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Copy link Email Facebook<\/p>\n WhatsApp<\/p>\n X<\/p>\n LinkedIn<\/p>\n Bluesky<\/p>\n Threads<\/p>\n lighning bolt icon Impact Link<\/p>\n Save <\/p>\n Read in app<\/p>\n <\/a> <\/p>\n This story is available exclusively to Business Insider Two Michigan grads raised $5.3 million out of the Silicon Valley startup incubator Y Combinator. Two University of Michigan graduates who met on a Bollywood dance team have emerged from Y Combinator<\/a> with $5.3 million in seed funding.<\/p>\n Vihaar Nandigala and Kishan Sripada, both 23, cofounded sales product Orange Slice, which uses AI to generate prospecting spreadsheets using salespeople’s prompts and real-time data from across the web.<\/p>\n They said the company was born of the idea that the larger problem in sales isn’t messaging, but identifying who’s worth reaching out to.<\/p>\n Orange Slice sells subscriptions to customers like sales engineers, with fellow Y Combinator startups Novoflow<\/a>\u00a0and Pirros among its early users, they said.<\/p>\n 1984 Ventures and Moxxie Ventures co-led the seed round, and Paul Graham participated as an angel investor. Funds will go toward hiring engineering talent, Nandigala said.<\/p>\n
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\n Orange Slice generates sales spreadsheets using prompts from salespeople and sales engineers.
\n Here’s the pitch deck cofounders Vihaar Nandigala and Kishan Sripada used to raise their seed round.<\/p>\n