Paul Finney

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States10 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-founded a creative studio for startups.
  • Helped 80+ startups raise over $800M.
  • Expert in design and storytelling for ventures.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a creative entrepreneur specializing in startup growth and design.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipDesign Thinking

Other Skills

Community DevelopmentGrowth HackingLeadershipMarketingProduct ManagementProject ManagementStrategic Planning

About

I’m Paul, Co-founder of Spacekayak, a creative studio built for ambitious early-stage ventures. Over the past four years, we’ve partnered with 80+ startups, shaping their products, brands, and stories. Together, these companies have raised more than $800M in venture funding. Before Spacekayak, I spent over a decade in the heart of the startup world, building, advising, and investing. Along the way, I’ve had two exits and continue to back founders as an operator angel. My background in film, design, and creative direction keeps me close to craft, while helping founders bring clarity and taste to bold ideas. At Spacekayak, we’re building a world-class creative team for early-stage ventures, one that moves fast, thinks deeply, and makes work that lasts. Always open to connecting with founders, creatives, and investors who believe in the power of great design and storytelling.

Experience

Spacekayak

Founder & Creative Director at Spacekayak Creative Studio

May 2021Present · 4 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Spacekayak is a creative team for early stage companies.
  • We help with research, creating brands and narratives, curating seamless on and off-chain experiences, and crafting world-class products. We also help early-stage teams build scalable design practices.
  • We are one of the most trusted design teams in tech.
  • If you are an early-stage founder looking for a creative team to jam or build something beautiful, hit us up!
Project ManagementLeadershipEntrepreneurshipMarketingStrategic PlanningDesign Thinking+3

Draper startup house

EIR

Oct 2020Mar 2021 · 5 mos

  • Previously knows as Tribe Theory/Construkt. Now Draper Startup House.
  • As the latest addition to the Draper Network, Draper Startup House is a global chain of hostels targeted at young startups and entrepreneurs. We aim to provide affordable yet soulful hostel accommodation in the heart of every major city in the world. It is a space to explore and engage with like-minded people who are on the same entrepreneurial journey. Our mission is to enable ONE MILLION entrepreneurs worldwide by 2030.
  • With current locations in Singapore, Bangalore, Estonia, Yangon, Manila, Lisbon, and Bali, Draper Startup House plans on expanding to every major city of the world. Come join us in building a new category in hospitality.
  • We exist to CONNECT, INSPIRE, and EMPOWER the world's entrepreneurs.

Cogknit semantics pvt. ltd.

Founder office

Aug 2020Aug 2022 · 2 yrs · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Powered by cutting-edge scientific research for more than ten years, we are proud to be India's pioneering AI product lab, augmenting human potential.
  • We are pushing frontiers in human-machine interaction with our AI agents and products in speech, vision, linguistic and wearable technology.
  • www.cogknit.com

Eder ai

Ex-Founder, CEO (Exited)

Jun 2018Jan 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • We are a deep learning research lab primarily focusing on building novel approaches for privacy-aware machine learning.
  • Our latest work in progress is 'Fluid' protocol that enables deep learning inside trusted executed environment. We are a passionate bunch of young makers working on core AI engineering to make AI more accessible, affordable, scalable and secure.
  • We are bootstrapped and revenue positive. We have an AI framework-as-a-service used by a Fortune 50 client. Our team is advised and supported by leadership from Go-Jek, Intel, Target, along with veteran serial tech entrepreneurs.

Engineer.ai - together we can

Product Manager

Oct 2017Jun 2018 · 8 mos

  • Engineer.ai: Call it EaaS (Engineer-as-a-Service) or everyone's personal engineering team, with a patent pending platform, Engineer.ai addresses an engineering outsourcing market that is broken, ad-hoc and expensive by leveraging AI to offer the industries first platform driven outsourcing solution. Designed to help the 'dreamers', early stage startups/tech founders as well as established organizations looking to supplement their existing dev projects, Engineer.ai promises transparency, faster development with AI writing up to 60% of code and efficiency in delivering projects.
  • Cloudops.ai: Centralizing your cloud automation, monitoring & financial control as well as deployment migration, Cloudops.ai is addressing the number one question that keeps most CTO's up at night; how on earth do I gain greater visibility and control into my growing cloud spend? With partnerships with AWS and Azure as well as the industries first 'Pre-paid Cloud Wallet', Cloudops.ai ensures that you will NEVER overspend on cloud computing.

Paralleldots

Product Manager

Feb 2017Oct 2017 · 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • We are a team of young & passionate technologist who believe in power of Artificial Intelligence to build next generation of smart analytics software. We eat, breathe and live on building the bleeding edge AI algorithms and deploying them at scale.
  • At Paralleldots, we provide solutions to build the smartest search engines and apps which can deeply understand world’s conversations, sentiments, reports and news so you can align your business with customer preferences and intent.

Icecream labs

Product Manager

Jul 2016Dec 2016 · 5 mos

  • Ice Cream Labs provides AI SaaS solutions for enterprise, retail & distribution customers. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, San Francisco & has offices in Bangalore. The company’s core solution enables Smart Merchandising, Sales and operations management using Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing.
  • Our product provides the retailer, distributors, and suppliers a simple and intuitive way to automate and optimize Merchandising and sales for eCommerce catalog including product categorization, attribute extraction, enhancing product content, associating product reviews & rating and embedding product videos. , All of these are provide as SaaS services and are built on proprietary Machine Learning, NLP, and computer vision algorithms, thus ensuring right visibility and solving the problems of content creation and category scaling for the eCommerce platform.
  • Using our AI platform, our customers can scale product offerings by 20x in weeks increasing revenue opportunities with limited cost impact.

Campus diaries

Product Marketing Manager

Jun 2015May 2016 · 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Campus Diaries is one of Asia's largest self-expression, talent discovery and collaboration platform — home to the best young and creative talent, powering their potential and their future. We're a startup, currently based in Bangalore, started nearly more than 2 years ago.
  • The website has nearly 300k users on the platform, with half a million page views every month. Our presence is spread over 1000 schools and universities. Our social media reach is over 1.5 million, with a distribution over 5 countries.
  • My role in Campus Diaries: Brand Development, Website Traffic Growth, User Acquisition, Develop Brand Strategy, Sales Strategy Development, Growth Hacking, Brand Positioning, Data Analytic, Project Curation, Campaign Management.

Tedxbangalore

Marketing and Communication Lead

May 2014Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Bangalore is a melting pot of ideas, cultures, skills and talent.
  • TEDxBangalore is the platform that showcases Bangalore's very best to the world!
  • In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.
  • Our event is called TEDxBangalore where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxBangalore event, TED Talks, videos and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
  • Roles: Project planning, Project Management, Recruiting and HR solutions for the Program, Communication Interfacing, Organizing and Facilitating the Event, Content Management, Distribution and Networking.

Aiesec

2 roles

Manager Brand Experience

Jan 2013Jan 2014 · 1 yr

  • Present in over 125 countries and territories and with over 100,000 members, AIESEC is the world's largest youth-led organization.
  • Focused on providing a platform for youth leadership development, AIESEC offers young people the opportunity to be global citizens, to change the world, and to get experience and skills that matter today.
  • Content Curation, Digital Marketing, Tracking and Converting Lead.
  • Extended Job Roles: Designing social media campaigns, Business Intelligence with the Communication and Information management wing.

Exchange Coordinator

Jan 2013Jul 2013 · 6 mos

  • Present in over 125 countries and territories and with over 100,000 members, AIESEC is the world's largest youth-led organization.
  • Focused on providing a platform for youth leadership development, AIESEC offers young people the opportunity to be global citizens, to change the world, and to get experience and skills that matter today.
  • Position: Exchange Co-coordinator, Corporate Sector.
  • Key roles: Market Research, Sales, Sales Strategy, Intern Management, International Relations, Communication.

Campus diaries

Business Development Intern

Jan 2013Apr 2013 · 3 mos · Chandigarh

  • Campus Diaries is one of Asia's largest self-expression, talent discovery and collaboration platform — home to the best young and creative talent, powering their potential and their future. We're a startup, currently based in Bangalore, started nearly more than 2 years ago.
  • The website has nearly 300k users on the platform, with half a million page views every month. Our presence is spread over 1000 schools and universities. Our social media reach is over 1.5 million, with a distribution over 5 countries.

Education

Chandigarh Engineering College

Bachelor's Degree — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 2011Jan 2015

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