https://davidkumaran.com/startup-investor daily 0.75 2024-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/fd8af06f-121d-41e2-8ab4-b57ec1dd722a/Spiritual_blockchain_DAO_Web3_Kumaran_Alkemist_Founder_Investor_Web3Native_yogi_Immigrant_Dravidian_ Startup Investor - STARTUP INVESTOR David is an early-stage investor, a General Partner at Ascend Capital and a Founding Partner at Future Stack. Inspired by Sutter Hill, with enhancements for 2024, Future model focuses on human-centric entrepreneurship aimed at improving the well-being of individuals and the planet. David's investment philosophy centers on supporting early-stage founders, with a particular emphasis on preventing founder burnout. Having experienced the venture cycle himself and mentored hundreds of founders, he has observed burnout becoming a common theme. David is committed to helping founders achieve sustainable growth while maintaining their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. David completed the YC of General Partner training and graduated from Plexo Capital’s first GPx cohort. David has also served as an advisor and mentor to 500 Startups, A16z’s TxO Fund, YC, and TechStars. His portfolio includes companies like Wisy, Pendulum, Mirza, Ecotone, Breakr, Drop Party (acquired), Surge.ai, Veracity Protocol, 8 Myles, among many others. https://davidkumaran.com/entrepreneur daily 0.75 2024-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/b3488ad9-7888-4cf5-9e9c-6b87b3379b1d/Spiritual_blockchain_DAO_Web3_Kumaran_Alkemist_Founder_Investor_Web3Native_yogi_Immigrant_Dravidian.jpeg Entrepreneur - ENTREPRENEUR David has built 5 startups, achieved 3 successful exits, raised over $100 million, and advised more than 100 companies. He is currently the Co-Founder and Head of Growth at Wisy. As a multifaceted polymath and an alkemist, David combines more than two decades of experience as an entrepreneur and investor with his journey into yoga. This unique blend informs his human-centric approach to entrepreneurship. David understands that Silicon Valley is a mindset that augments high-growth ecosystems. From this very baseline, he has derived his blueprint for sustainably building Seed to Series B companies. David was part of the leadership team at Handy, which was acquired by ANGI, and he also co-founded startups that were acquired by Nextel (which was later acquired by Sprint/T-Mobile) and BP Solar (a subsidiary of BP). At the helm of a Silicon Valley Co-Lab program Dojo, David served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR), collaborating with various Fortune 100 companies, sports leagues, and think tanks, including the NFLPA, Fanatics, Toyota, GM, DMI and IFTF. The venture builder Satya emerged as the culmination of David's work, concentrating on early-stage startups focused on societal innovation. His aim was to accelerate and mitigate the risks of ideas by emphasizing growth and product. https://davidkumaran.com/crypto daily 0.75 2024-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/dcf55830-ba4e-45f2-8bef-10669078a831/tempImageOf8VEd.jpg Crypto - Crypto Investor & Contributor David is part of the Bitcoin class of 2013. He doubled down in 2017 and tripled down in 2020. He identifies as a "Satoshian," fully embracing the fundamentals of blockchain, including its principles of trust, transparency, and inclusion. David believes that blockchain is a spiritual technology; for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, we have a technological framework with the potential to enhance human consciousness on our planet. With a comprehensive background in building companies, early investment in cryptocurrency, and a deep understanding of capital markets, David is an ideal builder and contributor. His diverse experience at the intersection of AI + Crypto + Culture provides him with a unique perspective to create and contribute to communities and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/5e813d7b-92a6-4fdb-858a-f1d0c744453f/Auroville-.jpeg Crypto - Auroville David lived in Auroville for 3 years, a universal township in south-India, dedicated to an experiment and a purpose to realize human unity. A place where all people, from all countries, above creeds and politics, are able to live in peace and progressive harmony. David believes Auroville to be the first version of the DAO city model. Communities being the theme of web3 and engineering these communities into functional DAO organizations is the future of web3. Having experientially lived at the intersectionality of decentralized communities based in skill-sharing gift economy with inclusive governance, David has a very unique perspective to help shape the future of DAO organizations and cities. https://davidkumaran.com/spiritual-engineer-1 daily 0.75 2024-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/a03c7abf-0de6-439e-a2b8-d6f959bc6d4b/Spiritual_blockchain_DAO_Web3_Kumaran_Alkemist_Founder_Investor_Web3Native_yogi_Immigrant_Dravidian_3.JPG Spiritual Engineer - SPIRITUAL ENGINEER 10K+ Meditation Hours | Integral & Hatha Yoga Born in the East and raised in the West, David Kumaran grew up enmeshed in two disparate cultures, the polarity of which left him with many unanswered questions about his life and origins. At the age of 30, he took a motorcycle journey through India that would change his life forever. What began as a short trip to visit family turned into a three year exploration of self, culture, and yoga, through which he discovered that all the answers he was seeking lay within himself. Thus began his journey of inner engineering. David unlocked his first mind spiritual code in his three years living in Auroville, where he studied and trained in Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga. This method gave him the mechanics to break down the spiritual code that lay within and build a practice for his daily life. During those nomadic and decentralized years in Auroville, David realized that home was no longer a geographical location–home was within. No matter what was happening on the outside, he felt at home within himself. In 2016, David met Sadhguru, under whom he currently studies, and whose guidance led him to unlock the spiritual code of the heart. Having trained in Integral and Hatha yoga for 10+ years, David has learned how to balance his body, mind, and energy, emerging as an undercover yogi with embedded spiritual code. David’s life experiences and the downloaded spiritual source code allow him to build from a unique place. As a spiritual engineer, he looks at consciousness as a cipher to encrypt within both new and existing systems. David mission is to elevate the state of human consciousness and build a conscious planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/5e813d7b-92a6-4fdb-858a-f1d0c744453f/Spiritual_blockchain_DAO_Web3_Kumaran_Alkemist_Founder_Investor_Web3Native_yogi_Immigrant_Dravidian_Auroville-.jpeg Spiritual Engineer - Auroville David lived in Auroville for 3 years, a universal township in south-India, dedicated to an experiment and a purpose to realize human unity. A place where all people, from all countries, above creeds and politics, are able to live in peace and progressive harmony. At Auroville, David had a powerful meditative experience where he realized that meditation is not something you do, it is something that happens to you. This altered David’s life trajectory and priorities leading him to spend the next three years in deep self-exploration. Living in Auroville, David discovered himself and yoga. https://davidkumaran.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/fd8af06f-121d-41e2-8ab4-b57ec1dd722a/21B89AFA-9DF2-41A0-89E9-C27042E76182.JPG Home Entrepreneur, Investor & Alkemist Building at the frontier of AI and Blockchain. Currently scaling my sixth company, wisy.ai, backed by 8VC, Coca-Cola, Kamay Ventures, and others. I bridge a world of experience in venture and financial engineering with a human-centric core, understanding that balancing high speeds with stillness is paramount in the AI era, driving groundbreaking impact. https://davidkumaran.com/startup-investor-1 daily 0.75 2023-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/fd8af06f-121d-41e2-8ab4-b57ec1dd722a/Spiritual_blockchain_DAO_Web3_Kumaran_Alkemist_Founder_Investor_Web3Native_yogi_Immigrant_Dravidian_ Startup Investor (Copy) - STARTUP INVESTOR David is an angel investor who invests both personally and from his family office fund. David completed the YC of General Partner training and graduated from Plexo Capital’s GPx (first cohort). After GPx, David created Satya.vc. David’s investment ethos revolves around early-stage founders with an emphasis on preventing founder burnout. Having built in the venture cycle himself and mentored hundreds of founders, David has watched burnout emerge as a standard theme. At Satya.vc, David is dedicated to helping founders sustainably build by maintaining physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. Wellbeing is a core elements of the Future Stack. Over the last decade in Silicon Valley, David has served as an advisor and mentor to 500 Startups, A16z’s TxO Fund, and YC. His portfolio companies include Creation.Space, The Well, Surge.ai, MetaGoons, Drop Party (acquired), Veracity Protocol, Sugardoh, 8 Myles, Mirza, Breakr, Create/OS, Pamper, Wake, Alkeme, among many others. In addition, David is a high-performance coach for founders and leaders. https://davidkumaran.com/home-1 daily 0.75 2023-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/8ac5165c-8fb6-4d64-b3bd-a8c88828e166/PPP.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/29a782ec-fe48-49eb-9df1-9ce34ef8a192/Untitled_design_-_2023-07-17T011538.222-removebg-preview.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/29a782ec-fe48-49eb-9df1-9ce34ef8a192/Untitled_design_-_2023-07-17T011538.222-removebg-preview.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/29a782ec-fe48-49eb-9df1-9ce34ef8a192/Untitled_design_-_2023-07-17T011538.222-removebg-preview.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/29a782ec-fe48-49eb-9df1-9ce34ef8a192/Untitled_design_-_2023-07-17T011538.222-removebg-preview.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/29a782ec-fe48-49eb-9df1-9ce34ef8a192/Untitled_design_-_2023-07-17T011538.222-removebg-preview.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/29a782ec-fe48-49eb-9df1-9ce34ef8a192/Untitled_design_-_2023-07-17T011538.222-removebg-preview.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/29a782ec-fe48-49eb-9df1-9ce34ef8a192/Untitled_design_-_2023-07-17T011538.222-removebg-preview.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/29a782ec-fe48-49eb-9df1-9ce34ef8a192/Untitled_design_-_2023-07-17T011538.222-removebg-preview.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/29a782ec-fe48-49eb-9df1-9ce34ef8a192/Untitled_design_-_2023-07-17T011538.222-removebg-preview.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/29a782ec-fe48-49eb-9df1-9ce34ef8a192/Untitled_design_-_2023-07-17T011538.222-removebg-preview.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/c0e98430-f6a5-43da-ae9b-01337d0c6359/pexels-anastasia-shuraeva-7279327.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/b7ca713a-7a57-4a56-9fe2-00648ed04bfe/quote.jpg https://davidkumaran.com/cryptoweb3-1 daily 0.75 2023-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/dcf55830-ba4e-45f2-8bef-10669078a831/tempImageOf8VEd.jpg Crypto & Web3 (Copy) - Crypto & Web3 Investor & Contributor David is the Bitcoin class of 2013. He doubled down in 2017 and tripled down in 2020. David considers himself a Satoshian, embracing the fundamentals of blockchain and its principles of trust, transparency, and inclusion. He believes blockchain is a spiritual technology; for the first time since the industrial revolution we possess a tech stack that has the potential to enhance human consciousness on this planet. David’s comprehensive background building companies, early investment in crypto, and understanding of the future of work makes him an ideal builder in Web3. His diverse experience at the intersection of Marketplace + Crypto + Culture gives him a unique perspective to create and contribute to Web3 communities. Web3 contributor highlights include: Wilder World, Big Green DAO, MetaGoons, YGG, and Zero. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/5e813d7b-92a6-4fdb-858a-f1d0c744453f/Auroville-.jpeg Crypto & Web3 (Copy) - Auroville David lived in Auroville for 3 years, a universal township in south-India, dedicated to an experiment and a purpose to realize human unity. A place where all people, from all countries, above creeds and politics, are able to live in peace and progressive harmony. David believes Auroville to be the first version of the DAO city model. Communities being the theme of web3 and engineering these communities into functional DAO organizations is the future of web3. Having experientially lived at the intersectionality of decentralized communities based in skill-sharing gift economy with inclusive governance, David has a very unique perspective to help shape the future of DAO organizations and cities. https://davidkumaran.com/serial-entrepreneur-1 daily 0.75 2023-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/b3488ad9-7888-4cf5-9e9c-6b87b3379b1d/Spiritual_blockchain_DAO_Web3_Kumaran_Alkemist_Founder_Investor_Web3Native_yogi_Immigrant_Dravidian.jpeg Serial Entrepreneur (Copy) - SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR David has built 5 Startups, had 3 Exits, raised over $100M, and advised more than 100+ companies. David is a multifaceted polymath and an alkemist. Fusing more than two decades of experience as an entrepreneur and investor with his path of yoga, David is helping the next generations of entrepreneurs navigate the idea maze of their early ventures at Satya.vc, a venture builder for early-stage startups with a focus on societal innovation. Having spent over a decade building in Silicon Valley, David understands that Silicon Valley is a mindset that augments high-growth ecosystems. From this very baseline, he has derived his blueprint for sustainably building Seed to Series B companies. David was part of the leadership team at Handy (Acquired by ANGI) and also co-founded start-ups that were acquired by Nextel (acquired by Sprint/T-Mobile) and BP Solar (subsidiary of BP). At the helm of a Silicon Valley Co-Lab program Tech Dojo, David worked as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) with a variety of Fortune100 Companies, Sports Leagues, and Think Tanks, including Toyota, GM, NFLPA, NBPA, Fanatics, DMI and IFTF. Satya.vc is the evolution and culmination of that work, with a shift in focus from corporates to early stage startups. https://davidkumaran.com/spiritual-engineer-1-1 daily 0.75 2023-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/a03c7abf-0de6-439e-a2b8-d6f959bc6d4b/Spiritual_blockchain_DAO_Web3_Kumaran_Alkemist_Founder_Investor_Web3Native_yogi_Immigrant_Dravidian_3.JPG Spiritual Engineer (Copy) - SPIRITUAL ENGINEER 10K+ Meditation Hours | Integral & Hatha Yoga Born in the East and raised in the West, David Kumaran grew up enmeshed in two disparate cultures, the polarity of which left him with many unanswered questions about his life and origins. At the age of 30, he took a motorcycle journey through India that would change his life forever. What began as a short trip to visit family turned into a three year exploration of self, culture, and yoga, through which he discovered that all the answers he was seeking lay within himself. Thus began his journey of inner engineering. David unlocked his first mind spiritual code in his three years living in Auroville, where he studied and trained in Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga. This method gave him the mechanics to break down the spiritual code that lay within and build a practice for his daily life. During those nomadic and decentralized years in Auroville, David realized that home was no longer a geographical location–home was within. No matter what was happening on the outside, he felt at home within himself. In 2016, David met Sadhguru, under whom he currently studies, and whose guidance led him to unlock the spiritual code of the heart. Having trained in Integral and Hatha yoga for 10+ years, David has learned how to balance his body, mind, and energy, emerging as an undercover yogi with embedded spiritual code. David’s life experiences and the downloaded spiritual source code allow him to build from a unique place. As a spiritual engineer, he looks at consciousness as a cipher to encrypt within both new and existing systems. David mission is to elevate the state of human consciousness and build a conscious planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624a53ad5b958a7345b0e794/5e813d7b-92a6-4fdb-858a-f1d0c744453f/Spiritual_blockchain_DAO_Web3_Kumaran_Alkemist_Founder_Investor_Web3Native_yogi_Immigrant_Dravidian_Auroville-.jpeg Spiritual Engineer (Copy) - Auroville David lived in Auroville for 3 years, a universal township in south-India, dedicated to an experiment and a purpose to realize human unity. A place where all people, from all countries, above creeds and politics, are able to live in peace and progressive harmony. At Auroville, David had a powerful meditative experience where he realized that meditation is not something you do, it is something that happens to you. This altered David’s life trajectory and priorities leading him to spend the next three years in deep self-exploration. Living in Auroville, David discovered himself and yoga.