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Kanishka Maheshwari
Vice President of Product Management at Circle
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Kanishka Maheshwari is a VP of Product Management and Entrepreneur based in Menlo Park, CA, with a background in SaaS, Agile Methodologies, and Enterprise Software. Notable career highlights include serving as Vice President of Product Management at Circle and founding InterPrime Technologies Inc. as Co-Founder and CEO.
Currently, Kanishka is leveraging his expertise in product management and software development to drive strategic growth and innovation in the tech industry, while also investing in early-stage companies in sectors like SMB Software and AI in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Work Experience
Vice President of Product Management
2023 - Current
VP of Product on the Liquidity team - Making USDC the most liquid, accessible and preferred stable coin globally.
Move $100k+ of crypto with our principal OTC desk.
Board Member
2022
LedgerDomain is a decentralized identity and transaction verification platform for the global health care supply chain. I help with GTM, Product Management and Corporate Strategy.
LedgerDomain brings fast, personalized and secure decentralized technologies to the pharmaceutical supply chain.
Member Of The Board Of Advisors
2018
I serve on the Board of Advisors for the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon. Dietrich includes the Statistics, Data Science Programs, and Information Systems program.
Co-Founder and CEO
2018 - 2023
Successfully founded and grew InterPrime into a leading Treasury Management provider for startups & middle market businesses. InterPrime was acquired by Rho in Feb 2022 and now lives on as Rho Prime Treasury. InterPrime offered an automated treasury management service that helped businesses keep their cash safe, secure and earning market rates of return with minimal effort. We managed over a quarter of a billion dollars in aggregate for clients while successfully navigating the wild swings in the rate environment over the last few years. All the while attracting new capital to InterPrime. We were funded by the top investors in Silicon Valley (YCombinator, Tribe Capital, Pioneer Fund, NoMo Ventures). We were picked as one of the top startups from YC Demo Day (W19) by TechCrunch and became a leader in Treasury Management for middle market businesses & startups. https://interprime.co/ https://www.interprime.co/blog
Interprime is a Provides “Apple level” treasury services.
Product Advisor
2023 - 2023
I helped Memfault staff up their product team by hiring 2PMs & a Designer. I also drove the inclusion of the "voice of the customer" into the product development process and developed the strategy for GTM & Product collaboration as the company scales post Series B. Memfault is the first IoT reliability platform that empowers teams to build robust devices at scale. Today's hardware teams have little insight into how their products are performing and what issues are driving the majority of field failures; with Memfault, they can operate with the same speed and agility as software companies.
IoT reliability platform that gives developers a more scalable & sustainable process to transform the way they build & operate devices
Raised $35,150,000.00 from Uncork Capital, 5G Open Innovation Lab, Partech and Stripes.
Head of Treasury Management
2022 - 2022
Rho acquired InterPrime in Feb 2022, and I served as the Head of Treasury Management at Rho post the acquisition. I led the efforts to integrate InterPrime into Rho's suite of products, and launch Rho Prime Treasury - https://www.rho.co/treasury
Rho is the all-in-one financial platform organizations rely on to manage spend and cash with greater efficiency, control, and visibility.
Raised $194,900,000.00 from M13, DFJ Growth, Inspired Capital Partners, Dragoneer Investment Group, Helium-3 Ventures and Torch Capital.
Director of Product Management, Search
2013 - 2018
I led Product Management for Search at Salesforce, the most used feature of the Salesforce platform, running over 150 million queries a day, and indexing over 1 Billion records daily for customers. I managed a global engineering team of over 50 (SF. Seattle, France) working on buidling core search engine features, the relevance platform, Search API functionality and integrating with partner products. Additionally, I also designed and built Salesforce's company wide A/B Testing & Experimentation platform.
Lead Software Engineer
2007 - 2013
As an early engineer at Salesforce I was one of the first engineers on the Salesforce Search Engine and was part of the team building it from scratch. I worked across the board on numerous search infrastructure, search relevance & front-end features. I also worked on the teams that built out Salesforce's Hadoop platform and it's deployment verification system.
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
Raised $65,375,124.00 from Starboard Value.
Co-Founder & Director
2008 - 2013
Nepal Education Initiative Organization aims to provide a sustainable educational environment for the children living in the regions of Nepal's Himalayan Valleys, thereby empowering them for a better future and enabling them to break the cycle of poverty. My major accomplishments were: • Led the development of 2 village schools serving 250+ students • Organized fund-raisers and made presentations to donors • Architected strategy to sustainably build schools in rural Nepal • Created and maintained organization's website, blog and endowment fund • Completed application process for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status approval
Analyst Intern
2006 - 2006
Assisted in fund raising process by identifying sources, researching and preparing presentations Performed due diligence on prospective companies for investment Worked actively with portfolio company on technical product development research, product positioning research and federal funding research
Application Developer Intern
2005 - 2005
Developed sales application extension in JAVA for 250+ global users resulting in 95% time reduction for trade confirmations Conducted roll out of Derivatives Deal Manager application enhancing portfolio analysis Developed database application for competitive performance analysis
Education
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