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Jaswanth Vedantam

Founder’s Office Associate @Chai Shots | NIT Calicut

Hyderabad

2+ years of work experience

Chai Shots
Dec 20259 mosPresent

Hyderabad

AI, Product & Growth (Founding Team). Backed by marquee investors like General Catalyst and InfoEdge. Joined Chai Shots at the absolute zero to one phase to build the entire analytical and strategic brain from scratch . Building things here as founder’s office Associate - Growth hacking my way into it especially with AI systems that I built focusing on driving the overall business growth. When I am not deep in the data or A/B testing product features or building AI systems that compound, I am synthesizing all this beautiful chaos into monthly investor updates for our VC board. Just building, experimenting, and turning wild ideas into actual unit economics.
VC Lab
Jan 20263 mosMar 2026

Palo Alto, CA

Venture Institute Cohort 6 by VC Lab / Decile Group. A global venture capital program for aspiring VCs, operators, angels, and future fund managers. The cohort brought together ambitious people from 70+ countries, with the program covering the core building blocks of venture: thesis development, deal sourcing, diligence, fund mechanics, portfolio thinking, and AI-powered VC workflows. What stood out most was the mix of rigor and community — learning with people across geographies who are all trying to understand how capital can back better companies, better markets, and better futures.
Stealth Startup
2025Less than a year2025

New Delhi, Delhi, India

- Co-led the development of a new agri-tech venture from a concept to a launch-ready state. The mission was to build a fair-market supply chains & processing plant for a specific agricultural commodity in partnership. - I owned the entire strategic and financial workstream end-to-end. This included conducting deep market research, devising the market entry and GTM strategy , architecting the foundational 3-year growth strategy, and building the complete business plan and financial models. On boarded microbiologists, chemical engineers and plant operators. - Authored the investor pitch deck and successfully presented the business case, which was instrumental in securing initial commitment from HNI investors to capitalize the venture.
ZEISS India
Jul 20241 yr 5 mosNov 2025

Bengaluru

Jaswanth’s AI Stack

antigravity
antigravity
opencode
opencode

Education

National institute of technology Calicut

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

National institute of technology Calicut

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Headline

Founder’s Office Associate @Chai Shots | NIT Calicut

About

Hello there, I'm Vasudeva Jaswanth(VJ), an engineer by training with a deep-seated passion for building. I work in Chai Shots' Founder's Office building unit economics and growth strategy. National Best Writer (Indian Film House), Engineer from NIT Calicut (JEE Top 1%, Medhaavi Scholar), former ZEISS engineer.I'm someone who's failed building a venture and have lived the 0→1 journey multiple times. Beyond profession, I am a fitness enthusiast, believing in the power of a healthy body for a healthy mind. Always up for conversations about startups, emerging markets, or the builder's journey.

Location

Hyderabad

AI stack

antigravity

opencode

Work experience

Founder’s Office Associate at Chai Shots, Dec 2025 - Present · 9 mos, Hyderabad, AI, Product & Growth (Founding Team). Backed by marquee investors like General Catalyst and InfoEdge. Joined Chai Shots at the absolute zero to one phase to build the entire analytical and strategic brain from scratch . Building things here as founder’s office Associate - Growth hacking my way into it especially with AI systems that I built focusing on driving the overall business growth. When I am not deep in the data or A/B testing product features or building AI systems that compound, I am synthesizing all this beautiful chaos into monthly investor updates for our VC board. Just building, experimenting, and turning wild ideas into actual unit economics.

Venture Capital Fellow at VC Lab, Jan 2026 - Mar 2026 · 3 mos, Palo Alto, CA, Venture Institute Cohort 6 by VC Lab / Decile Group. A global venture capital program for aspiring VCs, operators, angels, and future fund managers. The cohort brought together ambitious people from 70+ countries, with the program covering the core building blocks of venture: thesis development, deal sourcing, diligence, fund mechanics, portfolio thinking, and AI-powered VC workflows. What stood out most was the mix of rigor and community — learning with people across geographies who are all trying to understand how capital can back better companies, better markets, and better futures.

Co-Founder at Stealth Startup, 2025 - 2025 · Less than a year, New Delhi, Delhi, India, - Co-led the development of a new agri-tech venture from a concept to a launch-ready state. The mission was to build a fair-market supply chains & processing plant for a specific agricultural commodity in partnership. - I owned the entire strategic and financial workstream end-to-end. This included conducting deep market research, devising the market entry and GTM strategy , architecting the foundational 3-year growth strategy, and building the complete business plan and financial models. On boarded microbiologists, chemical engineers and plant operators. - Authored the investor pitch deck and successfully presented the business case, which was instrumental in securing initial commitment from HNI investors to capitalize the venture.

Software Engineer at ZEISS India, Jul 2024 - Nov 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National institute of technology Calicut