Hi NVIDIA Inception team,
I applied on June 12, 2026 for Threvo Labs (threvo.co) and received an immediate rejection. The application form requires two contacts, but as a pre-seed startup where both founders are deeply technical and work together daily, I did not realize this was a hard requirement. I filled both fields with my own details by mistake. This was not intentional. My co-founder Kanchan Kumari is a genuine founding team member and should have been listed. I made a data entry mistake.
Why We Believe This Was a Form Error-
Threvo Labs meets every published Inception requirement:
- AI-first startup: We are building SRED, an AI training optimizer that detects and skips inactive module computation during training - directly reduces GPU compute waste on NVIDIA hardware
- NVIDIA technology: Our entire benchmark stack runs on NVIDIA H100 GPUs with NVML hardware energy monitoring
- Incorporated company: Threvo Labs Private Limited, India - threvo.co
- Pre-seed stage: Exactly the stage Inception is designed to support
- Technical depth: Working benchmark on LLaMA 1B / 20B tokens showing 3.34% hardware-measured throughput gain. Math paper under review at Letters in Mathematical Physics, Springer 2026
What We Are Asking For
- Allow us to correct the contact information and reapply before December 9
- A human review of our application given the form error
Our two founders:
- Dev Shaurya (Co-Founder & CTO) - dev@threvo.co
- Kanchan Kumari (Co-Founder) - kanchankshree91@gmail.com
NVIDIA hardware is the foundation of our product. SRED exists specifically to make NVIDIA GPUs more efficient during training. Inception membership is critical for us to run the definitive 7B benchmark that proves this.
@TomNVIDIA — would greatly appreciate any help routing this to the right team.
Thank you,
Dev Shaurya
Co-Founder & CTO, Threvo Labs