Kahini Shah
Partner at Obvious Ventures
Kahini Shah
Partner at Obvious Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2024 - Current
Principal
2022
Obvious is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage, purpose-driven entrepreneurs.
Board Member
2023
Board Member
2023
AI Phase II Reviewer
2020
Review Artificial Intelligence & Data Science proposals eligible for $1M of funding.
Investor @ Gradient Ventures
2019 - 2022
Google’s AI-focused early-stage venture capital fund investing. Investments - UnitQ (Series A): product quality monitoring using NLP - Tandym (Pre-seed & Seed): private label credit card platform - Lambda Labs (Series A): GPU workstations and cloud - Heyday Health (Seed): in-home primary care for seniors - SayMine (Series A): data privacy & GDPR compliance - Fragment (Pre-seed): database for money - Dropbase (Pre-seed): no-code data centralization and transformation - Astro (Pre-Seed): Open source framework to speed up websites - Hugo (Seed): AI enabled notetaking (acq. Calendly) - Iteratively (Seed): product analytics tracking plan (acq. Amplitude) - Myst.ai (Series A) : Al for time series data (acq. Snowflake)
Board Observer
2020 - 2022
Board Observer
2019 - 2022
Lead Associate
2016 - 2017
Product manager and business development for AI platform and services providing natural language processing (search, content recommendations and chatbots) capabilities to federal and health clients. Created solutions clients like recreation.gov, benefits.gov, NIH and more.
Associate
2015 - 2016
Engineering Leadership Development Program
2012 - 2015
Three year corporate rotational leadership program for high potential employees; worked as an embedded systems engineer (Iridium NEXT satellite constellation), machine learning engineer and scrum master.
Software Engineer
2011 - 2012