Sundeep Ahuja

Founder & GP

2018 - Current

Backing emissions reduction & adaptation since 2015. 200+ incl Remora, Span, Mosaic, Arcadia, KoBold, & Weavegrid. Invest in the fund @ angel.co/v/l/PN41p Back the syndicate @ angel.co/s/climate/IuDT2 More @ climatecapital.co

Founder & GP (Fund) & Syndicate Lead (AngelList)

2018 - 2022

Backing mission-driven founders since 2013. 100+ incl Turing, Substack, Sandbox VR, & Braintrust. Invest in the fund @ angel.co/v/l/aYRBX Back the syndicate @ angel.co/s/sundeep/576eH More @ duro.vc & joindvc.com (sister firm)

Venture Partner | Republic Capital

2020 - 2022

More @ republiccapital.co

Partner | Republic Capital

2019 - 2020

Republic's mission is to democratize access to the venture capital asset class.

Partner

2019 - 2019

Principal Business Development Manager - Startups & AI/ML

2015 - 2018

I spent 3 years @ AWS, first supporting Startups and then focused on AI/ML. Sep '17 - Mar '18 (Sydney): - Led AI/ML for AWS's ANZ region (there bc my wife had a 6 month fellowship in Sydney) Jan '17 - Aug '17 (San Francisco): - launched AWS's Angel/Seed practice - led AI/ML efforts on the Startup team Feb '15 - Dec '16 (San Francisco): - worked with top Accelerators & Incubators (eg YC) and their companies - forged and led AWS's relationship with OpenAI - led several other high profile (incl CEO visibility), confidential efforts

Investor / Advisor / Consultant

2007 - 2018

Angel Investor (more @ https://angel.co/sundeep): - Goodreads (acq by AMZN) - Counsyl (acq by Myriad Genetics) - ...and a bunch of teeny tiny investments, most into Syndicates on AngelList. Advisor: - Edvo (entry level talent matching platform) - Hooked (fiction for the SnapChat generation) - AngelList (equity crowdfunding platform) - Change.org (social action platform) - IndieGoGo (crowdfunding platform) - Kiva.org (platform for p2p microfinance) - Maxwell Health (health insurance 2.0) [acquired] - Mosaic (financing the solar movement) - UrbanTag (discover your city) [acquired] - I-MAK (increasing access to affordable medicines) - Involver (brand marketing for social networks) [acquired] - Playnomics (gaming analytics) [acquired] - Gunbygun.org (crowdfunding community driven gun buy back programs) - ...and helped run the helpvinay.org and helpsameer.org campaigns Consultant: - Republic - Raleigh & Drake - Oh My Green - Thrive Natural Care - Kiva.org - Counsyl - eBay, Inc. - World of Good, Inc. (marketplace for "good" goods) - richrelevance ...and 3 confidential others

Co-Founder & Board Member

2014 - 2017

A non-profit accelerating Silicon Valley innovation in the fight against climate change. As covered in Forbes: https://bit.ly/2HAepSv

Founder & CEO

2010 - 2017

Acquired by Garten, blissmo was a pioneer in helping shoppers discover exceptional organic, non-toxic & sustainable products via flash sales & discovery boxes. The company helped several hundred thousand customers across the country "discover what's better" by working with hundreds of premium brands and partnering with dozens of mission-minded organizations including Care2, Fair Trade USA & The Nature Conservancy. Blissmo and BREAKbox were featured on TV, in print and across the web including on Fox News and in Forbes, Wired, TechCrunch & The Atlantic. Full-time June 2010-June 2013; Part-time July 2013-June 2017.

Executive Producer

2014 - 2015

Executive Producer of a pilot for a travel show to raise awareness around the impact of climate change. View our pilot where we visited the Maldives, modern-day Atlantis: https://vimeo.com/127680602

Author

2013 - 2014

HALINE is 4.6 star, "Hunger Games meets Climate Change" novel. Download it on Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Haline-Sundeep-Ahuja-ebook/dp/B00HK3KNK2 ABOUT: Natasha Biron knows this is her last chance. Losing this Election means losing the war – and her life. Officer Aaren Jemmer diligently works to lockdown Haline and ensure Natasha's failure, another special assignment he'll use to keep his secret safe. Archives employee Joaquin Deva is wrapping-up at the office before a holiday with his girlfriend – until an unexpected discovery drives him to abandon everything in his near-perfect life to find the one person who can help him: Natasha Biron. Over the next four days their paths collide, shattering their realities as they each discover the lies they’ve been living and the unthinkable truth they share. PRAISE: “HALINE is a mesmerizing story of a fallen world in which the characters struggle to cope with life after an environmental cataclysm." — Kabir Sehgal, New York Times best-selling author "Incredibly engaging and a total page turner. I haven't been that engaged by a book since Harry Potter or Twilight!" — Lauren Weinstein "I finished HALINE in less than 24 hours - it was one of the most original and enjoyable books I've read." — Tyler Willis, Entrepreneur "For fans of The Wind-Up Girl and The Handmaid's Tale, HALINE is a cautionary story of a not too distant dystopian future that serves as a hard slap across the face to wake from our collective apathy." – @thesubjective

Co-Founder

2009 - 2010

Acquired by Directly.com in early 2018, Sparked uses machine learning to help companies like Google, Microsoft, Barclays, LinkedIn, Kraft Foods, Koodo Mobile, UnitedHealth Group, and SAP better understand their customers, increase ROAS, and boost revenue. Before pivoting, the company was founded as a pioneering micro-volunteering / micro-task platform allowing organizations to tap the passion & spare cycles of their supporters (think Mechanical Turk meets Twitter). Responsibilities spanned fundraising, product, analytics, operations, hiring, strategy and business development. Investors included True Ventures, Kapor Capital, Ariel Poler, James Currier, Stan Chudnovsky, Esther Dyson, and Mark Goines.