May 2017 – Jan 2025 · 7 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Airbase (now Paylocity for Finance) is a leading procure-to-pay solution to combine enterprise-grade power with a delightful user experience. It radically simplifies purchasing in organizations by offering multiple products in a single platform for Procurement, AP Automation, Expense Management and Corporate Cards.
• Airbase was acquired by Paylocity (NASDAQ: PCTY) in October 2024 in a deal valued at ~$400M.

Apr 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Early-stage investor in 60+ startups and LP in multiple venture capital funds.
• Startup investments include:
• Sardine - AI risk platform
• Rillet - AI-native ERP
• Span - AI-native developer intelligence platform
• Savant Labs - Business analytics automation
• Cacheflow (acquired by HubSpot) - SaaS deal-closing platform
• Relay Financial - SMB-focused neobank
• Marvin - AI-native user research
• Stedi - Healthcare clearinghouse infrastructure
• Plum - Employee benefits platform in India
• Mendel - Spend management in LatAm
• TeamOhana - Headcount management and workforce planning
• Cache Financials - Brokerage for large stock positions
• BrewBird - Specialty coffee systems for the workplace
• Puzzle - AI-powered accounting and real-time financial insights
• Aleph - AI-native FP&A
• Adaptive - AI Bookkeeping Platform for Construction
• Baselayer - Business Identity Verification
• LP in venture funds including:
• Y Combinator
• Menlo Ventures
• First Round Capital
• Convective Capital
• Kearny Jackson
• Garuda Ventures
• Intudo Ventures

Oct 2010 – Aug 2016 · 5 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Automatic built hardware and software to make every car an internet connected car. Our consumer product was sold at major retailers like Apple Store, Best Buy, Amazon and Target. Our enterprise product had many of the top 10 auto insurance companies in the US as customers.
• Automatic was acquired by SiriusXM (NASDAQ: SIRI) for $115M to support their connected car offerings to auto-makers.

Aug 2009 – Jan 2016 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Berkeley, CA

• NextDrop was my Masters thesis project at UC Berkeley. It's a social enterprise that provides residents in urban India with access to accurate, timely information on the availability of piped water through SMS and interactive voice response technology, and enables water utilities to track the status of their distribution system in real time.
• NextDrop was recognized with a number of awards and funding:
• Winner of Knight News Challenge 2011 ($400K award)
• Winner of Global Social Venture Competition 2011 (http://gsvc.org)
• Winner of GSM Association mWomen Program BOP challenge
• Grant from Clinton Global Initiative
• Winner of Big Ideas @ UC Berkeley 2010

Mar 2006 – Jul 2009 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore, India

• I was a lead developer and manager of a number of critical components of a mobile services platform (MyToday) serving around 14 million users (4 million consumer and 10 million enterprise users) as of July, 2009. This was the largest platform of its kind in India at the time.
• I demonstrated the opportunity in the consumer business by building early versions in my own time. This line of business eventually contributed to more than 50% of revenues by the time I left and helped us gain recognition at the GSMA 2008 Mobile Innovation Global Awards

Jul 2004 – Mar 2006 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Software Engineer at the Nortel Offshore Development Centre. Was a team leader in the GSM team.