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Meta ML engineer turned angel investor backing early-stage AI startups
Credibility
Portfolio Scale · 75th percentile
- Named fund manager (GP) on three Kotak pooled investment fund SEC Form D filings: Kotak Optimus India Allocation Moderate Scheme, Kotak Iconic India Equity Feeder Fund, and Kotak Optimus India Allocation Aggressive Scheme.
- Partner/Principal at Kotak, a recognized investment firm, per SEC Form D filings.
- Made at least 4 active angel investments: Galini, WiseGuru, Recursal/Featherless AI, and LightMatter.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)meta.com ranks #794 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
Investor score
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Publicly identified as an angel investor, providing capital and mentorship to early-stage AI/ML startups since January 2024.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Made at least 4 active angel investments: Galini, WiseGuru, Recursal/Featherless AI, and LightMatter.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Approximately 1–2 years of active investing experience as an angel investor since January 2024.
- 45%Probability of being accurate (45%)Named fund manager (GP) on three Kotak pooled investment fund SEC Form D filings: Kotak Optimus India Allocation Moderate Scheme, Kotak Iconic India Equity Feeder Fund, and Kotak Optimus India Allocation Aggressive Scheme.
- 45%Probability of being accurate (45%)Partner/Principal at Kotak, a recognized investment firm, per SEC Form D filings.
What you likely need
You're a rare technical investor — a Meta ML engineer with real publication credibility and an early portfolio that needs more visibility and deal flow infrastructure around it. The Festival events most valuable to you are small, high-trust dinners and roundtables where you can co-invest alongside experienced angels, get warm intros into YC's AI compliance cohort, and sharpen a public thesis that makes your technical edge legible to founders and co-investors alike. Building that track record and syndicate presence now is the unlock for a micro-fund in 2–3 years.
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 Fall 2024 founder dinner with Galini and other YC AI compliance and governance startups for warm co-investment intros and deal-flow sharing
- introsAn AngelList and Hustle Fund Scout co-investor roundtable for technical angels looking to formalize their first syndicate and share deal flow beyond personal networks
- positioningA NeurIPS and IEEE alumni dinner for ML researchers turned angels to swap technical due diligence frameworks and advisory equity deal structures
- positioningA small working-session dinner for pre-fund angels to pressure-test and publish their first public investing thesis in AI infrastructure and compliance tooling
- fundraisingA Meta and big-tech ML practitioner happy hour for active angels to compare portfolio milestone tracking practices and build verifiable investing track records ahead of micro-fund raises
- tacticalA tactical office hours session with a fund formation attorney for angels navigating SEC Form D registrations and cleaning up public profiles before launching a formal micro-fund
- positioningA Kaggle Masters and competitive ML community roundtable for founders and investors to workshop public technical due diligence frameworks for AI startups on Substack or dev.to