Himanshu Sahay
Founder of Arch
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CTO
2022 - Current
The easiest and most secure way to borrow against your crypto.
Arch is a financial technology company that offers credit to alternative asset owners.
Raised $77,750,000.00 from Morgan Creek Digital, BitGo, Alumni Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Castle Island Ventures, Material V, Edward Lando, Four Acres Capital and Predictive.
Angel Investor
2021
Investor in early and growth stage companies, and venture funds. Rolling fund investments (Uncommon Ventures) - AlloyX (Pre-seed) - Taco Labs (Pre-seed) Syndicate investments - Souq (Seed, led syndicate) LP: - HodlCo (investment fund/holding company) - Magic Fund Angel Investments - Sanas (Seed) - Mural (Seed) - Finesse (pre-Series A) - Humans Anonymous (Pre-seed) - Drip Capital (Series C) - Stripe (secondary) - Coinlist (Series B) - Cover Insurance (Series B) - Mighty Health (YC S19) (Seed extension) - NFT Guru (Seed) - Mythia (YC W21) (Seed) (returned capital) - Cakeshop (Pre-seed) - Jelly (Pre-seed) - Edge (YC W23) (Pre-seed)
Venture Scout
2021
Venture Partner
2021
Software Engineer
2020 - 2022
• Created the new AdKit Android SDK (launched Dec 2020), bringing Snap ads to third party mobile apps via the Snap Audience Network. Partnered with Mopub, Unity, AppLovin and others • Created App Ads Kit for Android (first party ad attribution, launched Mar 2021) • iOS engineer on the new Story Studio app (launched Dec 2021) • Moderated DroidCon Americas 2020 Snap Panel
Snap is a technology company that offers the products Snapchat, Spectacles, and Bitmoji.
Raised $5,553,527,880.00 from Alwaleed Bin Talal and Tencent.
Software Engineer
2018 - 2020
• Built the Bird service center app from the ground up to track, repair and maintain its massive fleet of last mile vehicles (we went to this from tracking on spreadsheets) • The workflows in this app cut down $Xmillion in repair/labor costs Learnt a ton about Android architecture, complex RxJava and how to (and how not to) build software. Experienced hyper growth as Bird exploded onto the map, enabled this growth by building the first several iterations of the service center and fleet tracking product for use in all markets Also worked on the Reliability and Mechanic Engineering teams from time to time
Bird designs a vehicle sharing platform that provides affordable transportation solutions to communities across the world.
Raised $916,000,000.00 from Travis VanderZanden and Shane Torchiana.
Software Engineer
2017 - 2018
• Core Android Team • Tinder U, Bitmoji in Tinder, Edit Profile, Profile Share and more Built features that are used daily by tens of millions of users, learnt Kotlin, RxJava and the intricacies of dependency injection with Dagger
Tinder anonymously finds people nearby that like each other and connects them if they are both interested.
Raised $50,000,000.00 from Benchmark.
Founder and President
2014 - 2017
Founded WPI's student entrepreneurship club. Fostered entrepreneurial activity on campus. Organized talks and workshops with entrepreneurs, and started the Startup Career Fair to get students jobs at early stage startups. Individually, I also worked with the school on institutional initiatives in innovation and entrepreneurship, including giving talks to visiting university delegations, consulting during the search for the next Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at WPI. Find us: http://techentrepreneurs.org Read about us: https://lnkd.in/d8ZApSj We’re also mentioned in this book on entrepreneurship: https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=_bVeDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=wpi+tech+entrepreneurs&source=bl&ots=a8vytusb3X&sig=ACfU3U3Pm89qlh7ozzK5dxsdxYWp82BLWw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjCxbTm-fnrAhVVtZ4KHZQIAmo4HhDoATAEegQIBhAB#v=onepage&q=wpi%20tech%20entrepreneurs&f=false And in this paper: https://www.academia.edu/39062238/Entrepreneurship_Education_as_a_Service
Software Engineer (Microsoft Garage)
2016 - 2016
• Created a data analytics and warehousing solution for the interactive exhibits at the Hall of Human Life at the Museum of Science, Boston, including a real-time operations dashboard (Azure, Power BI) and an automatic anomaly detection system, trained using machine learning models • Microsoft and the Museum of Science called it a model for transformational corporate-civic partnerships on their respective blogs (linked below) • The museum can now draw insights about visitor interaction with its exhibits within the Hall of Human Life using data it gathers from visitors
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Software Development Engineer
2016 - 2016
• Kindle for Android • Created a framework to improve the navigational experience in Page Flip, and built its first iteration • The Page Flip feature for Kindle was launched in June 2016 and enabled non linear navigation in e-readers for the first time ever (think flipping through a textbook)
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Raised $8,108,000,000.00 from DBS Bank and Mizuho Bank.