Sindhya Valloppillil

Sindhya Valloppillil

Contributor|Venture Capital

Sindhya is the Founder & CEO of Skin Dossier, an AI-enabled Precision Skin Health (SaaS) company. She is also a Board Member at the Desai Foundation, a Venture Partner at Next Gen Ventures, a Techstars Mentor, an All Raise Steering Committee Member, and a former beauty industry

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328 viewsApr 11, 2025

South Of A Billion: Glossier’s Era Of Unicorn Hype May Be Over And Repercussions For The Beauty And Venture Capital Industries

South Of A Billion: Why Glossier’s Era Of Unicorn Hype May Be Over And Ramifications For Venture Capital and The Beauty Industry

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9,182 viewsApr 7, 2025

The Superstar Tech Executive Who Didn’t Raise Venture Capital And Self-Funded Her Startup

Bozoma Saint John, Former Uber, Apple, Netflix Executive, Didn’t Raise Venture Capital For Her Beauty Brand, She Self-Funded It

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3,165 viewsFeb 25, 2025

A GLP-1 Deep Dive — How Industries From Private Equity To Food Are Affected

The business of GLP-1s, it's mass adoption, compounded GLP-1s, compounding pharmacies, venture capital, and economic impact

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1,361 viewsSep 3, 2024

Default Alive: Survival Of The Fittest Female Founders With Little Or No VC Funding

Female Founders bootstrapped startups with little or no VC funding are M&A targets. Venture capital isn't needed. They are default alive per Paul Graham of YC

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754 viewsJun 17, 2024

Getting ‘Phygital’ — Payal Singhal And Endstate Team Up To Launch NFC Embedded Luxury Sneakers

Payal Singhal and Endstate team up to merge NFCs and luxury sneakers for phygital marketing experience

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493 viewsJun 5, 2024

Fundraising Is A Harder And Longer Process With Less Money For Underrepresented Founders — DocSend’s Funding Divide 2024 Report

Underrepresented founders have a harder longer fundraising process for less money. DocSend reveals biases in its fundraising report

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1,413 viewsMay 7, 2024

Gold House’s Glittering Reintroduction Of AAPI

Gold House celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander excellence with a reintroduction of AAPI and Gold Power Summit at Nasdaq

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460 viewsApr 16, 2024

Founders, Forget Warm Intros — Here’s A Better Way To Get Meetings With VCs

Founders, forget warm intros, here's a better way to get VC meetings for startup fundraising

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2,575 viewsApr 3, 2024

Dear VCs, Female Founders Don’t Want Bagels — We Want Honest Meetings

Many VC funds and diversity groups host events but don’t bother measuring the outcomes of their efforts. Female founders want meetings not bagels

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5,156 viewsMar 27, 2024

The Unfair Takedown Of A Female Founder

Takedown articles about female founders with hundreds of millions in VC funding usually have a story of egregious fraud or a toxic work environment — not in this case.