Investing Profile

Somesh Dash

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General Partner at IVP
ivp.com/team/somesh-dash/Menlo Park, California
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IVP General Partner
$10.0M - $100.0M
$25.0M
113
$1.50B
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Cape
Series CMar 2026$100M
$140M
Co-investors: Katherine Boyle (Andreessen Horowitz), Will Herman
Solace
Series CFeb 2026$130M
$210M
Co-investors: Wayne Hu (SignalFire), JP (Jean-Paul) Sanday (Menlo Ventures), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Hesham Zreik (FasterCapital), Katie Reiner (Torch Capital), Penny Pritzker (Inspired Capital), Ryan Merket (Jude AI), Anne Wojcicki (23andMe)
Baseten
Series EJan 2026$300M
Series DSep 2025$150M
Series CFeb 2025$75M
Series BMar 2024$40M
$590M
Co-investors: Cack Wilhelm (IVP), William Reed (Spark Capital), Cristina Cordova (First Round Capital), Lachy Groom (Stripe), DJ Patil (‎GreatPoint Ventures), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), Jean-Denis Greze (Plaid), Jay Simons (Bond), Adam Bain (01 Advisors), Dick Costolo (01 Advisors), Scott Belsky (A24), Ron Pragides, Dylan Field, Greg Brockman, Charles Zedlewski
Harness
Secondary MarketDec 2025$40M
Series DApr 2022$180M
Series BJan 2020$30M
$560M
Co-investors: Neeraj Agrawal (Battery Ventures), Thomas Loverro (IVP), Steve Harrick (IVP), Matt Murphy (Menlo Ventures), Steve Kuo (Hercules Capital), Umesh Padval (Thomvest Ventures), Scott Beechuk (Norwest Venture Partners), Matt Carbonara (Citi Ventures), Rama Sekhar (Norwest Venture Partners), Adam Ghobarah (Kinetix), Matt Carbonara
Kalshi
Series ENov 2025$1B
$1.6B
Co-investors: Alex Immerman (Andreessen Horowitz), Matt Huang (Sequoia Capital), Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Donald Stalter (Sunshine Lake), Ali Partovi (Minttown), Vic Koch (Gokin Solar), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Soheil Mirpour, Justin Mateen
Perplexity
Series UnknownJul 2025$100M
Series DDec 2024$500M
Series CApr 2024$63M
Series BJan 2024$74M
$1.3B
Co-investors: Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Pieter Abbeel (AIX Ventures), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners), Auren Hoffman (Datavant), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Mattia Astori, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Sonsini, Guillermo Rauch, Jeff Bezos, Balaji Srinivasan, Dylan Field, Yann LeCun, Bob Muglia
Tennr
Series CJun 2025$100M
$160M
Co-investors: Allison Pickens (Bessemer Venture Partners), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Galym Imanbayev (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Zeya Yang (Andreessen Horowitz), Joanne Chen (Foundation Capital), Jennifer Kaehms (Foundation Capital), Alex Kayyal (Salesforce Ventures), Brenton Fargnoli (AlleyCorp)
Glean
Series FJun 2025$150M
Series ESep 2024$260M
Series DFeb 2024$200M
$770M
Co-investors: James Ephrati (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), Matthew Witheiler (Wellington Management), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Thom Ruhe
General Partner IVPPresent
Life Member Council of Foreign RelationsPresent
Analyst, Corporate Finance CSFB Technology GroupPresent
Associate Luxmi CapitalPresent
Analyst, Corporate Development and New Media Sony Entertainment TelevisionPresent
Life Member Top-PatentsPresent
Analyst, Corporate Finance Top-PatentsPresent
Associate Top-PatentsPresent
Life Member NewCoPresent
Analyst, Corporate Finance NewCoPresent
Associate NewCoPresent
Life Member XtreamITPresent
Analyst, Corporate Finance XtreamITPresent
Associate XtreamITPresent
Analyst, Corporate Development and New Media Sony Pictures Networks IndiaPresent
Life Member University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent
Analyst, Corporate Finance University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent
Associate University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent
University of California, Berkeley BS Business Administration
Stanford University Graduate School of Business MBA Business