# Shasi Pinninti

> UC Berkeley M.E.T. (EECS + Business) | Partner @ Dorm Room Fund | Prev. @ TSMC, IBM, Chevron

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shasi

San Francisco | Berkeley | Singapore

Hardware and humanistic AI. More at www.shasipinninti.com.

## Work Experience
### Investment Partner @ Dorm Room Fund
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Preseed fund investing in exceptional student founders

Multi unicorn portfolio (Cursor, Hightouch, Shield AI, etc.), backed by a16z and First Round

### Process Integration Engineer Intern @ TSMC
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Phoenix, AZ
AI tooling for NVIDIA Blackwell

### Co-Founder @ VTOL at Berkeley
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Berkeley, CA
Hardware + human interface

Built an air taxi capable of carrying a person (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFwFF8ty4Iw)

### Product Design & UX Research @ CareerVillage.org
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
Educational LLMs

Researched, ideated, and launched https://www.aicareercoach.org/ for institutions

### Product Intern @ Chevron
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Houston, TX
New energies - geothermal, nuclear, lithium security

### Head of University Scouting & Programs @ Draper University
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Mateo, California, United States
Portfolio includes 60+ unicorns (Tesla, SpaceX, Coinbase, etc.)

### Product @ Lucid Motors
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Newark, California, United States
Design for Lucid app, product for Gravity and Air Sapphire

### Advanced Analytics Intern @ Amret MFI
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Phnom Penh, Cambodia

### Freshman Discovery Program @ Susquehanna International Group, LLP (SIG)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023

### Strategy Consultant @ BLUE ORIGIN
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Co-Founder @ Diamond Point 3D, LLC.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Singapore
Sustainable, closed loop fashion brand

### Aerospace Team Lead @ Conrad Challenge
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Houston, Texas, United States
2x finalist
1x NASA Goddard award winner

Asteroid mining and fire prevention drones

### Intern @ IBM
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Singapore
Quantum computing


## Education
### UC Berkeley Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
UC Berkeley College of Engineering

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Business Administration
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

### High School Diploma
UWC South East Asia

### IB Diploma
International Baccalaureate


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shasi-pinninti

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Last updated: 2026-04-05