Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

• Investing in audacious founders building in AI. Please reach out on kmehra-at-elevationcapital-dot-com

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Apr 2021 – Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States · On-site

• Support a portfolio of products in Meta's Monetization product group in the intersection of ads and messaging (WhatsApp, Instagram direct and Facebook messenger)
• Led teams contributing to $10B+/yr to Meta’s revenue building the next pillar of the business by doubling revenue from the product portfolio. Directed a X00+ person product development teams across Menlo Park, New York and APAC and work with an extensive cross-functional team setting strategic direction and ensuring solid execution.
• Built the foundation for our Generative AI Agent infrastructure and commerce offerings; including acquisition of merchant data at scale and business outcome innovations that underpin our GenAI knowledge graph, machine learning and advertising efforts to unlock a $3B+ incremental revenue stream
• Grew our API ecosystem through launches including Instagram messaging, marketing messages, ad signal collection, enterprise offerings and generative AI experiences which unlock an additional $3B+ in incremental revenue for Meta
• Launched small business tools used by hundreds of millions of businesses to connect, re-engage, and acquire customers within the consumer Messenger and Instagram mobile apps; driving over $7B in revenue
• Steered product-led growth engineering to grow the discovery and adoption of messaging through paid (ads) and organic means across both consumers and businesses leading to doubling Meta’s messaging ads revenue to $10B
• Supported several organizational initiatives across our product group around company-wide recruiting priorities

Jan 2019 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

• Cohesity is a unicorn cloud data management company that has raised over $660M from marquee VCs like Sequoia and Softbank and recently acquired Veritas Netbackup to build a $1.6Bn revenue company. I supported teams in two areas with geographically distributed teams across four locations.
• 1. Supported the main product line, contributing to $ XXX million in revenue around data protection for critical enterprise data sitting both on premise and on the cloud
• 2. Built out product-led growth engineering to support expansion into the new product line of Data-Management-as-a-Service announced at AWS re:Invent 2020. Act in a “General Manager” capacity to drive the new area from a cross-functional perspective

Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

• Acquired by EAT Club**
• Taro re-imagines homestyle food for busy families through a three-sided marketplace of chefs, drivers, and consumers taking advantage of brand new distribution platforms like on-demand delivery and D2C food shipping,
• Zero-to-One story where I built and supported a 50+ team that represented authenticity, high quality, convenience, and affordability and delivered over one million meals in eight states on the West Coast. - The company raised over $2.75MM in seed financing from Eileses Capital and Rajan Anandan (Google). Built a successful subscription commerce service with over $5MM in revenue run-rate.
• Drove consumer and driver mobile experience (iOS and Android), platform architecture, data engineering, and personalization engine to achieve industry-leading CAC/LTV numbers
• Successfully navigated the company through fundraising and strategic partnership discussions culminating in acquisition by EAT Club, Inc.

Jun 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 11 mos

Jun 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 11 mos

Jun 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 11 mos

Jan 2014 – Dec 2024 · 10 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Supported some exceptional founders as an investor, mentor, and advisor. Companies have gone on to create $5Bn in enterprise value. List of Companies:
• InnovAccer - AI for Healthcare, valued at $3.5B, Co-investors: Lightspeed, Mubadala, Tiger Global, Kaiser Permanente, WestBridge, B Capital, M12
• MoEngage - Customer Engagement. Soonicorn. Co-investors: Helion, B Capital, Multiples, Eight Roads, Z47, Goldman Sachs, Steadview
• AppZen - AI for finance. Soonicorn. Co-investors: Coatue, Lightspeed, Redpoint, Arif Janmohamed
• HeadOut - Travel marketplace. Soonicorn. Co-investors: Glade Brook, Version One, Nexus, FJ Labs, Haystack
• Tynker - Coding for kids. Acquired by Byju's. Co-investors: Felicis, Relay, New Ground, Reach Capital, Cervin, NEA
• Yotascale - Cost management for cloud. Co-investors: Felicis, Engineering Capital, Pelion, Crosslink
• Dataweave - Data for merchandising. Co-investors: Blume Ventures, Times Internet
• mCaffeine / PEP Salons - Skincare DTC. Co-investors: Paragon, Amicus, RPSG Capital, Sharrp, Matrix, DSP Mutual Fund
• HashLearn - Learning platform. Acquired by Byju's. Co-investors: Singapore Angels, Binny Bansal, Rajan Anandan
• AppVirality/Outplay - AI Sales Agent. Co-investors: Sequoia India (Peak XV), India Internet Fund, Kunal Shah, Vijay Rayapati
• MyAlly - AI for HR. Acquired by Phenom People. Co-investors: Storm Ventures, Eileses, Firebolt, Gokul Rajaram
• Elucidata - AI data for pharma. Co-investors: Eight Roads, F-Prime, IvyCap, Hyperplane
• Dashworks.ai - Enterprise search using AI. Co-investors: Point72, South Park Commons, Emmett Shear
• All-In Capital - LP in early stage VC fund focused on India
• Z21 Ventures - LP in early stage VC Fund focused on US-India corridor
• Phyllo - API for creator economy. Co-investors: Nexus, RTP Global, iSeed, Better Capital
• Privado - Shift left on privacy
• Scalenut - SEO AI Copilot
• Dyte - API for Video Calls
• Facets.cloud - DevOps Infra
• Spyne.ai - AI for Merchandising
• Salesmonk - AI Salesperson
• Aurva
• Crux
• Redblock.ai

Jan 2008 – Jan 2015 · 7 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Capillary went public on BSE and NSE in Nov '25**
• Capillary’s technology solutions help omnichannel retailers drive insights from customer data to drive customer engagement, acquisition, retention, and loyalty including real-time AI-driven point of sale interventions. Customers include Pizza Hut, VF Brands, Walmart, KFC, Starbucks, and Samsung
• Established a 120+ member engineering, product, QA, and design organization to build one of Asia’s pre-eminent SaaS companies in the retail customer engagement space and its growth to 300 million consumers, 300 marquee brands across 25,000 points of sale in 20+ countries
• Drove Capillary’s hiring practices, talent management and organizational processes; built technology leadership from the ground up. Was the voice of the technology organization in Board meetings
• Raised over $100MM in venture capital from Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Qualcomm Ventures, Warburg Pincus, and American Express Ventures. Led M&A due-diligence for Capillary’s acquisition of MartJack, one of Asia’s leading online commerce platforms

Jul 2006 – Jul 2008 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Academic style research culminating in 5 research papers and 6 patents in the following area of programming languages and how to make software more resilient:
• Verification of Object Relational Maps
• A programming abstraction for the collaborative internet
• Abstract Interpretation and its use in finding bounds on temporal constraints and resource usage
• Statistical debugging with profiling
• Search techniques for artifacts of programming and debugging

Aug 2005 – May 2006 · 9 mos

• Founding team member for a Series A funded startup (NEA-IndoUS ventures) focusing on information overload and personalized news consumption.

May 2005 – Jul 2005 · 2 mos

• Journal publication resulting from my work on combining traditional Nelson-Oppen style theorem proving with SAT Solver based Model Generation