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Upekkha co-founder with 50+ pre-seed AI bets now building Kalmantic AI Labs
Credibility
Portfolio Scale · 85th percentile
- Made 50+ active investments through Upekkha across pre-seed AI and SaaS startups.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current co-founder of Upekkha, an AI SaaS accelerator and fund.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Multiple companies co-founded with partners, including Motvik, Advetta, and Upekkha.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Past co-founder of Motvik (mobile video streaming app) and Advetta (AI/computer vision startup).
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Co-authored two books on AI including 'Peak Inference' and 'Model Is the Easy Part', and runs Kalmantic AI Labs — public signal of an active, operating venture.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)GitHub org account identified for Kalmantic Labs (@Kalmantic) with 11 public repos.
- 62%Probability of being accurate (62%)Kalmantic Labs GitHub org has 11 public repos, qualifying as an active builder.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Kalmantic Labs GitHub org had 11 repo pushes in the last 12 months (most recent push 96 days ago).
- 45%Probability of being accurate (45%)Has a dev.to account presence (@thiyagarajan).
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Managing Partner and co-founder of Upekkha, an AI SaaS accelerator and venture fund.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Publicly identified as an angel investor making 50+ pre-seed AI bets through Upekkha.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Made 50+ active investments through Upekkha across pre-seed AI and SaaS startups.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)VC Fellow at Coolwater Capital, a program for emerging VC managers.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that put you in front of US-based LPs and institutional VCs who can scale Upekkha beyond its current fund size, especially through your Coolwater Capital fellow network. Dinners and roundtables that blend applied AI researchers with enterprise buyers would also unlock the India-US corridor introductions that are your structural edge. Technical founder gatherings where open-source AI tooling and inference benchmarking are the shared language would help you convert Kalmantic's research credibility into stars, contributors, and positioning.
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 Coolwater Capital VC Fellows dinner with fellow fund managers and institutional LPs to pressure-test Upekkha's fund thesis and surface co-investment and LP commitments
- introsA roundtable for India-headquartered SaaS accelerator founders and US enterprise procurement leads to broker warm introductions between Upekkha portfolio companies and American buyers
- tacticalA happy hour for applied AI researchers and ML infra founders actively publishing on arXiv and shipping open-source benchmarks, to drive contributors and stars to AgentSecBench and peakinfer-vscode
- positioningA dinner for founders and researchers building MoE routing, inference optimization, and LLM evaluation tooling — the exact audience to seed the Peak Inference Forum leaderboard and establish it as the canonical benchmark community
- fundraisingAn office hours session pairing sub-$50M emerging fund managers with family office and institutional LPs actively backing India-focused or global SaaS funds, timed to Upekkha's formal fundraise announcement
- introsA dinner for Fortune and Forbes Council contributors who are also active fund managers, to swap LP relationship warm intros and compare how they've converted media presence into credible investor brand
- tacticalA tactical workshop for technical founders with dormant Substacks and dev.to accounts — modeled on high-performing posts about inference benchmarking and AI architecture — to publish a first article on NemoClaw or MoE routing before leaving the room
- positioningA roundtable for accelerator fund managers who have navigated portfolio exits or unicorn outcomes, to help Thiyagarajan structure Upekkha's exit narrative and LP pitch around its strongest portfolio signals