Founders of these $100 million startups all have a Delhi school's computer science club in common — can you guess?

Deedy Das, partner at Menlo Park-based Venture Capital (VC) fund company Menlo Ventures, has shared an interesting detail about the founders of some of the over $100 million valued companies started over the past decade.

In a post on social media platform X, Das noted that the founders of each of the companies on this list were part of one Computer Science club in a non-American high school.

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The now viral post, which at the time of writing of this copy had more than 4.85 lakh views and more than 1,600 likes, noted that the founders of companies, including Snapdeal, boAt, Sugar Cosmetics, and Cartesia, were all members of a science club at a Delhi school.

“Every single one of these $100M+ companies were started by alumni from a single Computer Science club in a non-American high school. Cartesia, Inception Labs, General Catalyst CVF, Wispr Flow, Affinity, Snapdeal, Sugar, boAt,” Das wrote.

The club? “It's Exun Clan in Delhi Public School, RK Puram in India,” he added.

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• 2010 — E-commerce company Snapdeal's Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal: Founded in 2010, the company was last valued at $1 billion. While Bahl went on to study at Penn, Bansal is a graduate of IIT Delhi.
• 2012 — Makeup company Sugar Cosmetics' Vineeta Singh: Founded in 2012, the company was last valued between $250-500 million. Singh graduated from IIT Madras.
• 2016 — Electronics maker boAt's Aman Gupta: Founded in 2016, the company was last valued at over $1 billion. Gupta graduated from Delhi University.
• 2016 — Heart healthcare company Recora's Abhishek Chandra: Founded in 2016, the company was last valued at over $1 billion. Chandra graduated from Yale.
• 2017 — Customer management company Affinity's Shubham Goel: Founded in 2017, the company was last valued between $500 million and $1 billion. Goel graduated from Stanford.

• 2020 — Venture financing company General Catalyst CVF's Karanveer Mohan: Founded in 2020, the company at last count had found size over $1 billion. Mohan also graduated from Stanford.
• 2021 — AI voice dictation company Wispr Flow's Tanay Kothari: Founded in 2021, the company was last valued at over $250 million. Kothari is also an alumnus of Stanford.
• 2023 — AI voice models company Cartesia's Karan Goel: Founded in 2023, the company was last valued between $500 million to $1 billion. Goel graduated from IIT Delhi.
• 2024 — Diffusion based AI models company Inception Lab's Aditya Grover: Founded in 2024, the company was last valued at over $250 million. Grover is also an alumnus of IIT Delhi.