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Ajay Relan
Ajay Relan is an investor, entrepreneur, and community builder. He is a managing partner at Slauson & Co. Previously, he was a founding partner at Queensbridge Venture Partners. With a keen focus on brand building and storytelling, Ajay's passion lies in identifying trends and engineering culturally aligned brands.
A lifelong Angeleno, Ajay has established a business portfolio grounded in community. He is the co-creator of GVO Hospitality, a Los Angeles based restaurant group that counts mission-driven Hilltop Coffee + Kitchen as one of its brands. Hilltop has become a creative hub, facilitating productivity and collaboration in diverse communities across Los Angeles.
In 2012, Ajay founded #HashtagLunchbag, a grassroots movement that has fed 1,000,000+ hungry and unhoused people in 150+ cities around the globe. He went on to establish the Living Through Giving Foundation, a nonprofit platform empowering the creation of programs engaging diverse groups of people to contribute to various causes in their local communities.
Ajay is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara and serves on the board of the Omega Institute.
A lifelong Angeleno, Ajay has established a business portfolio grounded in community. He is the co-creator of GVO Hospitality, a Los Angeles based restaurant group that counts mission-driven Hilltop Coffee + Kitchen as one of its brands. Hilltop has become a creative hub, facilitating productivity and collaboration in diverse communities across Los Angeles.
In 2012, Ajay founded #HashtagLunchbag, a grassroots movement that has fed 1,000,000+ hungry and unhoused people in 150+ cities around the globe. He went on to establish the Living Through Giving Foundation, a nonprofit platform empowering the creation of programs engaging diverse groups of people to contribute to various causes in their local communities.
Ajay is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara and serves on the board of the Omega Institute.