Sanjay Varun Gupta

Principal, Silverline Growth - venture capital · marketplaces · brands

Silverline Growth

San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)

7+ years experience

Carnegie Mellon University

English

Investing

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Overview

7 years around startups; now investing in consumer. Previously an operator for 12 years before investing. Backed 30 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: Robinhood and Salesforce.

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venture capitalmarketplacesbrands

InvestingLooking to invest

closes in 3 months

Writing $1M cheques into Series A consumer in the US

Cheque size: $1M
Stages: Seed, Series A
Sectors: Consumer
Geographies: India and Southeast Asia
Lead or follow: Any
Decision time: One meeting and a partner call
How I help: Hiring the first ten people

Typically lead or co-lead. Decisions within 2 weeks.

San Francisco, CAventure capitalmarketplacesbrands

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Experience

Principal
Aug 2023 - Present
Silverline Growth · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
- Backed 39 founders at pre-seed and seed.
- Led or co-led 25 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
- Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
Staff Software Engineer
Jul 2020 - Aug 2023
Robinhood · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
- Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 25 minutes to under 5.
Principal Engineer
Oct 2019 - Jul 2020
Salesforce · 9 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
- Sit on 4 boards.
- Led or co-led 11 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later.

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Education

Carnegie Mellon University
BS, Economics
2015 - 2019

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