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Founder314Current founder
97th percentile
Investor41Current investor
79th percentile
Combined
Co-Founder & CTO of Meesho, India's $4.9B social commerce unicorn
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Technical Depth · 95th percentile
- Founded the company behind meesho/BharatMLStack, a flagship open-source project with 693 stars on GitHub.
- Stack Overflow reputation of 931 (top tags: ubuntu, amazon-ec2, android).
- Identified Stack Overflow account for Sanjeev Barnwal with 931 reputation.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current Founder and CTO of Meesho, actively running the company since December 2015.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Meesho was co-founded with Vidit Aatrey, confirming co-founders.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)IIT Delhi GOLD (Graduates of Last Decade) Award 2021 — an elite alumni recognition from one of India's top engineering institutions.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Meesho is a Y Combinator Summer 2016 (S16) startup.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)85,139 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Meesho last raised at a ~$4.9 billion valuation (Series F, 2021), per TechCrunch reporting.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)meesho.com ranks #29,509 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 award — a notable industry recognition for Sanjeev Barnwal and Vidit Aatrey for revolutionizing social commerce in India.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Google maintains a Knowledge Graph panel for Sanjeev Barnwal as Co-Founder of Meesho — a hard-to-manufacture notability threshold.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Founded the company behind meesho/BharatMLStack, a flagship open-source project with 693 stars on GitHub.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Wikidata / notability: IIT Delhi GOLD Award recipient.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Stack Overflow reputation of 931 (top tags: ubuntu, amazon-ec2, android).
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Identified Stack Overflow account for Sanjeev Barnwal with 931 reputation.
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with a portfolio of approximately 20–23 investments including Oolka, Snabbit, and SolarSquare.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)CBInsights reports 18 investments; Inc42 reports 23 total investments as an angel investor.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Approximately 6 years of angel investing experience based on publicly documented investment activity.
What you likely need
As the technical co-founder and CTO of one of India's largest e-commerce unicorns, you'd benefit most from events that connect you with other late-stage founder-operators navigating scale, AI adoption, and potential liquidity paths. Your active angel portfolio also makes high-signal investor-founder crossover gatherings particularly valuable for deal flow and co-investment opportunities.
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 YC S16 founder dinner to reconnect with batchmates now at growth or pre-IPO stage for warm intros to late-stage investors and strategic advisors.
- tacticalA roundtable for CTOs of Indian unicorns on AI-native engineering org design, given Meesho's 70%+ AI-generated code milestone.
- fundraisingA private dinner with founders and bankers who have navigated Indian tech IPOs to pressure-test Meesho's readiness and timing.
- introsAn angel investor syndicate dinner with other IIT-alumni founders-turned-investors to share deal flow across India's early-stage ecosystem.
- tacticalA workshop on AI-driven personalization in consumer commerce with founders building in India's next-gen retail and social commerce space.
- hiringA hiring roundtable for CTOs of 1,000+ person engineering orgs to share playbooks for recruiting senior AI/ML talent in India's competitive market.
- wellbeingA small wellbeing dinner for founders who have been building for 8+ years, focused on sustaining energy and clarity through the growth-stage grind.