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
114
Current Fund Size
$1.50B

Somesh Dash is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Somesh Dash's Investments On Record (57)

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), Scott Belsky (A24), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Greg Brockman (OpenAI), DJ Patil (‎GreatPoint Ventures), Jean-Denis Greze (Plaid), Jay Simons (Bond), Adam Bain (01 Advisors), Dick Costolo (01 Advisors), Ron Pragides, Dylan Field, Charles Zedlewski
Cape
Series CMar 2026$110M
$150M
Co-investors: Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Katherine Boyle (Andreessen Horowitz), 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: Matt Huang (Sequoia Capital), Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Alex Immerman (Andreessen Horowitz), Soheil Mirpour (Global Founders Capital), Ali Partovi (Xtripe Angels), Charles Seely (Stealth), Vic Koch (Gokin Solar), Donald Stalter (Sunshine Lake), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Justin Mateen, Henry Kravis
Perplexity
Series UnknownJul 2025$100M
Series DDec 2024$500M
Series CApr 2024$63M
Series BJan 2024$74M
$1.3B
Co-investors: Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Shravan Narayen (IVP), Talia Goldberg (Bessemer Venture Partners), Peter Sonsini (The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. New Incubation Ventures), Yann LeCun (AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence), Pieter Abbeel (AIX Ventures), Nat Friedman (Self-employed), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), 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), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Jeff Bezos, Shane Neman, Dylan Field, Mattia Astori, Bob Muglia, Amjad Masad, Tobias Lutke, Guillermo Rauch, Balaji Srinivasan
Tennr
Series CJun 2025$100M
$160M
Co-investors: Zeya Yang (IVP), Jay Rughani (Andreessen Horowitz), Kristina Shen (Andreessen Horowitz), Galym Imanbayev (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Jennifer Kaehms (Foundation Capital), Joanne Chen (Foundation Capital), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, LP), Warrick Shanly (Rockpool Investments), 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: Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Shravan Narayen (IVP), Tamar Yehoshua (IVP), Ajay Vashee (IVP), James Ephrati (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Thom Ruhe (NC IDEA), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Ravi Mhatre (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), Matthew Witheiler (Flybridge Capital Partners), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor)

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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