About
Lalit Kundu reached Staff Engineer at Google, where he led a large engineering organization and worked on high-revenue products. Earlier, he built core infrastructure for Google Pay India. He has competitive programming experience including ACM-ICPC World Finals participation and coaching India's International Olympiad in Informatics team.
Lalit Kundu @lalitkundu_lk
Across 150 seed pitches my deck barely changed, but my vocabulary did. I kept catching the same little hedges: "we're exploring X" when we'd already shipped it, "we think this could work" instead of saying how it works, "hoping to close by Q3" instead of "we'll close by Q3." https://t.co/6PYZGeH2Eb
Jul 31, 2026
Lalit Kundu @lalitkundu_lk
Before we applied to YC, I figured there had to be a hidden trick to the application -- too many smart founders apply for it to be that straightforward. After we got in, I read 20+ apps from founder friends and the pattern was pretty obvious: the first one-line question does https://t.co/Fh0VV4ItE6
Jul 30, 2026
Lalit Kundu @lalitkundu_lk
My first investor update was two pages long, and one of our investors replied with three words: "I skimmed it." He backs about 30 companies and reads updates over one coffee on the first Monday of the month, so two pages was never going to work. I cut ours down to one line of https://t.co/4St9Yb6avq
Jul 29, 2026
Founder at PelicaYC X25
Intro paths
Lalit went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Pelica's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Lalit can intro founders to Pelica's investors below.
Pelica's investors Β· 1
Co-founders at Pelica
