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Hiten Shah
Founder of Nira
Redwood City, California
Overview
Hiten Shah is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nira, based in Redwood City, California. With a background in product management and entrepreneurship, he has successfully co-founded and led companies like Crazy Egg and FYI, and has made impactful investments in startups like Truebill and Loom.
Shah's career highlights include his leadership roles at KISSmetrics and Nira, where he has demonstrated expertise in SaaS, analytics, and digital marketing, and his investments in innovative startups, contributing to the growth of companies like Density and Clearbit.
Work Experience
Co-Founder and CEO
2021 - Current
Nira is a real-time access control system that proactively secures company documents. The product covers use cases for day-to-day problems that every company faces: • See all personal accounts: Identify all the personal accounts that have access to company documents and remove unauthorized access • See all public links: Quickly see which company documents have public links including closing public links on stale documents (e.g. haven’t been modified in over 1 year) • Remove old vendors: Removing ex vendors and external parties who should no longer have access • Secure confidential documents: Ensure access is locked down for confidential documents • Compliment your offboarding process: Transfer ownership individually or in bulk within company accounts, and remove offboarded employee personal account access Learn more at nira.com
Co-Owner
2005
Crazy Egg is a heat mapping tool that designers, marketers, product people and business owners use to improve the effectiveness of their websites.
Crazy Egg allows website owners to create tests to figure out what users are doing on their site.
Co-Founder and CEO
2018 - 2021
Before discovering the opportunity for Nira, we had created FYI. It was an enterprise search product that connected to two dozen SaaS apps and helped you find documents in 3 clicks or less. More details in this tweet thread about our pivot to Nira: https://twitter.com/hnshah/status/1399773415213436934
Board Member
2008 - 2015
Co-Founder and CEO
2008 - 2014
KISSmetrics is a SaaS web and mobile analytics software.
Kissmetrics offers behavioral analytics and segmentation across both website and product
Raised $16,390,185.00 from Polaris Partners, True Ventures, Azure Capital Partners, Polaris Partners, Felicis, True Ventures, Azure Capital Partners, Cameron Lester and Signatures Capital.
Co-Founder
2002 - 2008
Education
BS
1998 - 2003