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52nd percentile
15-year DOSA co-founder and angel now leading operations at Priya Living
Credibility
Operator · 81th percentile
- Currently serving as Head of Strategic Operations at Priya Living, an operator role at a company he is closely associated with as an entrepreneur.
- Featured profile in Eater SF spotlighting his role as owner and operator of DOSA, a recognized San Francisco restaurant.
- Past founder and CEO of DOSA, a modern Indian food and beverage restaurant brand in San Francisco, which he ran for nearly 15 years.
- DOSA was co-founded with Emily Mitra, confirming a co-founder relationship.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Past founder and CEO of DOSA, a modern Indian food and beverage restaurant brand in San Francisco, which he ran for nearly 15 years.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)DOSA was co-founded with Emily Mitra, confirming a co-founder relationship.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Currently serving as Head of Strategic Operations at Priya Living, an operator role at a company he is closely associated with as an entrepreneur.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Featured profile in Eater SF spotlighting his role as owner and operator of DOSA, a recognized San Francisco restaurant.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)DOSA raised $3.6M in total funding across its restaurant operations.
Investor score
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Made at least one angel investment — a seed round in Traveling Spoon in September 2015.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Publicly identified as an angel investor, having backed Traveling Spoon's $870K seed round.
- 0%Probability of being accurate (0%)Investor score adjusted: only 1 confirmed investment and ~$870K deployed, limiting per-investment and per-dollar-deployed points to 1 and 0 respectively (already counted above); no additional rows needed.
What you likely need
You're a seasoned hospitality entrepreneur with nearly 15 years running DOSA and now driving operations at Priya Living, giving you deep expertise in food, beverage, and senior living. You'd benefit most from events that connect you with other founder-operators in consumer and hospitality, help you sharpen your go-to-market instincts for Priya Living's expansion, and open doors to mission-aligned investors in the senior living and wellness space.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA founder dinner for hospitality and food-and-beverage entrepreneurs to share operational playbooks and explore partnership opportunities in the Bay Area.
- fundraisingA roundtable with impact-focused investors backing senior living and aging-in-place startups to explore growth capital options for Priya Living.
- tacticalA tactical workshop on scaling consumer hospitality brands from single-market to multi-city, led by operators who have done it in the US and India.
- introsAn angel investor dinner for food-tech and consumer-lifestyle founders to swap deal flow and co-invest in early-stage companies like Traveling Spoon.
- hiringA hiring happy hour to connect with senior operations and hospitality talent interested in mission-driven senior living companies expanding to India.
- wellbeingA founder wellbeing retreat for serial entrepreneurs navigating the transition from running their own company to a senior operator role at a mission-driven startup.
- positioningA positioning workshop for Bay Area consumer brand founders on storytelling and press strategy to elevate Priya Living's profile in the US market.