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), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Will Herman
Solace
Series CFeb 2026$130M
$210M
Co-investors: Wayne Hu (SignalFire), JP (Jean-Paul) Sanday (Menlo Ventures), Penny Pritzker (Inspired Capital), Katie Reiner (Torch Capital), Anne Wojcicki (23andMe), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Hesham Zreik (FasterCapital), Ryan Merket (Jude AI)
Baseten
Series EJan 2026$300M
Series DSep 2025$150M
Series CFeb 2025$75M
Series BMar 2024$40M
$590M
Co-investors: Shravan Narayen (IVP), Cack Wilhelm (IVP), William Reed (Spark Capital), Mustafa Suleyman (Greylock), Cristina Cordova (First Round Capital), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), 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: Thomas Loverro (IVP), Steve Harrick (IVP), Neeraj Agrawal (Battery Ventures), 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: Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Matt Huang (Sequoia Capital), Alex Immerman (Andreessen Horowitz), Ali Partovi (Minttown), Vic Koch (Gokin Solar), Donald Stalter (Sunshine Lake), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Henry Kravis, 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), Shravan Narayen (IVP), 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), Joshua Müller (DTCP), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Guillermo Rauch, Jeff Bezos, Balaji Srinivasan, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Sonsini, Amjad Masad, Yann LeCun, Shane Neman, Dylan Field, Bob Muglia, Mattia Astori, Tobias Lutke
Tennr
Series CJun 2025$100M
$160M
Co-investors: Galym Imanbayev (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Zeya Yang (Andreessen Horowitz), Jennifer Kaehms (Foundation Capital), Joanne Chen (Foundation Capital), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, formerly The New Normal Fund), Warrick Shanly (Soma 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), Shravan Narayen (IVP), Tamar Yehoshua (IVP), Ajay Vashee (IVP), 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
Life Member Xtripe AngelsPresent
Life Member Luxmi CapitalPresent
Analyst, Corporate Finance Xtripe AngelsPresent
Analyst, Corporate Finance Luxmi CapitalPresent
Associate Xtripe AngelsPresent
University of California, Berkeley BS Business Administration
Stanford University Graduate School of Business MBA Business