06FOUNDERS & ADVISORS

Thepeoplebehindthefirm.

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Arjun Vad

01 / Founder

Arjun Vad

Founder · San Francisco

  • My name is Arjun Vad, and I thank you for the opportunity to introduce myself.
  • I founded Agencity to bridge the gap between innovation and execution, so frontier technology actually reaches frontier markets.
  • I'm an early investor in CLD-9 and do growth for the company, which is building personalized medicine powered by robotics and is now backed by Antler and Boost VC. I'm also an early investor in Raisi, an AI fundraising platform powering $500M+ in active raise campaigns, and in Mussel Polymers, which just closed a $10M Series A. Before that, I did founding engineering and growth at a16z-backed Axal.
  • Earlier, I took an AI product to 7,000 users and 4M organic impressions with $0 in paid spend.
  • I'm studying Computational Mathematics at UCLA and grew up in Bombay.
  • Staying curious at Titanic's End.
Amitesh Das

02 / Co-founder

Amitesh Das

Co-Founder & Founding Partner · Bangalore

  • Runs Agencity's India side from Bangalore: sourcing, screening, diligence, and founder events, including the OpenSwarm Build Jam, which drew 1,000+ applications.
  • Built FORGE, the screening platform every founder in the firm's intake goes through, and a research engine that tracks deep-tech papers and grants before a company forms around them.
  • While still in school, built a reverse-diffusion protocol for watermarking AI-generated video that reached Y Combinator's final round. OpenAI later used similar technology.
  • At BITS Goa, co-founded the campus sports club, now 500+ players and sponsored by Red Bull in its first year, and led CEL, the entrepreneurship cell, with a team of 50+.
  • B.E. in Mathematics and Computing and M.Sc. in Economics at BITS Goa. 20+ Olympiad medals and AIR 251 in the ISI entrance exam.
Justin Hardin

03 / COO

Justin Hardin

Founding Team Member & COO · San Francisco

  • Previously co-founder and CTO of Climatebase, the climate careers platform connecting over a million job seekers a year with climate-focused roles.
  • Was also co-founder and CTO behind SF Climate Week, and built its platform.
  • Forbes 30 Under 30.
  • Previously a senior software engineer at Slack and an engineer at Gusto. Has lived and worked in ten countries.

The team and the circle around the firm

Beyond the founding team, Agencity runs with a team of 50+ operations people across its markets, and an advisor circle of technology founders and venture investors, with relationships across the US, India, and the Gulf.

Named advisor profiles are added to this page as they are made public. Individual introductions available in conversation.