Darshan Somashekar

Venture Partner at TMV

Co-Founder
2019
Unwind Media is a casual games platform. Our main product, Solitaired, is the #1 result on Google and reaches millions of users monthly. In addition to Solitaire, Unwind powers other free-to-play card games for casual and educational use.

Entrepreneur
2019
Currently advising, investing, and researching new ideas. Future of food investments: - Impossible Foods - Clover Food Labs - Parm - Roasting Plant Future of work investments: - BeamJobs - Vemo Education - Fullstack Academy (acquired 3/2019) ..and others.

Co-founder, Writing Productivity Tools
2016 - 2019
Continuing to expand our great citation and writing tools to help improve student outcomes.

Co-Founder
2001 - 2019
Imagine Easy Solutions is a company aiming to improve students' research, writing, and critical thinking skills through a variety of products. Imagine Easy Solutions, LLC owns three properties: EasyBib: the largest online citation manager, used by over 49 million students a year. (www.easybib.com) ResearchReady: A customizable curriculum focused on teaching research skills to high school and college students. (www.researchready.com) Study Break Media: A educational publisher-focused advertising optimization firm, representing billions of pageviews a year. (www.studybreakmedia.com) Combined, our products reach over 100 million unique visitors per year; our flagship product, EasyBib, reaches 49 million students on its own. IES was listed as one of Inc Magazine’s fastest growing private companies in 2013 and 2014. In 2014, I was chosen as a Tech Stars ed-tech mentor. ImagineEasy was acquired by Chegg in 2016 and I joined as a VP of Product at Chegg.

Co-founder
2007 - 2008
Drop.io is a simple, private file-sharing service, used by everyone from graphics designers to marketers. It was acquired in 2010 by Facebook.

Associate Consultant
2005 - 2007
At Bain I worked as an associate consultant on a wide variety of casework, ranging from private equity diligence to tech, telecom, and media.