Two young engineers from IIT Kharagpur, Varun Vummadi and Esha Manideep, have just achieved what most startup founders only dream of: a $61 million Series A funding round for their AI startup Giga. The San Francisco-based company, which builds voice-based AI agents for businesses, secured the funding in a round led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator and Nexus Venture Partners.
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The milestone is even more remarkable given how the journey began. Just two years ago, Vummadi and Manideep were turning down life-changing offers, a PhD place at Stanford and lucrative jobs at top finance firms, to chase an uncertain dream of buildin
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