David Kumaran

Entrepreneur | Investor | Advisor

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
16
Total investments
5
Early stage
4
Mid stage
2
Late stage
7y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor
Nov 2024
Khalo is pioneering the integration of ancient Ayurvedic wisdom into modern kitchens. Founded by Ankita, who discovered the profound connection between food and wellness through her own health journey, Khalo was born out of a desire to make holistic living accessible to everyone. While working in the beauty industry, Ankita realized that true wellness goes beyond skin-deep—it begins with what we put into our bodies. This insight led her to delve into Ayurveda, one of the oldest healing systems in the world, which emphasizes the importance of balancing the mind, body, and spirit through food. At Khalo, we craft Ayurvedic cooking pastes designed to support gut health and enhance overall well-being. Our products make it easy to incorporate a diverse array of herbs and spices into your daily meals, turning everyday cooking into a nourishing and transformative ritual. We believe in the power of food to heal and transform lives. Our mission is to foster a holistic approach to wellness that is not only accessible but also enjoyable and deeply nourishing. Because at Khalo, we know that how we eat is how we live.
Investor
Jun 2024
Velvet is a closed capital network and AI lab investing at the frontier of the private market, with a shared mission to create efficient, intelligent, and connected private capital. Built for and by leading institutional allocators, family offices, and venture capitalists. The most influential people still make decisions in the dark. Our mission is to build technology that accelerates conviction and connectivity. We believe in the super intelligent investor. Velvet was built by and for the investing ecosystem to bring cutting-edge AI directly into the hands of those allocating capital. We believe access to purpose-built AI accelerates conviction, shortens cycle time, and increases liquidity across markets; to the benefit of investors, LPs, and founders alike.
Investor & Advisor
Apr 2024
Wisys breakthrough computer vision technology enables consumer product companies to increase sales by optimizing product assortment on shelves, showrooms and warehouses with higher personnel efficiency and accurate actionable data.
Investor
Oct 2023
Ecotone Renewables is building a world without waste by deploying the industrys most reliable food waste diversion systems. We are the leading provider of automated food waste management and waste data analytics systems in the US with international expansion already started. Ecotone Renewables is a public benefit corporation focused on up-cycling food waste into Soil Sauce organic liquid fertilizer. This provides growers a 4:1 ROI on inputs and helps turn waste into nutrients to feed our communities. Founded in Pittsburgh, PA, Ecotone Renewables is scaling automated anaerobic digestion technology as a turn-key solution to food waste for buildings and commercial kitchens.
Investor
Oct 2023
IDX works like current exchanges worldwide but lets fans and investors easily buy, sell, and trade shares in stocks of creative projects, media rights, and intellectual properties of unknown, up-and-coming, and well-known talent. Everyone from fashion designers, athletes, and content creators; to artists, and developers can effortlessly sell portions of their rights as they see fit while being protected, and buyers can get in on the ground floor of seeing these ideas grow, and seeing the value of their shares rise.
Investor
Sep 2023
By removing childcare as an obstacle, Mirza helps employees choose family and career. Mirza provides an end-to-end childcare solution that supports parents to return to work and succeed. Our technology flags eligibility for government childcare programs, guides employees through the process, and helps them connect to caregivers. Our comprehensive platform also allows employers to deliver tax-efficient stipend programs, so companies can support their entire workforce.
Investor
Apr 2023
The Well is an asset manager that creates advanced quantitative trading strategies to generate alpha.
Investor
Nov 2022
Myles Comfort Foods is a clean, premium comfort food brand elevating the landscape of frozen foods through the marriage of quality and clean convenience that the modern day consumer is seeking in grocery.
Investor & Advisor
Feb 2022
A collection of natural elements to create intentional spaces that focus on self-care rituals. Inspired by a family of entrepreneurs, Alkeme is the intersection of timeless Eastern wisdom and the modern human aesthetic. We are a family of hatha yogis with ancestral roots in Ayurveda and Vastu. We created Alkeme with the intention of elevating our physical spaces and dialing in our focus on the ritual of self-care. Through the wisdom of ancient practices, we are forging a path to modern human wellness and transformation. Come design your intentional space!
Investor
Aug 2021
Pamper Nail Gallery is the worlds first and largest Internet nail salon. We ship handcrafted, reusable nails worldwide! We are comprised of the largest network of Instagram famous nail artists and mixed media artists. We produce the most viral and extraordinary content for nail art and nail technology!
Investor
Jun 2021
Surge is a real-time social listening tool that works for the entire internet. Surge gives brands the ability to go to market 10x faster using a world-class A.I. that is currently tracking 600 billion signals per day across 10,000 sources.
Investor
Oct 2020
Breakr stands at the cutting edge of influencer collaboration, offering a transformative SaaS platform designed explicitly for record labels, artists, and brands. In an era where transparency, communication, and efficiency are paramount, Breakr addresses the unique challenges of influencer campaigns. Our integrated approach combines a vast creator marketplace with a patented digital wallet system, ensuring seamless interactions and transactions. By leveraging advanced technology—including enterprise analytics and robust CRM systems—Breakr is reshaping how labels and brands collaborate with influencers, ensuring high-impact campaigns and quantifiable ROI in an ever-evolving digital landscape.
Investor
Feb 2019
We provide access to the most advanced Vision AI Standard for protecting people and products in the digital world.
Experience · 31 entries
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2024
Investor
Nov 2024
Khalo is pioneering the integration of ancient Ayurvedic wisdom into modern kitchens. Founded by Ankita, who discovered the profound connection between food and wellness through her own health journey, Khalo was born out of a desire to make holistic living accessible to everyone. While working in the beauty industry, Ankita realized that true wellness goes beyond skin-deep—it begins with what we put into our bodies. This insight led her to delve into Ayurveda, one of the oldest healing systems in the world, which emphasizes the importance of balancing the mind, body, and spirit through food. At Khalo, we craft Ayurvedic cooking pastes designed to support gut health and enhance overall well-being. Our products make it easy to incorporate a diverse array of herbs and spices into your daily meals, turning everyday cooking into a nourishing and transformative ritual. We believe in the power of food to heal and transform lives. Our mission is to foster a holistic approach to wellness that is not only accessible but also enjoyable and deeply nourishing. Because at Khalo, we know that how we eat is how we live.
Investor
Nov 2024
Pendulum is committed to developing novel interventions that target the human microbiome to improve the lives of patients suffering from a variety of diseases. Our targeted formulations of natural bacterial strains help to rebalance the microbiome which restores and improve one’s health.
Founding Partner
Sep 2024
Future Stack is the next evolution in company building, designed for entrepreneurs, devoted to enhancing the wellbeing for humans and the planet.
Investor
Jun 2024
Velvet is a closed capital network and AI lab investing at the frontier of the private market, with a shared mission to create efficient, intelligent, and connected private capital. Built for and by leading institutional allocators, family offices, and venture capitalists. The most influential people still make decisions in the dark. Our mission is to build technology that accelerates conviction and connectivity. We believe in the super intelligent investor. Velvet was built by and for the investing ecosystem to bring cutting-edge AI directly into the hands of those allocating capital. We believe access to purpose-built AI accelerates conviction, shortens cycle time, and increases liquidity across markets; to the benefit of investors, LPs, and founders alike.
Investor & Advisor
Apr 2024
Wisys breakthrough computer vision technology enables consumer product companies to increase sales by optimizing product assortment on shelves, showrooms and warehouses with higher personnel efficiency and accurate actionable data.
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