Investing Profile

Somesh Dash

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General Partner at IVP
ivp.com/team/somesh-dash/Menlo Park, California
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NewCo Network
1600 CONNECTIONS
NewCo Network
1600 CONNECTIONS
NewCo Network
1600 CONNECTIONS
Top-Patents Network
1034 CONNECTIONS
Top-Patents Network
1034 CONNECTIONS
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IVP General Partner
$10.0M - $100.0M
$25.0M
114
$1.50B
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
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: Cack Wilhelm (IVP), William Reed (Spark Capital), Shravan Narayen (IVP), Mustafa Suleyman (Greylock), Cristina Cordova (First Round Capital), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), DJ Patil (‎GreatPoint Ventures), Jean-Denis Greze (Plaid), Jay Simons (Bond), Adam Bain (01 Advisors), Dick Costolo (01 Advisors), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Charles Zedlewski, Greg Brockman, Dylan Field, Ron Pragides
Cape
Series CMar 2026$110M
$150M
Co-investors: Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), 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)
Harness
Secondary MarketDec 2025$40M
Series DApr 2022$180M
Series BJan 2020$30M
$560M
Co-investors: Steve Harrick (IVP), Thomas Loverro (IVP), Neeraj Agrawal (Battery Ventures), Matt Murphy (Menlo Ventures), Rama Sekhar (Norwest Venture Partners), Adam Ghobarah (Kinetix), Scott Beechuk (Norwest Venture Partners), Steve Kuo (Hercules Capital), Umesh Padval (Thomvest Ventures), Matt Carbonara (Citi Ventures), Matt Carbonara
Kalshi
Series ENov 2025$1B
$1.6B
Co-investors: Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Matt Huang (Sequoia Capital), Alex Immerman (Andreessen Horowitz), Ali Partovi (Airbnb, Convoy, Facebook, Uber, Zappos, etc), Charles Seely (Stealth), Vic Koch (Gokin Solar), Donald Stalter (Sunshine Lake), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Henry Kravis, Justin Mateen, Soheil Mirpour
Perplexity
Series UnknownJul 2025$100M
Series DDec 2024$500M
Series CApr 2024$63M
Series BJan 2024$74M
$1.3B
Co-investors: Shravan Narayen (IVP), Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Talia Goldberg (Bessemer Venture Partners), Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners), Auren Hoffman (SafeGraph), Joshua Müller (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Stanley Druckenmiller (Quantum Wave Fund), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Yann LeCun (AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence), Pieter Abbeel (AIX Ventures), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Mattia Astori, Amjad Masad, Bob Muglia, Peter Sonsini, Tobias Lutke, Guillermo Rauch, Jeff Bezos, Balaji Srinivasan, Shane Neman, Dylan Field
Tennr
Series CJun 2025$100M
$160M
Co-investors: Zeya Yang (Andreessen Horowitz), Jay Rughani (Andreessen Horowitz), Kristina Shen (Andreessen Horowitz), Galym Imanbayev (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Joanne Chen (Foundation Capital), Jennifer Kaehms (Foundation Capital), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, LP), Warrick Shanly (Soma Capital), Alex Kayyal (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Brenton Fargnoli (AlleyCorp)
Glean
Series FJun 2025$150M
Series ESep 2024$260M
Series DFeb 2024$200M
$770M
Co-investors: Ajay Vashee (IVP), James Ephrati (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Shravan Narayen (IVP), Tamar Yehoshua (IVP), Thom Ruhe (NC IDEA), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Ravi Mhatre (Anthropic), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), Matthew Witheiler (Wellington Management), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor)
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
University of California, Berkeley BS Business Administration
Stanford University Graduate School of Business MBA Business