Ipshita Agarwal

GTM

2025

The best web search for AI - https://platform.parallel.ai/home

Investor

2024 - 2025

Investments: Grove Trials, Watney Robotics, Mecka Robotics, Vigil, Wabi (Eugenia Kuyda's NewCo)

Investor

2023 - 2024

Sourced: Mercor (series A), Decagon (series A), Exa (seed), Fal (series A), Mandolin (seed), Haize Labs (seed), Tennr (series B), Pika (series A, B), Vizcom (series A), Anon (seed), Latent Health (series A)

Co-founder, Stanford Blockchain Accelerator (SBA)

2021 - 2023

Co-founded and ran the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, which is now the leading crypto accelerator at Stanford. Incubated and backed 50+ companies, follow-on capital raised $150M+, partnered with VCs including A16Z, Dragonfly, GC, CRV, Lightspeed, Coinbase, Pantera, and others.

Growth & BizOps

2020 - 2021

I led partnerships, growth marketing, SEO/ content, reporting, and data analytics. Left to go to business school. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, First Round, YC.

Co-Founder

2020 - 2020

Tried to solve the information search and discovery problem for consumers... built an engineering & design team, but couldn't find PMF.

Investment Associate

2018 - 2020

First ever Associate hire. Early-stage investing in education, employability, fintech + policy work with the government. My portfolio: - Eduvanz: Education financing platform, now backed by Sequoia - King's Learning (Enguru): India's leading spoken English mobile app, acquired by OpenEnglish - Avanti Fellows: India's first ed-tech solution for the secondary public education system - Foundation for Excellence: Scholarships and employability support to engineering students Led quarterly portfolio analysis.

Investment Analyst (TPG Rise's co-investing partner in India)

2017 - 2018

Elevar is TPG Rise's co-investing partner in India. Early-stage investing across edtech, fintech, healthcare, and agri-tech sectors. Investments: - Lead School: Full-stack SaaS solution for schools, now backed by GSV & Westbridge - Glocal: Telemedicine and hospital chain for rural India, also backed by Sequoia - Varthana: India’s leading school-financing player, now backed by Chrys Capital - Origa: Fintech leasing solution for enterprises - Madura: Leading micro-finance player

Investment Banking Senior Analyst

2016 - 2017

Youngest recipient of the Deutsche Bank Recognition Award in Australia. Sole analyst on deals of $4BN+, including the largest coal M&A globally since 2013. Early promotion to senior analyst. Spent 2 years learning a lot about coal, gold, copper, bauxite, and iron ore!

Investment Banking Analyst

2015 - 2016