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Varun Gupta (Caffeinated Capital)

Varun Gupta is the Caffeinated Capital partner who joined in 2020. A generalist investor, he sourced companies including Saronic and Twenty. Previously he worked as a data scientist and machine-learning engineer at Affirm before its IPO, leading credit-underwriting systems. Earlier career affiliations include Expanse, subsequently acquired by Palo Alto Networks, and Wealthfront. He studied applied mathematics, computer science and AI at Stanford; no unspecified degree title is inferred. His current own biography names boards at Federato, Amca and Luzern and residence in New York. He is distinct from Dr. Varun Gupta of Wellington Partners and the protected existing Dunad board member. The parenthetical display qualification separates the namesakes while preserving his actual name. His original own portrait is visually verified.