Ipshita Agarwal

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States10 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

Co-founded Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, raising over $150M.
Invested in multiple successful startups across various sectors.
Recognized for excellence in investment banking at Deutsche Bank.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Blockchain expert with strong investment and entrepreneurial skills.

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About

www.ipshitaa.com

Experience

Parallel web systems

Building

Oct 2025 – Present · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Come build the future of the web! hiring across all roles: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/parallel

A*

Investor

Aug 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

Investments: Grove Trials, Watney Robotics, Mecka Robotics, Vigil, Wabi (Eugenia Kuyda's NewCo)

Crv

Investor

Aug 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Sourced: Lighter (seed), Mercor (series A), Decagon (series A), Exa (seed), Fal (series A), Mandolin (seed), Haize Labs (seed), Tennr (series B), Pika (series A, B), Vizcom (series A), Anon (seed), Latent Health (series A)

Stanford blockchain club

Co-founder, Stanford Blockchain Accelerator (SBA)

Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs · Stanford, California, United States

Co-founded and ran the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, which is now the leading crypto accelerator at Stanford. Incubated and backed 50+ companies, follow-on capital raised $150M+, partnered with VCs including A16Z, Dragonfly, GC, CRV, Lightspeed, Coinbase, Pantera, and others.

Nova credit

Growth & BizOps

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

I led partnerships, growth marketing, SEO/ content, reporting, and data analytics. Left to go to business school.
Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, First Round, YC.

Comet

Co-Founder

Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 · 0 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Tried to solve the information search and discovery problem for consumers... built an engineering & design team, but couldn't find PMF.

Michael & susan dell foundation india, llp

Investment Associate

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs · New Delhi, Delhi, India

First ever Associate hire.
Early-stage investing in education, employability, fintech + policy work with the government.
My portfolio:
Eduvanz: Education financing platform, now backed by Sequoia
King's Learning (Enguru): India's leading spoken English mobile app, acquired by OpenEnglish
Avanti Fellows: India's first ed-tech solution for the secondary public education system
Foundation for Excellence: Scholarships and employability support to engineering students
Led quarterly portfolio analysis.

Elevar equity

Investment Analyst (TPG Rise's co-investing partner in India)

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

Elevar is TPG Rise's co-investing partner in India. Early-stage investing across edtech, fintech, healthcare, and agri-tech sectors.
Investments:
Lead School: Full-stack SaaS solution for schools, now backed by GSV & Westbridge
Glocal: Telemedicine and hospital chain for rural India, also backed by Sequoia
Varthana: India’s leading school-financing player, now backed by Chrys Capital
Origa: Fintech leasing solution for enterprises
Madura: Leading micro-finance player

Deutsche bank

2 roles

Investment Banking Senior Analyst

Promoted

Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr

Youngest recipient of the Deutsche Bank Recognition Award in Australia. Sole analyst on deals of $4BN+, including the largest coal M&A globally since 2013. Early promotion to senior analyst.
Spent 2 years learning a lot about coal, gold, copper, bauxite, and iron ore!