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Serial founder and angel investor now building Sakin AI
Credibility
Exits & Outcomes · 45th percentile
- Publicly identified as an angel investor, including an angel investment in Reality AI (acquired by Renesas Electronics).
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)GitHub account has only 2 public repos, below the 10-repo threshold for active builder bonus.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)GitHub account is dormant: most recent public push was approximately 909 days ago (over 2 years), with no pushes in the last 12 months.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account @Saumiln identified and linked from LinkedIn profile.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Current founder and CEO of Sakin AI, an AI-powered B2B workflow automation company.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Past founder of Evri, Chalkboard, and Sydus across multiple decades.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Co-founded Evri with Vicki Guan, and co-founded Chalkboard and Sydus, confirming multiple ventures had co-founders.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Raised $3M for Chalkboard, working with investors including Joi Ito, Reid Hoffman, and the Omidyar Network.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Raised approximately $3M for Chalkboard per LinkedIn profile, plus Evri was a funded company per Tracxn.
Investor score
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Publicly identified as an angel investor, including an angel investment in Reality AI (acquired by Renesas Electronics).
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Nanavati Family Office has invested in 3 companies as of 2026, primarily in seed-stage India-based companies.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Has been investing since approximately 2012 based on the Golden Gate Ventures investor/advisor role, giving roughly 13 years of investing experience.
What you likely need
You're a seasoned operator with a compelling track record that isn't yet fully visible to the investors and technical talent you need to reach for Sakin AI's seed raise. The highest-leverage Festival events for you are intimate dinners and roundtables that put you in front of B2B SaaS and AI workflow investors who respond to Fortune 500 operator credibility, plus sessions that help you sharpen your public narrative and find a technical co-founder. Getting warm intros through your On Deck and enterprise alumni networks will compress your fundraising timeline significantly.
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 pre-seed and seed investor dinner focused on B2B SaaS and AI workflow automation, where your $0-to-$440M revenue scaling story and prior $3M Chalkboard raise serve as the anchor for pitching Sakin AI to funds actively writing first checks
- introsAn On Deck Fellowship alumni roundtable connecting fellow ODF founders and affiliated seed investors for warm introductions specifically targeting B2B AI and workflow automation bets
- positioningAn Apple and TiVo enterprise alumni dinner for former Fortune 500 operators-turned-founders to swap pitch positioning tactics and make introductions to enterprise-focused B2B AI investors who weight operator pedigree heavily
- hiringA technical co-founder matching happy hour for repeat founders with validated B2B product theses who need a CTO or founding engineer, modeled on the co-founder pairing events that have worked for Chalkboard-stage companies
- positioningA founder narrative workshop where serial operators with 15-plus years of domain depth workshop a public essay or case study — the kind that turns an invisible 'operating manual' insight into a seed-stage positioning asset visible to investors and recruits
- introsA deep-tech angel and emerging LP dinner where early backers of acquired AI companies — including Reality AI-to-Renesas-style exits — share deal sourcing frameworks and use their track records to build credibility with co-investors and family office LPs
- tacticalA build-in-public demo night for AI workflow and automation founders shipping open-source tooling or GitHub demos, designed to help founders like you revive technical credibility signals and get real-time feedback from developer-adjacent investors
- fundraisingA B2B AI pitch deck teardown office hours session with seed-stage investors who focus on workflow automation, where you can pressure-test how prominently your Apple, TiVo, and $440M revenue anchors land in the Sakin AI narrative