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Shivdev Rao serves in a Founding Pillar capacity at Pillar VC. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's published mandate is included only as shared context.
Founders with unusual insight, strong execution ability and credible evidence that back technical founders and research scientists at inception, using a founder-owned network to help commercialize AI, biotech and deep-technology breakthroughs.
Opportunities outside the firm's published sectors, stages or geographic mandate are less aligned; no broader exclusion is inferred without a public statement.
Show founder-market fit, the problem and differentiated solution, early evidence, market scale, the milestone this round funds and why Pillar VC is the right partner.
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Shivdev Rao is listed by Pillar VC as Founding Pillar. Also CEO of Abridge.