Anaiy Somalwar

Anaiy is an entrepreneur and investor. He studied EECS, Mathematics, and Business at UC Berkeley's Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program, and spent a term abroad at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. He is a member of SoftBank's Masason Foundation and the Berkeley Faculty Club. A former member of the U.S. Youth Chess Team and a national master of chess, he was also an Atlas Fellow.

He founded and bootstrapped a company to more than $10 million in revenue and high seven-figure EBITDA. He has sourced over $50 million in early-stage venture capital deals working at firms like Pear VC and Foundation Capital, and co-authored five IEEE papers with AI labs such as Berkeley AI Research and startups such as SiMa.ai and Respeecher.

He is a personal investor in OpenAI, Perplexity, and Anthropic, and formerly served as the District 6 Youth Commissioner of the City of San Jose. Contact: anaiy@berkeley.edu