the first PM at TrueLayer in London, scaling the fintech from 8 to 80+ employees. She co-founded Signature Block (a newsletter for emerging fund managers) with Ryan Hoover, and writes 'Draft mode' on Substack covering AI products, investing, and life. Her path ran from Bangalore to Berkeley to Stripe to London to San Francisco - five cities, multiple passports, one very deliberate climb.