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.