KS

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

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