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3x founder with 2 exits (Dhingana, Mezi to Amex), now CEO of Zeni
Credibility
Portfolio Scale · 95th percentile
- Has made approximately 40 active investments across early-stage startups including Observe AI, Sibros, Matician, and Mitigata.
- Publicly identified as an angel investor in 40+ early-stage startups.
- General Partner at Twin Ventures, an AI-focused angel/venture fund based in Palo Alto.
- Active GP and fund manager running Twin Ventures, an early-stage AI-focused investment fund.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Current founder and CEO of Zeni, an AI-powered bookkeeping platform for startups.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Past founder of Dhingana (acquired by Rdio) and Mezi (acquired by American Express).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)zeni.ai ranks #283,120 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)11,541 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Dhingana was acquired by Rdio (acquisition price undisclosed).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Mezi was acquired by American Express for $150M.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Zeni was co-founded with his twin brother, confirming co-founders across his companies.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Zeni has raised $47.5M in total funding across 2 rounds.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Zeni is a profitable and operationally active company managing $20 billion in finances annually across 1,000+ customers.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Publishes on dev.to as @swapnilshinde (account presence confirmed).
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)Identified Stack Overflow account for Swapnil S. with 13 reputation.
Investor score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Publicly identified as an angel investor in 40+ early-stage startups.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)General Partner at Twin Ventures, an AI-focused angel/venture fund based in Palo Alto.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Has made approximately 40 active investments across early-stage startups including Observe AI, Sibros, Matician, and Mitigata.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Active GP and fund manager running Twin Ventures, an early-stage AI-focused investment fund.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Has approximately 8 years of investing experience, having started Twin Ventures in 2018.
What you likely need
You're a 3x founder with two successful exits and an active GP role at Twin Ventures, making you a rare operator-investor with deep credibility in AI and fintech. At Zeni, you're scaling an AI-first finance platform with real revenue and 340 employees, so your most pressing needs are late-stage growth capital, senior GTM talent, and distribution partnerships. Your 40+ angel investments and GP role also mean you'd benefit from deal-flow networks and co-investor relationships with other active early-stage funds.
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 curated dinner for AI-first fintech founders (Brex, Ramp, Mercury alumni) to share Series B/C growth playbooks and warm intros to growth-stage investors.
- introsA co-investor roundtable with other micro-VC GPs and angel syndicates focused on AI infrastructure to share deal flow and co-lead early-stage rounds.
- tacticalA CEO peer group dinner for Series B operators managing 300+ person teams to pressure-test org design, executive hiring, and culture at scale.
- tacticalA workshop on enterprise GTM for AI SaaS founders who closed their first 100 customers founder-led and are now building a repeatable sales motion.
- positioningA happy hour for 2x+ exited founders now building their third company to share lessons on avoiding early-stage mistakes and accelerating product-market fit.
- hiringA roundtable for fintech CEOs hiring their first VP of Sales and VP of Marketing to share candidate pipelines and compensation benchmarks.
- wellbeingA networking dinner for founders who have been through large-company acquisitions (American Express, Google, Salesforce) to share earnout and re-founding strategies.