Core91 VC

Grew up in NY, Shalin brings the accent with him. He barely survived Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon where he was in the founding team of a medical device startup, measuring intracranial pressure non-invasively. While working at hedge funds and in private equity at DCM Partners, Indus Growth Partners and Piramal Group he found more excitement in helping founders both in the US and India. Initially he only could offer time, until he built some savings to invest in their startups. His first angel investment became a $100B IPO, but he missed a dozen "right in front of my nose" unicorns.

When we first met Keshav we discovered an excel guru out of place amongst the army of real estate investors. He worked in high street fashion and banking but knew everything that VCcircle had to write on startups. Soon after he founded a profitable molecular diagnostics startup, NeoDx, we roped him in to help us at Core91. We made the mistake of offering him instant coffee and he decided he'd bring his coffee-religion to us.

We first met Aman while he was building 2-wheeler servicing startup, Drivojoy from the ground up, raising capital from top investors including Kunal Shah. We believed he was a strong founder and helped him with his model and a few investor introductions. The startup didn't scale so he went on to work in senior roles at Halodoc as a PM and Growth at Swiggy before we pulled him into Core91 to explore edtech. We then committed the first check in his latest startup, Kluster. Aman graduated from IIT-Bombay.

Xooglers that worked in Mountain View have a special sauce that must come directly from their Michelin star cafeterias, so when we were introduced to Manjot, we were happy to help her find her calling while she helped us understand internet infrastructure. She started as an engineer in the Google Photos team and left as a PM in their Kubernetes team before exploring starting up herself. She then led Stripe in India before joining a superstar fund, Lightspeed.