# Varun Vummadi

> Varun Vummadi is the San Francisco-based cofounder and CEO of Giga, which builds AI agents for enterprise customer support. An IIT Kharagpur electrical-engineering graduate, he cofounded the company with college friend Esha Dinne, participated in YC’s Summer 2023 batch, and helped take the business through education and enterprise-model experiments before its customer-support focus. Giga announced a $61 million Series A led by Redpoint in November 2025 and works with DoorDash.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Giga
- **Organizations:** Giga, Y Combinator (Summer 2023), Forbes Technology Council (former member)
- **Education:** Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- **Known for:** Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2024, Enterprise Technology, with Esha Manideep Dinne., Cofounded Giga, a YC Summer 2023 company., Led Giga as it announced a $61 million Series A led by Redpoint on November 5, 2025.

## Career timeline

- **2019** — Began studying at IIT Kharagpur and met future cofounder Esha Dinne.
- **2023** — Graduated in electrical engineering; publicly announced declining a Stanford PhD offer and a $525,000 quant-trading offer to build Giga ML.
- **2023-05** — Introduced Giga Tutor publicly in a developer forum.
- **2023** — Joined YC’s Summer 2023 batch; moved from education toward enterprise LLM fine-tuning and deployment.
- **2023-10** — Giga ML announced a $3.6 million seed round led by Nexus Venture Partners.
- **2024** — Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia with Esha Manideep Dinne; company developed its AI-support focus.
- **2025-11** — Giga announced a $61 million Series A led by Redpoint and its DoorDash work.
- **2026-05** — YC published his Startup School India conversation with Ankit Gupta.
- **2026-07** — Giga introduced its CLI and Scout in Slack.

## Achievements

- Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2024, Enterprise Technology, with Esha Manideep Dinne.
- Cofounded Giga, a YC Summer 2023 company.
- Led Giga as it announced a $61 million Series A led by Redpoint on November 5, 2025.
- Described an eight-person Giga team winning a DoorDash contract against a roughly 400-person competitor at Startup School India.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Giga published a natural-voice demonstration on September 10 and research on teaching a frozen LLM to see on September 28; these are company releases, not personal milestones.
- **2026-07** — Giga launched its CLI on July 14 and Scout in Slack on July 27.
- **2026-05** — YC published his Startup School India interview with Ankit Gupta on May 29.
- **2025-11** — Giga announced its $61 million Series A led by Redpoint on November 5.

## Links

- Website: https://varunvummadi.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/varunvummadi
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/varunvummadi
- GitHub: https://github.com/varunvummadi

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Last updated: 2026-10-22