Angel Capital · Venture Studio · AI + Security Residency
Backing aspiring entrepreneurs. Bridging the Bay Area.
Vitraag (vītarāga) — clarity without attachment. Founders keep control; we don't cling. (And yes, the initials are VC.)
India-for-India companies, built from Maharashtra outward.
We back founders using 20+ years of US software security and enterprise experience, deep healthcare domain access, and a Bay Area go-to-market bridge — impact-first, returns-aware, self-sustaining by Fund II.
Flagship
LLM red-teaming, guardrails, and compliance tooling for BFSI, government, and MIDC-belt manufacturers.
Impact
Vernacular AI in healthcare, agri, and MSME — with a proprietary dataset or a real distribution moat.
Returns
GPU orchestration, inference cost, AI ops — the picks-and-shovels layer of the neocloud buildout.
Two engines alongside the checks.
Deal Zero: DermaLens — secure, vernacular derm-AI for tier-2 Maharashtra, built and released open-source first. The idea traces back to TimeLens, a personal side project exploring the same "point your phone, see the layered history" pattern.
A signature AI + Security program for 8–15 exceptional Maharashtra engineers a year, feeding both the studio and the ecosystem. The first cohort is already live via the Cyber Defenders Internship Program.
Join the Collective on the ground in Maharashtra.
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Whether you're a college that could host the first residency cohort, a founder building AI security or vernacular AI, or someone who just wants to poke holes in the thesis — I want to hear from you.
