‘Indians are ugly in general but…’: AI startup Giga founders face racist attacks after raising $61 million

Indian software engineers Varun Vammadi and Esha Maindeep from IIT Kharagpur have just raised 61 million US dollars of funding for their AI startup Giga. The two engineers raised funding for their San Francisco-based AI startup during the Series A round. The funding was led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator and Nexus Venture Partners.