Summary
Samvit Ramadurgam is a seasoned software entrepreneur and investor, currently building Union, a stealth AI company set to reveal in 2025, focused on applying AI and collective intelligence to address large-scale human challenges. He has founded and led multiple ventures that achieved notable exits and public listings, including Forge Global (founder/CEO/CTO; private securities marketplace) which went public on the NYSE in 2022, and Destiny (founder/co-chairman) that expanded access to private tech markets. A YC alum who started his entrepreneurial journey at 19 with Streem, which later became Box Drive after acquisition, he has a track record of scaling platforms and navigating rapid growth. As an angel investor, he has backed over 300 startups at seed, including unicorns like Retool, Notion, Rippling, and Filecoin, signaling strong pattern recognition and a commitment to technical founders. His background spans distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, AI/ML, and frontier tech, with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and early research in superconductivity and neuroscience. Based in the United States, he continues to blend hands-on engineering with strategic leadership across multiple ventures.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, B.S., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship at Y Combinator
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Torrey Pines High School
English, Kannada, Spanish, Sanskrit