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Founder63Current founder
75th percentile
Investor17Current investor
59th percentile
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Serial technical founder building AI infrastructure for hardware procurement, backed by Foundation Capital and NFX
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Operator · 97th percentile
- Current co-founder and CEO of TradeForm, an AI infrastructure company for hardware procurement, founded in 2026.
- TradeForm is backed by Foundation Capital, NFX, Z Fellows, and leading hardware/supply chain angels — a named institutional syndicate for a company founded in early 2026.
- TradeForm has co-founders — Aryan Mishra and Ankur Senapati are named co-founders alongside Kedaar.
- Won the 2021 Congressional App Challenge for CivicSense and placed 1st out of 3,000 in a global youth entrepreneurship competition — recognized for early-stage founder achievement.
- Z Fellow — a recognized competitive fellowship for top student founders.
- FashionWeek co-founder (2025–2026), a fashion platform that reached 1M followers and 100K users.
- Participated in the Mayfield AI Garage program at UC Berkeley — a curated cohort for early-stage AI founders.
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- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)6,341 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current co-founder and CEO of TradeForm, an AI infrastructure company for hardware procurement, founded in 2026.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)TradeForm has co-founders — Aryan Mishra and Ankur Senapati are named co-founders alongside Kedaar.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Past founder of OmniCreate, a motor skills tool company for children with autism that was acquired.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Demonstrates personal technical depth: researcher at Berkeley AI Research on hierarchical abstraction for vision language models, prior researcher at Stanford AI Lab building LLMs for music and fake news detectors, and published in Nature Medicine.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)TradeForm is backed by Foundation Capital, NFX, Z Fellows, and leading hardware/supply chain angels — a named institutional syndicate for a company founded in early 2026.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Z Fellow — a recognized competitive fellowship for top student founders.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Deep domain expertise in AI/ML systems, hardware procurement, and medical mixed-reality, evidenced by multi-year research roles at Berkeley AI Research, Stanford AI Lab, and UCSF.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Featured in Stealth Startup Spy as a serial technical founder with a prior exit — a third-party editorial profile.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Won the 2021 Congressional App Challenge for CivicSense and placed 1st out of 3,000 in a global youth entrepreneurship competition — recognized for early-stage founder achievement.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)OmniCreate was acquired (exit value undisclosed; LinkedIn states it was built and sold).
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)FashionWeek co-founder.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Participated in the Mayfield AI Garage program at UC Berkeley — a curated cohort for early-stage AI founders.
Investor score
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Currently a Venture Partner at V11, a venture capital firm, as a founding team member.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Approximately 1–2 years of investing experience as Venture Partner at V11 since January 2025.
What you likely need
You're a serial technical founder with institutional backing from Foundation Capital and NFX, a prior acquisition exit, and deep AI/ML research credentials from Berkeley and Stanford. Your most pressing needs right now are accelerating TradeForm's early customer traction in hardware procurement, expanding your investor network for a potential seed or Series A, and connecting with other technical founders in the AI infrastructure and supply chain space. Events that bring together deep-tech founders, hardware/manufacturing operators, and early-stage investors would be highest-signal for you.
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- introsAn NFX portfolio founders dinner to build warm relationships with other NFX-backed companies and surface potential enterprise design partners for TradeForm.
- tacticalA Foundation Capital seed-stage roundtable with other portfolio founders to pressure-test TradeForm's go-to-market motion in hardware procurement.
- positioningAn AI infrastructure technical founders dinner (Berkeley/Stanford alumni focus) to exchange notes on enterprise sales cycles and product-led growth for developer tools.
- fundraisingA happy hour with hardware and supply chain operators from Fortune 100 companies to validate TradeForm's procurement automation thesis and land design-partner pilots.
- hiringA Z Fellows cohort networking dinner to connect with other Z Fellow founders for co-founder intros, early hires, and seed-stage fundraising warm introductions.
- fundraisingA workshop for serial founders who have had prior acquisitions, focused on how to leverage exit credibility when pitching institutional investors for a second company.
- tacticalA UC Berkeley M.E.T. alumni roundtable with other technical founders to share lessons on scaling from research prototype to enterprise product.