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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!
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.
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