Avi Natesan — CEO
At 17 years old, I found a market gap. Children and Teens love slime toys but the Indian market lacks good quality, non-toxic slimes that don't expire in 2 days. My journey began there. I built The Slime Space, India’s First and largest D2C stress-relief slime brand. I spent five months iterating on a slime formulation that was non-toxic, high quality, scented with a long shelf life to achieve product-market fit tailored to Indian consumers. I worked on what their experience would be like, then scaled the business end-to-end from ideation to execution. The result: 100K+ units sold, ~$500K in revenue, partnerships with Duolingo and Nestlé, #1 Google ranking in the slime/stress toy category, and expansion across major online marketplaces such as Amazon India. That grounded me in core product principles: deep customer understanding, rapid experimentation, community-driven engagement, and building under real operational constraints. I applied that same builder mindset to AI product management. Here in Los Angeles, At Opal AI (NASA- and DOT-LA–backed), I’ve helped design and launch multimodal AI products across wildfire prediction, insurance automation, and city safety, partnering closely with engineers, researchers, and domain experts to translate complex systems into usable, high-impact products. I thrive in ambiguous spaces where the problem isn't clearly defined yet, at the confluence of user behavior, design intuition, and technical constraints. I've worked on AI products where trust, accuracy, and workflow matter and on consumer products where retention, delight, and repeat usage tell the real story. I work fast and ship fast.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C Product Manager with a strong focus on AI and consumer goods.
Experience: 7 yrs 11 mos
Skills
- Product Management
- Ai Product Development
- Entrepreneurship
Career Highlights
- Founded India's first slime brand with 100K+ units sold.
- Led multimodal AI product design for NASA and DOT-LA.
- Achieved $500K revenue with strong partnerships.
Work Experience
University of Southern California
Graduate Teaching Assistant: Strategic Leadership in Product Management @ USC Marshall (4 mos)
Graduate Teaching Assistant: New Product Development & Decision Making using Marketing Analytics (4 mos)
Technology Operations Manager @ USC Annenberg (6 mos)
TIE Hub - USC Viterbi
Product and GTM Strategy (4 mos)
Project: Research Analyst (2 mos)
OpalAi
AI Product and Strategy Intern (2 mos)
IIT Madras Research Park (IITMRP)
Product Management & Data Science Intern at Okarango Data Technologies (2 mos)
The Slime Space
Founder and CEO (6 yrs 11 mos)
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Tactile Books for the Visually Impaired (3 mos)
Education
Master's degree at University of Southern California
Graduate Certificate in Product Management at USC Marshall School of Business
Bachelor of Engineering - BE at SSN College of Engineering
ISC- Science & Economics at Sishya School
