Varun Gupta
General Partner at Caffeinated Capital
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2020 - Current
We partner with founders as early as possible and invest throughout the life of the company. We have invested in fintech (Affirm, Aven, Brex), proptech (Opendoor, Divvy Homes, Loft), enterprise (Airtable, Deel, Docker, Notion, Playground AI), insurtech (AgentSync, Federato, Pathpoint), life sciences (BioAge, Ganymede, Spring Discovery), healthcare (Clipboard Health, Color, Virta Health), climate (Gravity, Impulse, Regent), and defense (Onebrief, Hadrian, Saronic, Varda). We're aggressively openminded and strive to be your most impactful investor.
Caffeinated Capital is a technology venture capital firm that partners with founders at the inception stage.
Data Science / Machine Learning
2017 - 2019
Tech lead and ML engineer for new production underwriting systems, generally learned how to be a productive person, and met some great colleagues
Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
Raised $2,020,000,000.00 from PGIM Fixed Income.
Software
2013 - 2016
Expanse (eventually acquired by $PANW, which I had nothing to do with), Wealthfront, Elementum (supply chain software), Stanford spatial history