Roundtable began with a conversation, not a pitch.
Yangchen and Sagnik met at a "Grab Chai" session — a casual gathering built for builders, not investors. What started as a chat over chai turned into a partnership, and eventually, a firm. No deck. No grand vision statement. Just two operators who had spent years in the trenches and kept seeing the same problem everywhere they looked.
Founders were getting capital. They weren't getting partners.
The money was there. What was missing was the investor who had actually built a supply chain, shipped a product, closed an enterprise deal, or navigated a Series A from the founder's seat. The gap between what VCs offered and what founders actually needed wasn't closing — it was widening. And great companies were dying in the middle of it.
That's the gap RoundTable was built to close.
Sitting around a literal round table, Yangchen and Sagnik made a simple decision: build the firm they wished had existed when they were starting out. One where investors were operators first. Where capital came with conviction, not just a term sheet. Where the people writing the check had already made the mistakes the founder was about to make — and could say so honestly.
Jason joined with the same belief — having raised capital, exited companies, and sat on the institutional side of the table, he understood better than most that the venture industry was optimized for the investor, rarely for the founder.
Together, they built RoundTable as a different kind of institution. Not a fund that meets quarterly and hopes for the best. A firm that takes board seats, shows up weekly, deploys a network of 20+ operators, and measures success by whether the founders in its portfolio actually win.
We invest at pre/seed in AI, DeepTech, and Healthcare — the stages where operator judgment changes outcomes. We back founders turning the impossible into the inevitable. And we do it because we've been that founder, and we know exactly what was missing.
This is the table we wished existed. It's open now.
Roundtable began with a conversation, not a pitch.
Yangchen and Sagnik met at a "Grab Chai" session — a casual gathering built for builders, not investors. What started as a chat over chai turned into a partnership, and eventually, a firm. No deck. No grand vision statement. Just two operators who had spent years in the trenches and kept seeing the same problem everywhere they looked.
Founders were getting capital. They weren't getting partners.
The money was there. What was missing was the investor who had actually built a supply chain, shipped a product, closed an enterprise deal, or navigated a Series A from the founder's seat. The gap between what VCs offered and what founders actually needed wasn't closing — it was widening. And great companies were dying in the middle of it.
That's the gap RoundTable was built to close.
Sitting around a literal round table, Yangchen and Sagnik made a simple decision: build the firm they wished had existed when they were starting out. One where investors were operators first. Where capital came with conviction, not just a term sheet. Where the people writing the check had already made the mistakes the founder was about to make — and could say so honestly.
Jason joined with the same belief — having raised capital, exited companies, and sat on the institutional side of the table, he understood better than most that the venture industry was optimized for the investor, rarely for the founder.
Together, they built RoundTable as a different kind of institution. Not a fund that meets quarterly and hopes for the best. A firm that takes board seats, shows up weekly, deploys a network of 20+ operators, and measures success by whether the founders in its portfolio actually win.
We invest at pre/seed in AI, DeepTech, and Healthcare — the stages where operator judgment changes outcomes. We back founders turning the impossible into the inevitable. And we do it because we've been that founder, and we know exactly what was missing.
This is the table we wished existed. It's open now.
