Himanshu Bari
Founder of InstinctIQ Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2023 - Current
https://instinctiq.ai/ Industry’s first project schedule intelligence and risk management platform built from the ground up using GenerativeAI
Advisor & Mentor
2023
Berkeley Skydeck is a Forbes top-5 US university accelerator and part of UC Berkeley Advising young and upcoming startups and founders on Pricing, SaaS metrics, GTM, Product Management, Leadership & Culture development
SkyDeck Berkeley is a research university accelerator that serves as an apex startup launchpad for affiliated entrepreneurs.
Investor
2018
Berkeley Angel Network is a venture capital and private equity firm that specializes in the fields of finance and investment management.
Vice President Of Product Management
2020 - 2023
Backed by a $114M investment from Softbank, Microsoft & PayPal, ArkoseLabs is a leading bot management vendor on a mission to bankrupt attackers and wipe out Google reCaptcha from the internet. I built & ran the product management, puzzle development, docs & UX design teams at Arkose. Grew the team from 3 to 12+, launched several new products and capabilities resulting in a 4X growth in revenue over 3 years. Combining Email, device, network, user identity & behavior biometrics based risk decisioning with an innovative challenge (Arkose Enforce) the Arkose platform defeats persistent bot attacks and coordinated human-driven attacks on the most targeted user interaction points on web/mobile/TVs/gaming consoles
Head of Product Management
2020 - 2021
Sr. Director of Product Management
2020 - 2020
Arkose Labs protects enterprises from cybercrime and abuse.
Raised $106,467,749.00 from PayPal Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital and Ballistic Ventures.
Advisor
2019 - 2021
Prophecy is a self-service data transformation platform for the enterprise
Raised $112,249,983.00 from JP Morgan, Dallas Venture Capital, Insight Partners, SignalFire, Databricks Ventures and Singtel Innov8.
Sr. Director Product Management
2018 - 2020
Market leader in Sales enablement & Revenue Ops raised over $250M from NVP, Softbank, Canaan & Qualcomm - Partnered with the founders as a hands-on leader of the product and data analyst teams - Scaled the product team, processes & led the GTM efforts as we quadrupled our revenue over a short two-year span by successfully dominating both the SMB and the large enterprise customer segment - Catalyzed the pre-sales process throughout the lifecycle of the deal - from RFP to securing technical wins & engaging in strategic roadmap conversations with customer executives to get their buy-in - Served as an evangelist to establish thought leadership with analysts and maintain strong relationships with key customers & partners with activities like briefings, webinars and contributed articles
MindTickle is a software company that offers sales readiness and enablement tools for businesses.
Raised $281,300,000.00 from Qualcomm Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners, NewView Capital and SoftBank Vision Fund.
Director Product Management
2015 - 2018
Led the product team responsible for all of ThreatMetrix® data/ML/Integration products to a successful exit and acquisition by LexisNexis Risk Solutions ThreatMetrix is the market-leading cloud solution for authenticating digital personas and transactions on the Internet. Verifying more than 20 billion annual transactions supporting 30,000 websites and 4,500 customers globally - Launched the ThreatMetrix digital identity graph that leverages real-time link analysis to power transaction monitoring and case management addressing use cases in AML & fraud during onboarding, authentication & payments - Launched an identity verification API marketplace that allows customers to augment ThreatMetrix real-time transaction monitoring engine with pre-built connectors to 3rd party vendors by negotiating OEM licensing and data acquisition deals with several vendors like Idology, Danal, Telesign, Socure, Emailage etc. - Launched the ThreatMetrix Smart Learning capability that allows customers to automate fraud policy creation using supervised machine learning algorithms - Launched a Cloudera Impala based data discovery and visualization offering for fraud data analysis by OEM-ing Arcadia Data(In Hadoop BI) in the ThreatMetrix SaaS application
LexisNexis Risk Solutions provides information to assist customers in industry and government in assessing, predicting, and managing risk.
Director Product Management
2014 - 2015
Leader in Hadoop native real-time streaming processing & analytics. Headed product and drove all aspects of DataTorrent's (Apache Apex) product strategy, roadmap, positioning & pricing - Launched new applications for Hadoop data ingestion & distribution, data preparation/transformation & analytics - Launched two strategic product additions to our portfolio – a drag-n-drop unified stream and batch ETL pipeline builder & a real-time data visualization & analytics dashboard - Added new data connectors to enable IoT & big data solution architectures
Sr. Product Manager
2013 - 2014
As the #3 product hire at Hortonworks, I drove the product strategy, roadmap & execution for bringing several open source projects in the Hadoop ecosystem to market as enterprise-ready products of the Hortonworks Data Platform -Apache Storm - a real-time stream processing platform -OpenStack Sahara- Enabling Hadoop on public/private cloud platforms based on OpenStack -Apache Falcon- Data governance platform for Hadoop -Teradata/Aster products integration
Hortonworks is a business computer software company that focuses on the development and support of Apache Hadoop.
Raised $248,000,000.00 from TA Capital, Accel, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, Yahoo, Index Ventures, Passport Capital, Tenaya Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, BlackRock and Benchmark.
Sr. Product Manager
2011 - 2013
Web based Virtualization, Storage & Availability Management/Reporting Products
User Experience Engineering (Data Loss Prevention Products)
2009 - 2011
- Collaborated with UI designers to define user personas and wrote user stories. Facilitated creative rapid design labs and wrote usability test scripts to validate features like File risk scoring - Conducted customer research using focus groups to validate UI designs & identify usability gaps
Email Filtering Company
Raised $35,000,000.00 from TCV, Crosslink Capital, NortonLifeLock, Critical Path, Accel, Opportunity Capital Partners, Esther Dyson, Bill Joy and Thomas Weisel Partners.