Hersh Desai

Always down for a walk - come find me in NYC or Palo Alto.

Currently I work for Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross where I spend my time:

• leading rounds from seed to growth, investing between $1M and $100M at a time
• running AI Grant an accelerator for seed-stage AI companies
• helping manage our supercomputer for AI startups called the Andromeda Cluster

Some of our investments that I worked on and support include:

• Eleven Labs
• Pika
• Magic
• Valuebase
• Perplexity
• Distyl
• Terraform Industries
• Mathpix
• Weights and Biases
• ggml.ai
• Freed AI
• Suno
• EvolutionaryScale
• The Bot Company
• Klarity
• SSI

Other things about me:

• Born in India, raised in Wilmington, NC
• Love warm carbs & cheese and dogs
• I've sampled a large % of global GDP as I wandered through biomedical engineering, non-profits, finance, medicine, consulting, enterprise SW, and autonomous vehicles

You can find me online through my:

• Twitter - Follow me for smart and/or unhinged tweets
• LinkedIn
• Work email: hersh(at)nfdg(dot)com