Sanjita Pamidimukkala

We back the best university and recent alumni founders — like Cursor, Dandy, RapidSOS, and Shield AI — with a network of investors, mentors, and their first check.

Soma Capital is a fund built by founders for founders, focused on software. Weve invested seed in +20 unicorns worth ~$100b combined often 1st check including Deel, Rippling, Ramp, Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Lambda School among others. Soma Cap partners and advisors have built billion dollar software cos, for example Vivek Ranadive is the founder of multi billion dollar enterprise software company Tibco ($4.3 billion exit to Vista Equity Partners). Tibco services include big data, analytics, event processing, among others, generating over $1bn in yearly revenue and powers 80% of Fortune 500 companies. This gives Soma CEO-level relationships with many of the biggest brands in the world. Vivek has also been involved early investing and mentoring all time great tech companies including google, yahoo, salesforce, ebay and apple. Soma Cap partners also own the Sacramento Kings NBA team and are developing over 200 acres of land in downtown Sacramento including hotels, condos, restaurants, malls and more.

The world is becoming more technology-driven by the second. Whether it be for everyday tasks like setting alarms, or for more important ones like managing finances, it is hard to deny that the abundance of tech is on an upward trend. Many gen-z children are given access to technology at training centers and schools to aid with learning, but the same is not true for others. With technologys effectiveness comes its price, something that not all families can bear. connect&compute stands by the belief that a childs family background should not control their quality of education. our mission is to promote equal, fair, and effective education by providing schools in low-income areas with technology to enhance and stimulate their students​ learning experience. We have raised over $1000 to purchase technology and have received corporate support from companies like VSCO. We are working closely with schools in the Bay Area to pilot our program.