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"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. 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. Orange Slice sells subscriptions to customers like sales engineers, with fellow Y Combinator startups Novoflow and Pirros among its early users, they said."

"Nandigala and Sripada began building the startup and applied to Y Combinator as college seniors last year. At the time, YC advised them to finish school and reapply the following cycle despite its reputation for welcoming dropouts. They got accepted into the following batch in summer 2025, even as they spent much of their final semester focused on the business. "I don't remember any of my classes my last semester of college - I don't think I was the best student," Nandigala said. "Fundamentally, we were still working on the business full time.""

Vihaar Nandigala and Kishan Sripada cofounded Orange Slice, an AI product that generates prospecting spreadsheets from salespeople's prompts and real-time web data. The company raised $5.3 million in seed funding following participation in Y Combinator. 1984Ventures and Moxxie Ventures co-led the round, and Paul Graham participated as an angel investor. Orange Slice sells subscriptions to sales engineers and similar customers, with early users including Novoflow and Pirros. The founders applied to YC as college seniors, finished school, and joined a subsequent batch. Raised funds will be used to hire engineering talent and scale the product.

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