Investing Profile

Somesh Dash

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General Partner at IVP

ivp.com/team/somesh-dash/Menlo Park, California

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Current Investing Position

IVP General Partner

Investment Range

$10.0M - $100.0M

Sweet Spot

$25.0M

Investments On Record

115

Current Fund Size

$1.50B

Somesh Dash's Investments On Record (57)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Obsidian Security	Series DAug 2026$85M Series CApr 2022$90M	$210M
Co-investors: Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Venky Ganesan (Menlo Ventures), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), Asheem Chandna (Greylock Partners), Promod Haque (Norwest Venture Partners)
Baseten	Series FJun 2026$1.5B Series EJan 2026$300M Series DSep 2025$150M Series CFeb 2025$75M Series BMar 2024$40M	$2.1B
Co-investors: Shravan Narayen (IVP), Cack Wilhelm (IVP), William Reed (Spark Capital), Mustafa Suleyman (Greylock), Cristina Cordova (First Round Capital), Scott Belsky (A24), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Greg Brockman (OpenAI), Dylan Field (Figma, Inc.), DJ Patil (‎GreatPoint Ventures), Jean-Denis Greze (ASDF Ventures), Jay Simons (Bond), Adam Bain (01 Advisors), Dick Costolo (01 Advisors), Ron Pragides (GTMFund), Charles Zedlewski
Cape	Series CMar 2026$110M	$150M
Co-investors: Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Katherine Boyle (Andreessen Horowitz), Avidan Ross (Root Ventures), Semil Shah (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Will Herman (Bolt)
Solace	Series CFeb 2026$130M	$210M
Co-investors: Wayne Hu (SignalFire), JP (Jean-Paul) Sanday (Menlo Ventures), Katie Reiner (Torch Capital), Anne Wojcicki (23andMe), Penny Pritzker (Inspired Capital), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Hesham Zreik (FasterCapital), Ryan Merket (Jude AI)
Harness	Secondary MarketDec 2025$40M Series DApr 2022$180M Series BJan 2020$30M	$560M
Co-investors: Thomas Loverro (IVP), Steve Harrick (IVP), Neeraj Agrawal (Battery Ventures), Umesh Padval (Thomvest Ventures), Scott Beechuk (Norwest Venture Partners), Matt Carbonara (Reservoir Venture Partners), Rama Sekhar (Norwest Venture Partners), Matt Murphy (Kleiner Perkins), Steve Kuo (Hercules Capital), Adam Ghobarah (Kinetix), Matt Carbonara
Kalshi	Series ENov 2025$1B	$1.6B
Co-investors: Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Matt Huang (Sequoia Capital), Alex Immerman (Andreessen Horowitz), Soheil Mirpour (Global Founders Capital), Ali Partovi (Xtripe Angels), Charles Seely (Stealth), Justin Mateen (Unknown Ventures), Vic Koch (Gokin Solar), Donald Stalter (Sunshine Lake), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Henry Kravis
Perplexity	Series UnknownJul 2025$100M Series DDec 2024$500M Series CApr 2024$63M Series BJan 2024$74M	$1.3B
Co-investors: Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Shravan Narayen (IVP), Talia Goldberg (Bessemer Venture Partners), Balaji Srinivasan (Andreessen Horowitz), Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Pieter Abbeel (AIX Ventures), Nat Friedman (Self-employed), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Peter Sonsini (The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. New Incubation Ventures), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Yann LeCun (AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners), Auren Hoffman (SafeGraph), Joshua Müller (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Stanley Druckenmiller (Quantum Wave Fund), Daniel Gross (Various), Dylan Field (Figma, Inc.), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Jeff Bezos, Tobias Lutke, Bob Muglia, Mattia Astori, Amjad Masad, Shane Neman
Tennr	Series CJun 2025$100M	$160M
Co-investors: Zeya Yang (IVP), Jay Rughani (Andreessen Horowitz), Kristina Shen (Bessemer Venture Partners), Jennifer Kaehms (Foundation Capital), Joanne Chen (Foundation Capital), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, LP), Warrick Shanly (Rockpool Investments), Galym Imanbayev (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Guru Chahal (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Alex Kayyal (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Brenton Fargnoli (AlleyCorp)

Somesh Dash's Experience

Associate BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

Associate Calling BrandsPresent

Analyst, Corporate Finance BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

Analyst, Corporate Finance Calling BrandsPresent

Life Member BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

Life Member Calling BrandsPresent

Associate Xtripe AngelsPresent

Analyst, Corporate Finance Luxmi CapitalPresent

Analyst, Corporate Finance Xtripe AngelsPresent

Life Member Luxmi CapitalPresent

Life Member Xtripe AngelsPresent

Associate University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Analyst, Corporate Finance University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Life Member University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Analyst, Corporate Development and New Media Sony Pictures Networks IndiaPresent

Associate XtreamITPresent

Analyst, Corporate Finance XtreamITPresent

Life Member XtreamITPresent

Associate NewCoPresent

Analyst, Corporate Finance NewCoPresent

Life Member NewCoPresent

Associate Top-PatentsPresent

Analyst, Corporate Finance Top-PatentsPresent

Life Member Top-PatentsPresent

Analyst, Corporate Development and New Media Sony Entertainment TelevisionPresent

Associate Luxmi CapitalPresent

Analyst, Corporate Finance CSFB Technology GroupPresent

Life Member Council of Foreign RelationsPresent

General Partner IVPPresent

Somesh Dash's Education

University of California, Berkeley BS Business Administration

Stanford University Graduate School of Business MBA Business

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