VG

Varun Gupta

General Partner at Caffeinated Capital

New York, New York

VC
Investor

Invests in

Stages:

Series A
Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $300,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $500,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $400,000.00

Education

Lists including Varun

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Based in NYC

2600 people

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All Series A Investors

14752 people

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All Seed Investors

19695 people

Investments

Cedar

Seed

Total Funding: $330M

Federato

Series B

Total Funding: $40M

Blumen Systems

Seed

Total Funding: $1M

Ganymede

Series A

Total Funding: $16M

Spindle AI (www.spindle.ai)

Seed

Total Funding:

Known Medicine

Seed

Total Funding: $7M

Work Experience

CC
Caffeinated Capital

2020

  • General Partner

    2020

    We partner with founders as early as possible and invest throughout the life of the company. We have invested in fintech (Affirm, Aven, Brex), proptech (Opendoor, Divvy Homes, Loft), enterprise (Airtable, Deel, Docker, Notion, Playground AI), insurtech (AgentSync, Federato, Pathpoint), life sciences (BioAge, Ganymede, Spring Discovery), healthcare (Clipboard Health, Color, Virta Health), climate (Gravity, Impulse, Regent), and defense (Onebrief, Hadrian, Saronic, Varda). We're aggressively openminded and strive to be your most impactful investor.

AI
Affirm, Inc.

2017 - 2019

  • Data Science / Machine Learning

    2017 - 2019

    Tech lead and ML engineer for new production underwriting systems, generally learned how to be a productive person, and met some great colleagues

Tech

2013 - 2016

  • Software

    2013 - 2016

    Expanse (eventually acquired by $PANW, which I had nothing to do with), Wealthfront, Elementum (supply chain software), Stanford spatial history