Naman Shah

Thistle makes it easy to get and stay healthy while improving the sustainability of the food system. We deliver deliciously nutritious, ready-to-eat plant-forward meals, snacks, and juices straight to your door. Designed by nutritionists and crafted by chefs, our meal design reflects scientific, evidence-based principles of diet that optimize health and longevity, while maximizing planetary health, featuring real, whole, plant-rich foods like fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, and whole grains. Above all, Thistle makes eating a plant-forward, planet-friendly diet the most irresistible option on the table. We’ve delivered over 20 million meals since our founding in 2013 by Ashwin Cheriyan and Shiri Avnery, PhD, and maintain ongoing partnerships with local food rescue nonprofit organizations to alleviate hunger and fight food waste. We currently deliver throughout the greater West Coast and East Coast, and are continuing to rapidly expand. We’re proud to be recognized for our growth and impact. Newsweek ranked us in their 2025 Excellence Index 1000, while the San Francisco Business Times included us in the 2023 Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area. In 2022, Inc. honored us with their Best in Business award for excelling in food and sustainability, and in 2024, we were featured in the Inc. Regionals list of the fastest-growing companies in America by region. To learn more about our mission, visit www.thistle.co.

Thistle makes it easy to get and stay healthy while improving the sustainability of the food system. We deliver deliciously nutritious, ready-to-eat plant-forward meals, snacks, and juices straight to your door. Designed by nutritionists and crafted by chefs, our meal design reflects scientific, evidence-based principles of diet that optimize health and longevity, while maximizing planetary health, featuring real, whole, plant-rich foods like fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, and whole grains. Above all, Thistle makes eating a plant-forward, planet-friendly diet the most irresistible option on the table. We’ve delivered over 20 million meals since our founding in 2013 by Ashwin Cheriyan and Shiri Avnery, PhD, and maintain ongoing partnerships with local food rescue nonprofit organizations to alleviate hunger and fight food waste. We currently deliver throughout the greater West Coast and East Coast, and are continuing to rapidly expand. We’re proud to be recognized for our growth and impact. Newsweek ranked us in their 2025 Excellence Index 1000, while the San Francisco Business Times included us in the 2023 Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area. In 2022, Inc. honored us with their Best in Business award for excelling in food and sustainability, and in 2024, we were featured in the Inc. Regionals list of the fastest-growing companies in America by region. To learn more about our mission, visit www.thistle.co.

We’re a data driven asset manager investing across public equities and venture capital. Our mission is to influence the flow of capital into companies that improve society & push culture forward. 1. As public market investors, we’ve posted top decile returns using our data-driven approach. Prior to Studio we built Sentieo, an AI-driven financial research platform, as a way to gain alpha in our public market investments. Sentieo is now used by some of the world’s top investment funds. 2. As venture investors, we finance and incubate startups across stages and sectors, leveraging our experience as entrepreneurs. Companies we’ve co-founded have collectively raised over $90m in venture capital and have scaled to over 1,000 employees. We marry this experience as entrepreneurs with our data-driven approach as investors to identify and incubate startups advancing societal health, productivity, and well-being.

Sentieo, an AlphaSense company, provides the first financial intelligence platform specifically designed for the research needs of investors. Sentieo’s AI-powered financial search engine aggregates internal and external content into a single shared workspace for a more efficient research process. Over 1,100 global customers use Sentieo to surface, visualize, and share the insights that give them an edge. The content of posts reference an opinion and / or is presented for product demonstration purposes. It is provided for information purposes only. It does not constitute, nor is it intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.

A start-up that is changing the way Indians use the technology at their fingertips. Based in Ahmedabad, India, inCrowd is empowering new consumers in the world’s most exciting market with a whole wave of new things they can do on their mobile phones. Stay tuned for details.