Raising $17 Million At 19 Years Old: Serena Ge // Umesh Khanna

​Serena Ge and Umesh Khanna join Akatos for an intimate, invite-only virtual fireside chat.

​Serena Ge (Waterloo CS dropout) is the CEO and cofounder of Datacurve (YC W24), an AI startup generating expert quality coding data for LLM training.

​They recently announced a $17.5 million USD seed and Series A fundraise from Y Combinator, Chemistry Fund, and employees of DeepMind, Vercel, Anthropic, and OpenAI.

​They are actively hiring for all roles!

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Umesh (SYDE ‘20) is a 2x founder, scout at a16z, and works at Dropbox AI!

​Umesh was one of Datacurve’s earliest investors. He also founded the Forward Deployed Angels community, a group of angel investors who are extremely helpful to founders at the earliest stages.

​​Previously, Umesh scouted for Sequoia Capital and was a key founding team member of multiple venture-backed startups.

Note: This event will be both online and in-person at Akatos House.