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I am helping build Crescendo AI (Founder) an AI-first contact center business and Celesta Capital (Managing Partner), an early-stage deep tech fund with $1.2B in AUM. Formerly as Partner @ General Catalyst, I helped establish the India-US practice with my partners and invested in Loop Health, Eeki, Orange Health, FarMart, Jeh Aerospace etc. Before that, I was CPO/product leader with the overarching mission of democratizing technology platforms - at Five9 we grew from $120m to over $600m bringing CX to cloud and multiple channels through Covid, at Meta (Messenger Platform) we established and grew people to business use cases globally for an app with > 1 billion monthly users, Bharti Airtel we transitioned to a data-first network for over 300m subscribers, Snapdeal / FreeCharge was a roller coaster experience bringing eCommerce to first time consumers and integrating payments etc. I enjoy partnering with commercially minded & product obsessive builders. Was an early investor in over 80+ companies since 2015 of which 7 are valued > $1 billion including Deel, OneCard, Carta, NoBroker, PIPE, DealShare etc. Named #1 seed investor focused on 🇮🇳/🇺🇸 corridor by HURUN India Report 3 years in a row (2022-24) with 20 additional breakouts including InVideo, Monarch Money, Exotel, MoEngage, Acceldata etc. Learned a lot co-founding/building Aeroprise fresh out of Stanford from 2001 to 2009 until acquisition by BMC Software. I hold an M.S. in Electrical Engg. from Stanford University, and a B.S. from PSG College of Technology, India. Part of the Young Global Leader community @ the World Economic Forum, Fortune's 40 under 40 etc.