Varun Saini

Product & Engineering Executive | VP Engineering @ Rippling — Data, AI & Insights | Co-founder, Inference.io | Ex-ThoughtSpot, Tableau, Microsoft | Angel Investor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2025
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Investor, Advisor
Dec 2022
Fennel is a modern feature engineering platform and helps you author, compute, store, serve, monitor & govern both realtime and batch ML features.
Angel Investor
Oct 2022
At Cookr, we believe that everyone deserves to enjoy delicious and healthy food, without compromising on taste or quality. We are an early-stage food tech startup on a mission to revolutionise the food industry in India by building an e-commerce marketplace that offers a wide range of healthy alternatives to restaurant-delivered food. We partner with extremely talented home cooks to bring you delicious homemade meals straight from their homes. Not only does this allow us to offer our customers an unparalleled dining experience, but it also helps to create thousands of micro-entrepreneurs in society and enables them to make a primary livelihood for their families. We understand the importance of food safety and thats why all our partner cooks are FSSAI registered. We also believe that technology plays a critical role in evolving the food sector, thats why we use cutting-edge technology to create a scalable platform that enables seamless collaboration between cooks, customers, and riders. At Cookr, we are dedicated to making it easy for you to access healthy and delicious homemade food, right at your doorstep.
Angel Investor
Oct 2021
We are solving the problem of users lacking agency or power on marketplaces. Current marketplaces help us choose from what exists. Now we want the power to make our own deals. Our marketplace offers "dealmaker AI" for both travelers and travel providers. For travelers, its your personal digital travel agent that creates exclusive and customized travel experiences for you by directly engaging with providers on your behalf. For providers e.g. hotels, the dealmaker AI is your direct channel to engage with customers in a live and efficient manner.
Experience · 8 entries
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2025
Board Member
Mar 2025
Our mission is to inspire diverse young people to participate in team-based STEM programs supported by a knowledgeable volunteer community.
2023
Mentor
Sep 2023
Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)
Angel Investor
Jul 2023
Alliance of Angels is the largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest. Each year, we invest $4M+ into 20+ companies. Since 1997, we have invested $100M+ into 200+ companies and celebrated 40+ exits generating more than a billion dollars of returns. Our network of 150+ active angels invest both individually and through a member driven fund.
2022
Investor, Advisor
Dec 2022
Fennel is a modern feature engineering platform and helps you author, compute, store, serve, monitor & govern both realtime and batch ML features.
Angel Investor
Oct 2022
At Cookr, we believe that everyone deserves to enjoy delicious and healthy food, without compromising on taste or quality. We are an early-stage food tech startup on a mission to revolutionise the food industry in India by building an e-commerce marketplace that offers a wide range of healthy alternatives to restaurant-delivered food. We partner with extremely talented home cooks to bring you delicious homemade meals straight from their homes. Not only does this allow us to offer our customers an unparalleled dining experience, but it also helps to create thousands of micro-entrepreneurs in society and enables them to make a primary livelihood for their families. We understand the importance of food safety and thats why all our partner cooks are FSSAI registered. We also believe that technology plays a critical role in evolving the food sector, thats why we use cutting-edge technology to create a scalable platform that enables seamless collaboration between cooks, customers, and riders. At Cookr, we are dedicated to making it easy for you to access healthy and delicious homemade food, right at your doorstep.
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