Who is Varun Vummadi? IIT grad who rejected Stanford PhD and raised $61M startup
Published on: Nov. 7, 2025, 3:33 p.m. | Source: India Today
IIT Kharagpur graduate Varun Vummadi turned down a Stanford PhD and a $525K global HFT job offer to build Giga with batchmate Esha Manideep. Two years later, the AI chatbot that is smarter and cheaper than its peers has raised a $61M Series A to automate customer operations with AI, serving major clients like DoorDash.
