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A $4,000 Fine Built Harshvardhan Kariwala's Compliance Machine
A forgotten filing cost his bootstrapped startup $4,000. Then a city found the little tool he built to stop it happening again - and accidentally gave him his next company.
Arpan Shah
Arpan Shah is a General Partner at Spark Capital in San Francisco, where he leads early-stage investments in AI, fintech, and data infrastructure. A Stanford-trained engineer from Kolkata, he was on the founding team at Robinhood, later founded Flannel (acquired by Plaid in 2021), and was a partner at Pear VC and a Sequoia Scout before joining Spark in November 2024.
Siddharth Jhunjhunwala
Siddharth Jhunjhunwala is the Founder and CEO of Web Spiders Group and co-founder of SpiderX AI, a San Francisco-based enterprise AI company he has been building since 2000. Starting his entrepreneurial journey in 1995 with network solutions out of Kolkata, he has grown Web Spiders into a 290-person global operation spanning San Jose, London, Singapore, and India, known for products like Gecko (an emotion-sensing AI recruiter that appeared on BBC One's The One Show), e2m.live (an enterprise event management platform), and SpiderX's conversational AI suite used across banking, retail, and government sectors.