Hari Raghavan

Co-Founder & CEO

2023 - Current

Building a People Intelligence Platform to give HR teams & organizational leaders analytical superpowers.

Co-Founder & Chairman

2023

Co-Founder & CEO

2019 - 2023

General Partner

2021

https://autopilot.fund Our investments include AngelList, Caplight, Copilot Money, Form Kitchens, Meow.co, Neo.Tax, Pulley, Puzzle.io, Sacra, Wispr.ai and many more.

Advisor

2020 - 2022

Advisor

2020 - 2022

Fellow - ODF1 & ODS1

2019 - 2021

Member

2019 - 2020

Angel Investor

2015 - 2020

- Investor in 100+ companies, both at Seed-Series A (Notion, Mercury, Rippling, On Deck) and late-stage / secondary (Slack, Spotify, Robinhood, Cohesity, Looker, Rubrik) - LP at a few early-stage VC firms (SignalFire, Ravikant Capital, Uncorrelated, Footwork, Base10, South Park Commons, 8-Bit, Todd/Rahul Fund) Related: While I'm not professionally active in the secondary market, I love helping and advising folks on all things startup equity.

Advisor

2018 - 2019

COO

2017 - 2018

Employee #1 and COO. Spearheaded much of Equidate's business during a period of hypergrowth: - oversaw nearly $1B in transactions - 100+xed (~4x YoY) metrics for 3+ years - managed the P&L to robust profitability - efforts culimated in a Series B / ~$200M+ valuation in 2018 (~20x from when I joined) * Led Business Operations functions -- business/market strategy; corporate development and strategic partnerships; FP&A and strategic planning, thought leadership, content & analysis. * Led or co-led Revenue functions: deal structuring and execution; (financial) product development and branding; client relationship management; business development. * Influenced Product functions: design and implementation of internal tools; developing and launching public-facing content, data, and discovery tools. * Co-led or influenced Corporate functions: hiring; HR and compensation policies; branding; compliance; risk management; vendor relationships; contract negotiation; and PR.

Hobo (… Head of Biz Ops)

2016 - 2017

VP Operations

2015 - 2016

Consultant

2012 - 2014

19 Growth and operations strategy projects in industrial goods, aerospace, consumer goods, and banking. Advised clients on market expansion, capital/resource allocation, improving sales performance, streamlining costs, and M&A (/post-merger) activities. Investigated effect of increasing automation on re-shoring industrial manufacturing to the US, under BCG's Made in America project. Cited in the President's State of the Union Address, and instrumental in redirecting client investment to US manufacturing in subsequent projects. Core member of recruiting team: interviewed 100+ candidates for full-time and summer, attended 50+ events across 7 schools, and led Chicago recruiting efforts at Stanford. Core member of Excel Cadre: conducted training sessions for 200+ Consultants/Associates in their early years at BCG.

Associate

2010 - 2012

Frontline Crew Member

2006 - 2006

Learned how to make delicious smoothies, a skill that is useful to this day. Strawberry Nirvana was my favorite.