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KRISHNA MEHRA

9 portfolio companies indexed

Seasoned technology entrepreneur, product and engineering leader with a track record of building, scaling and mentoring category defining product companies. Led cross-functional engineering, product, design and go-to-market teams for building and scaling products targeting consumers and businesses. Products that excite me love to delight customers with a focus on adoption and activation metrics.- Started and exited two companies “ in Enterprise SaaS, AI, Business Analytics and B2C Marketplaces and Subscription Commerce space which raised over $100MM in venture capital from Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, AmEx, Qualcomm and Warburg Pincus. Created ~$750MM in enterprise value through my own and investee companies- Built and directly managed engineering, product and design team of over 100 people. Launched new products, markets and strategic business partnerships with Fortune 100 companies. Co-authored 10 US Patents- Invited speaker at Harvard Business School, The Wharton School and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Mentor at 500 Startups and Alchemist Accelerator. Awarded the Young Alumni Achiever Award by Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2018Specialties (sorted alphabetically): AI, algorithms, analytics, apache spark, APIs, apps, architecture, big data, corporate strategy, CRM, data analytics, data engineering, digital media, distributed systems, distributed teams, distributed workforces, engineering leadership, engineering management, entrepreneurship, finance, food, full-stack, hadoop, hbase, hiring, k8s, Kubernetes, m&a due diligence, machine learning, marketplaces, microservices, mobile, mobile apps, OKRs, payments, performance management, recruitment, remote engineering, remote work, retention, SaaS metrics, subscription management, system design, technology, user experience design, web development, web/mobile/tablet user interface