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Rajat Bhageria

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Smart Money Rating: 93 out of 100

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Prototype Capital

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Prototype Capital
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Co-Founder and Managing Partner
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Managing partner
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Record updated 18 September 2026

About

In addition to running Prototype Capital, Rajat is the Founder and CEO of Chef Robotics (backed by Kleiner Perkins and others). Previously, he was Co-Founder/CEO of ThirdEye, a product that empowers visually impaired persons by verbally recognizing what they are looking at using computer vision; ThirdEye was acquired in 2017. He is currently a contributor at Forbes and in the past, he worked as the Interim COO of the IoT startup MainTool, was part of the Equity Crowdfunding team at Indiegogo, was a Kleiner Perkins KPCB Fellow, worked in VC at Red and Blue Ventures (Warby Parker and Jet.com), and has worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Wharton School. He attended the University of Pennsylvania for a BS in Economics from The Wharton School and a MS in Engineering from Penn Engineering.

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