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Shilpa Yarlagadda

Partner at Stealth

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Shilpa Yarlagadda is the Founder and CEO of Shiffon Co, a Forbes 30 Under 30 Art & Style honoree, with significant experience in entrepreneurship, robotics, and artificial intelligence. She has successfully founded multiple organizations, including Startup Girl Foundation, and has made impactful investments in companies like Eterneva at the pre-seed stage, focusing on sectors such as impact, health, and hospital services in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

  • Founder & CEO

    2017 - Current

    Shiffon Co. is reimagining luxury by using fine jewelry as a way to bring more women together. Each and every purchase from Shiffon is spiraling up a movement for female founders to receive equal access to venture capital funding. So far, Shiffon's Duet Pinky Rings and Duet Hoops helped fund 11 startups that are led by women and support women through a culture of mentorship and mutual support.

  • Founder

    2017

    www.startupgirlfoundation.org

  • Partner

    2016

  • Microsoft Research (MSR) Intern

    2015 - 2015

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

  • Founder

    2012 - 2015

    ​- ed-tech nonprofit that makes video-tutorials from the student perspective to help students learn in a more fun and relatable way. ​- Recorded video-tutorials on Chemistry & SAT vocabulary. - Speaker at the following Education-Technology conferences: Keynote speaker at Building Learning Communities (BLC14), speaker at MERIT, FETC13, ISTE14 Startup Panel Judge, CUE12, and TEDx

  • Programming Director

    2010 - 2014

    www.spacecookies.org

  • Robotics Academy Intern

    2012 - 2012

    Cadet at NASA's Robotics Academy. Helped program the earth-side control software and command and data handling system for the Lunar Micro-Rover(LMR).

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