Building Founder–Investor Bridges Through Funding Fridays
At TiE Silicon Valley’s Funding Fridays (October Edition), eight founders participated in exclusive 1:1 meetings with Jyotika Gupta, Co-Founder & Partner, and Raj Shekhar Singh, Founder & General Partner at z21 Ventures—engaging in insightful discussions, refining their fundraising narratives, and exploring new pathways to scale.
This month’s Funding Fridays featured the following startups:
– Aki Kumar, Founder & CEO, Credible AI
– Anurag Kamal, CEO, ElectricFish Energy Inc
– Bharath Kumar, Founder & CEO, Digitalapi.ai
– Dathu Patil, Co-founder & CTO, Verbal
– Piyush Gupta, Founder & CEO, Ambrosia Systems Inc
– Priyanka Ladha, Founder & CEO, Kridha Inc
– Sachin Saswade, Co-founder & CEO, Turiya AI
Seven of the eight startups secured follow-up meetings with the VCs — a testament to the strength of ideas and investor-ready founders emerging from the TiE Silicon Valley community.
Watch the videos of the founder and VC sharing their experience.
Jyotika Gupta, z21 Ventures shares her insights meeting the startups at Funding Fridays: Click here
Dathu Patil, CTO and Co-founder at Verbal, shares his experience at Funding Fridays: Click here
At TiE Silicon Valley, we continue to build bridges between vision and venture — turning conversations into capital and innovation into impact.