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46th percentile
Zomato-exited founder now building AgTech startup Rize with Temasek and Breakthrough Energy backing
Credibility
Traction · 70th percentile
- WOTU was acquired by Zomato in 2018 and rebranded as Hyperpure — a confirmed exit.
- Rize was co-founded as a joint venture, indicating co-founders were involved in building the company.
- Rize has raised $14M in total funding across its backers including Temasek, Wavemaker Impact, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and GenZero.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)WOTU was acquired by Zomato in 2018 and rebranded as Hyperpure — a confirmed exit.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Past founder of WOTU (later rebranded as Hyperpure by Zomato).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current founder and CEO of Rize, an AgTech startup.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Rize has raised $14M in total funding across its backers including Temasek, Wavemaker Impact, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and GenZero.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Rize was co-founded as a joint venture, indicating co-founders were involved in building the company.
- 40%Probability of being accurate (40%)Stack Overflow account identified for Dhruv Sawhney with 21 reputation.
What you likely need
You'd get the most from Festival events that put you in the room with climate-focused LPs and Series A fund managers who already back AgTech and food-systems decarbonisation. Peer dinners with other founder-operators who've navigated emerging-market supply chains would sharpen your Southeast Asia expansion playbook and surface warm corporate partnership intros. Smaller, curated gatherings focused on carbon-credit monetisation and ESG capital will help you layer a new revenue story onto Rize before your next raise.
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.
- fundraisingA dinner with portfolio founders backed by Congruent Ventures, Regeneration.VC, and Breakthrough Energy Ventures to pressure-test Rize's Series A narrative and surface warm LP introductions
- positioningA roundtable with AgTech operators and sustainability journalists to workshop a LinkedIn thought-leadership angle on rice decarbonisation that drives inbound from farmers, offtakers, and ESG investors
- introsA dinner with YC-backed climate and agri-supply-chain founders (recent S22/W23/S23 batches) to explore whether a YC application accelerates Rize's Southeast Asia expansion and opens the YC deal network
- hiringA happy hour with senior engineering leaders from Ninjacart, DeHaat, and Twiga Foods alumni networks to identify a CTO or VP Engineering who can own Rize's traceability and supply-chain tech platform
- tacticalA roundtable with founders who have completed Verra or Gold Standard voluntary carbon credit certification in agriculture to map the fastest path for Rize's rice-cultivation decarbonisation work to generate certified credits
- tacticalA dinner with corporate sustainability heads from Wilmar, Olam, and CP Group alongside Indonesian and Vietnamese agri-ministry advisors to formalise anchor offtake and government partnership conversations for Rize
- wellbeingA peer dinner for serial founders who have navigated a high-growth exit and are now building again in climate or deep-tech, focused on structuring recovery rhythms and sustaining performance across a 25-plus-year operating career