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Meet The Two 20-year-old Indian-origin AI Startup Founders Who've Turned Investor Darlings

Rejected by about 1,000 investors after they founded Vise at 16, Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra have lived to tell their tale— their AI-enabled investment management firm recently secured Series B funding of $45 million.

Investors might be more than happy to write cheques for them now, but there was a time when they were rejected by about 1,000 investors, including Vinod Khosla, the Delhi-bred billionaire titan of Silicon Valley.