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Deedy Das
Partner at Menlo Ventures in San FranciscoMenlo VC investing in AI, SaaS and Infra. PrevPrevious: Founding team Glean, Google Search, Facebook. I write on my blog and XX. Message me at superdm.com/deedy.SuperDM me.
Writing
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Best Tweets
I write daily on X as @deedydas where I've had 750M+ views and occasionally chat with Elon.
How I lost 66lbs in 8 months
I write about the data-driven approach I used to go from 209lbs to 143lbs and 8% body fat. Featured on GQ.
Investing
Email I'm a Partner at Menlo Ventures where I invest in AI, Saas and Infra startups in the seed, A and B stage. We invest out of our $1.4B 16th fund and manage $8B+ in assets. I work with Anthropic, Pinecone and Suno and help run the $100M Anthology Fund with Anthropic.
I've helped lead investments into OpenRouter, Goodfire, Wispr Flow and Inception Labs. Angel investor in Perplexity, Cartesia and Fulcrum.
Email me at deedy [at] menlovc.com if you're a founder who wants to chat about fundraising or advice. Message me at superdm.com/deedy for startup jobs, speaking engagements and anything else.
I've helped lead investments into OpenRouter, Goodfire, Wispr Flow and Inception Labs. Angel investor in Perplexity, Cartesia and Fulcrum.
Email me at deedy [at] menlovc.com if you're a founder who wants to chat about fundraising or advice. Message me at superdm.com/deedy for startup jobs, speaking engagements and anything else.
Career
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Menlo Ventures
Venture investing in AI and Infra in Seed to Series B with Tim Tully, Joff, Kraning, Murphy and more.
Glean
Founding team with Arvind Jain. Started Glean Assistant. Backed by Kleiner, Sequoia and more. $7B valuation.
Search and machine learning in New York.
Education
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Cornell University
Top 10% of class. Bachelors and masters in Computer Science in 3.5yrs. Published research in robotics and linguistics.
La Martiniere for Boys
Went to a 200yr old French high school in Calcutta, India. Played chess and did national math olympiads (INMO).
Speaking
Book I've spoken on podcasts on career, technology, AI and machine learning, Glean, India, immigration, investing and my side projects. Here's why I care about doing this. Speaking:
Universities — Stanford University, Harvard Business School, Wharton at UPenn, Kellogg at Northwestern, UC Berkeley, UWarwick, UTexas Austin and in India: IIT Bombay, BITS Pilani and NIT Trichy.
Conferences — Digital Transformation Week, Palo Alto Networks AI Day, Google Cloud Next, SwissCognitive AI Conference, Innovation Center Denmark, KQED News and TEDx Bangalore Podcasts: Sourcery with Molly O' Shea [TBD], WTF with Nikhil Kamath, This Week in Startups with JCal, Latent Space (II), CNBC with Shereen Bhan, Ctrl Alt Podcast, Singh in USA, Ventures with Grace, 1947 Rise, The Aarthi and Sriram Show, AI50 with Hanh Brown, Nextplay with Ben Lang, Dojolive, Latent Space with swyx, Startup Project, Nvidia AI, Soul Searching, The Data Scientist Show, Infinite Machine Learning, AI in Action, ML with Jay Shah, Early Twenties Pod, and StackOverflow.
Universities — Stanford University, Harvard Business School, Wharton at UPenn, Kellogg at Northwestern, UC Berkeley, UWarwick, UTexas Austin and in India: IIT Bombay, BITS Pilani and NIT Trichy.
Conferences — Digital Transformation Week, Palo Alto Networks AI Day, Google Cloud Next, SwissCognitive AI Conference, Innovation Center Denmark, KQED News and TEDx Bangalore Podcasts: Sourcery with Molly O' Shea [TBD], WTF with Nikhil Kamath, This Week in Startups with JCal, Latent Space (II), CNBC with Shereen Bhan, Ctrl Alt Podcast, Singh in USA, Ventures with Grace, 1947 Rise, The Aarthi and Sriram Show, AI50 with Hanh Brown, Nextplay with Ben Lang, Dojolive, Latent Space with swyx, Startup Project, Nvidia AI, Soul Searching, The Data Scientist Show, Infinite Machine Learning, AI in Action, ML with Jay Shah, Early Twenties Pod, and StackOverflow.
News
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StarHealth Insurance data breach
Wrote about the StarHealth 31M customer data leak. In TimesNow, Business Standard and Fortune.
Dotpe API expose
Wrote about the Dotpe API breach. Featured in Times of India, India Today and Inc 42.
Apps with AI using Claude
Built Splitwise, AI image detection and more. Featured in Analytics India, Startup News and Mark Tech.
EB-1A "Genius" visa
Featured in Economist with the ensuing controversy covered on Times of India and AsiaNet.
Facebook-Netflix data sharing
Featured in Mashable, TechCrunch, ArsTechnica and more.
Google Gemini's "woke" AI images
Started the conversation which caused Gemini to lock down Gemini. In NPR, BBC, AlJazeera, DailyMail and many more.
Projects
Github
Deedy Resumé
Open-source two column minimalist resume template in Latex with ~5000 Github stars and 100k uses on Overleaf.
Wordle Solver
Built a solver for Wordle that boasts 100% accuracy and an average attempts of 3.65 on all 2300 candidate words.
IIT Alumni Tracker
Tracking outcomes for the top 250 JEE rankers from 2009-2016, the premier engineering college in India.
Grad School Admission Stats
Mining 372k datapoints from GradCafe to understand grad school admission stats by GPA and GRE.
Bollywood Playlist
A playlist maintained over a decade with over 1500 songs and 7500 likes on Spotify.
Fantasy Cricket Trading
Using binary integer programming and financial risk models to achieve top 2000 out of 400k in the IPL 2014.