Vihaar Nandigala, Orange Slice, Co-Founder on AI Sales Prospecting
Episode description
Vihaar Nandigala is Co-Founder of Orange Slice (YC S25). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Nebius — the ultimate cloud for AI innovators.Nebius provides AI infrastructure you can count on, combining reliability and speed with flexibility and engineering support unmatched by hyperscalers.AI leaders like Meta, Shopify, and Higgsfield already partner with Nebius to run their AI workloads. Plus, venture-backed startups can save up to $150,000 on compute costs when they apply for access. Visit nebius.com or nebius.com/startups to learn more~~~~~~~~~~~~~The AI agent platform inside spreadsheets helping sales teams discover high-intent companies already in-market through real-time signals from websites, news, social, court records, and building permits—raising $5.3M seed led by 1984 Capital/Moxxie Ventures with Paul Graham; built with Michigan sophomore co-founder Kishan Sripada (Bollywood dance team origin story) targeting sales engineers at startups like Novoflow/Pirros; solves core sales timing problem replacing static lists with living, actionable account lists at 23 years old with YC-backed playbook for accessible growth engineering.Topics
- How Orange Slice finds in-market buyers without static lists or growth engineer hires
- Growing Orange Slice $5.3M seed during launch phase with Paul Graham backing
- AI prospecting readiness with real-time signals at spreadsheet-native scale