Founder & CEO at Union. Formerly: Founder & Co-Chairman at Destiny (NYSE: DXYZ), Founder & Co-CEO at Forge (NYSE:FRGE), Angel Investor in 300+ startups, 20+ Unicorns. Y Combinator Alum.

I'm passionate about creatively using technology to build an inspiring future. Areas I've invested 10,000+ hours: Startups, Investing, Strategy, Engineering, Growth, and Meditation. ---- Samvit Ramadurgam is the Founder and CEO of Union, a new AI company that will be revealed to the world in 2025. Prior to starting Union, Samvit was the Founder and Co-Chairman of Destiny, an investment company that provides public access to the private tech markets. Destiny's flagship fund went public on the NYSE (NYSE:DXYZ), after raising $100m from private investors. Before founding Destiny, Samvit was the Founder and Co-CEO of Forge, a global private securities marketplace building trading, custody, and data infrastructure to meet the needs of high-growth unicorn companies, employees, and investors. Forge went public on the NYSE for $2B in 2022, after raising over $250m from private investors and acquiring two companies. Prior to starting Forge, Samvit was one of the youngest founders to go through Y Combinator at the age of 19. He graduated from the program in 2012, and founded Streem: a cloud storage company which was acquired by Box to become Box Drive. Samvit is an active angel investor and loves to support daring founders who have an inspiring vision. Over the years, Samvit has invested in over 300 startups at the seed stage, including 20+ unicorn startups at the seed stage like Retool, Rippling, Notion, Superhuman, Mercury, Filecoin, Gecko Robotics, Apollo.io, Mux.com, and Rappi. His earlier work spanned numerous startups, including Asana where he built out distributed systems infrastructure and Livemagic where he developed audio fingerprinting algorithms. In a previous life, he conducted research on high temperature superconductivity at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, analyzed the brain signals of rats as they ran mazes, and built autonomous robots. Samvit holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley. Technical Specialities: • Clojure/Clojurescript, Scala, Node.js/Javascript, Erlang/OTP, Java, C/C++, Python, Ruby • Algorithms, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Functional Programming • Distributed Systems, Database Systems, Web & Mobile Development • Nowadays: AI Engineering, Agentic Systems, Conversational Interfaces, Semantic indexing