Jun 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 9 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

• As Founder & General Partner at Twin Ventures, I back exceptional founders building category-defining companies at the intersection of AI, software, and frontier tech.
• 📌 Recent Portfolio Highlights:
• Observe.AI – Voice AI for call centers
• Sanas – Real-time voice/accent translation
• Sibros – Connected vehicle data
• Ixana – AI chip for AR headsets
• Flam – AI-powered 3D content
• Matic – Smart-home robotics by ex-Google founders
• Zeni – AI finance team for SMBs
• SecurityPal – Auto-completed security questionnaires
• Daloopa – AI-generated financial models
• Newport Robotics – Autonomous trucking retrofit kits
• Credibl – Sustainability & compliance platform
• A79 – No-code AI agent builder
• Zamp – Sales tax automation
• FirstHive – First-party customer data platform
• Clazar – Cloud marketplace automation
• Sesame Labs – AI-native ad platform
• Hirefly – AI hiring assistant
• CreatorDAO – Creator investment backed by a16z
• ODDR – Invoice-to-cash automation
• Alpen Labs – Stablecoin lending protocol
• Loop – Shopify subscription tools
• Hammoq – Automation for eComm resellers
• Zuma – AI leasing assistant
• Avoma – AI meeting assistant
• Beans.AI – Last 100m delivery infrastructure
• Verisim Life – Simulated clinical trials
• Meemo – Social finance app (acq. by Coinbase)
• XOR – Conversational AI for recruiting
• Chime – Smart chai brewing (IoT)
• DataSine – AI content personalization (acq. by Shutterstock)
• Shoptimze – Commerce optimization (acq. by Graas)
• Pawsh – Personalized pet grooming
• GenePath – Molecular diagnostics platform
• Co-investors include a16z, Insight Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, Saama Capital, and The General Partnership.

Jan 2018 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• Amex acquired Mezi for $125M in Jan 2018. Took the Mezi mission forward post-acquisition. Focused on integrating Mezi within the flagship Amex mobile app and scaling the Mezi platform to 10 million users across 8 countries and grew the organization to 100+ employees.

Jun 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• Co-owns and drives the overall vision and business strategy in addition to leading the overall Product and Technology efforts.
• Mezi is revolutionizing travel by giving you an AI assistant for all your travel needs. Just say where you want to go and Mezi helps you make it happen -- from booking your flight and hotel, to figuring out what to do, to handling your online check-in or changes of plans, to being your on-the-ground guide when you arrive. All through a simple messaging app.
• Artificial intelligence is on the bleeding edge of technology, and we believe that the world has yet to be shown how it fits into their lives. Mezi aims to invent what that means for the everyday person. We envision a world where anyone can travel with the ease and confidence knowing they have an assistant in their pocket wherever they go.

May 2015 – Nov 2015 · 6 mos

• Advice on International / Emerging Markets Business & Product Strategy

Mar 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Responsible for running Rdio across India and Emerging markets
• Overseeing P&L, Business Development, Sales and Marketing

Feb 2013 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr · Sunnyvale, CA

Feb 2011 – Feb 2013 · 2 yrs · Sunnyvale, CA

Feb 2009 – Feb 2011 · 2 yrs

• Lead the Product Management for Social Sharing Initiatives across all key Yahoo! Media properties like News, Movies, Finance and Sports. Also lead the company’s Open APIs initiative for getting media properties on Mobile.
• Lead Y! Media Social Sharing widget/platform integration on all Y! Media properties (Finance, News, TV, Movies, Music, OMG - having 5-6 billion widget views per month)
• Enabling easy sharing across Facebook and Twitter, tracking clicks & shares, providing real time analytics. Provide a single version for social sharing and social analytics
• Localization of the products across 12 languages
• Talking to different y! media properties, convincing them to use our product and stick to one standard
• Lead Y! Open APIs for Mobile and Web: coming up with open API standards, market research on how other major players are doing it (NYTimes, Flickr, Google etc). Meeting with leads from major Y! Media properties, getting them to use the standards & pushing for the right way of building open APIs across all properties. These Open APIs are now used by Y! Mobile, Y! Tech and Y! Apps on iPhone and iPad
• Lead Y! Media Read Me Later product: market research on already existing players in this domain, build a case to chose the right option: build our own or acquire an existing player

Sep 2006 – Aug 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• Worked as a Technical Yahoo! / Software Engineer in Yahoo! News, Media Engineering department.
• Built highly scalable, reliable software for dynamic news websites and backend servers
• Lead a new initiative ‘People of the Web’ that was part of Yahoo News! Sites. Oversaw the backend design and development and made sure all goals were reached and tracked properly.
• Implemented highly scalable Memory and File based Caching technologies for fast information retrieval using PHP/C++ and Design Patterns
• Designed and Developed different backend modules and web services using XML, Design Patterns, PHP, Apache and MySQL.
• Designed normalized Database Schemas for highly scalable backend servers, replicating these databases using MySQL replications on FreeBSD Servers
• Developed and refined the middle tire business logic for Yahoo News Servers using PHP, XML, Web Services and MySQL
• Generalized the Most Popular (Most Emailed and Most Recommended) modules so that they can be used across Yahoo Media Engineering groups

Aug 2004 – Aug 2006 · 2 yrs

May 2003 – Aug 2004 · 1 yr 3 mos

Jul 2000 – Jun 2002 · 1 yr 11 mos