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We help Pre-Seed stage startups overcome resource-gap in financing their technology development to transform their idea into a testable MVP product.

To maximize your startup's probability of success and fulfill your startup's other requirements, we provide you access to a curated network of domain experts. Everyone in this network brings in a specialized functional knowledge, while having an experience of / inclination towards entrepreneurial ventures. Individuals in this network can be reached out to, as and when the need arises for your startup.

Flora Wu

Current: Product Manager, SalesforceIQ (formerly RelateIQ)

Previous engagements: Investor, Venture Capital || Consultant, McKinsey & Co.

Education: MBA, Harvard Business School || A.B., Princeton University

Special Interests: Product Management, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship

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Gaurav Jain

Current: Principal at Founder Collective, a seed-stage venture capital fund

Previous engagements: Co-founder and COO for a startup || Product Manager at Google || Strategic Advisor to a startup

Education: MBA, Harvard Business School || Software Engineering

Special Interests: Mobile, Social Media, Advertising, Product Management, Business Development

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Lenny Pruss

Lenny joined Redpoint in 2015. He focuses on investments in cloud infrastructure, developer tools, SaaS, and security. Prior to Redpoint, Lenny was at RRE Ventures, a leading early stage venture fund in New York, where he worked on the firm’s investments in Datadog, WhipTail (Cisco Systems) and several other companies.

Lenny began his career as an analyst at RRE Ventures, and prior to returning there after business school, he worked as a product manager at Dataminr and an analyst covering software, systems, and semiconductor companies at JAT Capital, a multibillion-dollar technology, media, and telecommunications-focused (TMT) hedge fund.

Lenny holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from the University of California at Berkeley, from which he graduated with honors.

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Stargate will keep expanding its network of advisors, to include more Product Managers, Investors, Marketing and Go-To-Market experts, as well as legal, accounting and brand management services