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In a post on the social media platform X, Deedy Das mentioned that each founder of these companies was part of the same Computer Science club at a high school in Delhi.
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Debarghya Das, widely known as Deedy Das, a partner at the Menlo Park-based Venture Capital (VC) fund Menlo Ventures, recently highlighted that the founders of several companies valued at over $100 million, established in the past decade, were members of a Computer Science club in a non-American high school. These companies include Cartesia, Inception Labs, General Catalyst CVF, Wispr Flow, Affinity, Snapdeal, Sugar, boAt, Mirage, and Fulcrum.
In a post on the social media platform X, Das mentioned that each founder of these companies was part of the same Computer Science club at a high school in Delhi. The post, which at the time had more than 485,000 views and over 1,600 likes, stated that the founders were part of the Exun Clan in Delhi Public School, RK Puram.
Every single one of these $100M+ companies were started by alumni from a single Computer Science club in a non-American high school.CartesiaInception LabsGeneral Catalyst CVFWispr FlowAffinitySnapdealSugarboAt
It’s Exun Clan in Delhi Public School, RK Puram in India. pic.twitter.com/ErJsLyx8br
— Deedy (@deedydas) October 29, 2025
About The Companies
2010 — E-commerce company Snapdeal, founded by Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal, last valued at $1 billion. Bahl went on to study at Penn, while Bansal graduated from IIT Delhi.
2012 — Makeup company Sugar Cosmetics, founded by Vineeta Singh, last valued between $250-500 million. Singh graduated from IIT Madras.
2016 — Electronics maker boAt, founded by Aman Gupta, last valued at over $1 billion. Gupta graduated from Delhi University.
2016 — Heart healthcare company Recora, founded by Abhishek Chandra, last valued at over $1 billion. Chandra graduated from Yale.
2017 — Customer management company Affinity, founded by Shubham Goel, last valued between $500 million and $1 billion. Goel graduated from Stanford.
2020 — Venture financing company General Catalyst CVF, founded by Karanveer Mohan, last valued at over $1 billion. Mohan also graduated from Stanford.
2021 — AI voice dictation company Wispr Flow, founded by Tanay Kothari, last valued at over $250 million. Kothari is also an alumnus of Stanford.
2023 — AI voice models company Cartesia, founded by Karan Goel, last valued between $500 million to $1 billion. Goel graduated from IIT Delhi.
2024 — Diffusion-based AI models company Inception Lab, founded by Aditya Grover, last valued at over $250 million. Grover is also an alumnus of IIT Delhi.
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