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Karthika Purushothaman

Venture Associate at Bling Capital

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Overview 

Karthika Purushothaman is an MBA candidate at Wharton, currently serving as a Venture Associate at Bling Capital. With a background that includes being an early employee at DoorDash and holding leadership roles in engineering, she brings a wealth of experience in tech and entrepreneurship to her current position. Highlights of Karthika's career include her role as Vice President of Engineering at Gander (formerly Meet Klara) and her tenure at DoorDash as a Tech Lead, showcasing her expertise in software development and product management in high-growth environments.

Work Experience 

  • Venture Associate

    2024 - Current

  • Seed Investor

    2023 - 2024

    Helping Goodwater's portfolio companies grow. Deal Lead for a company in YC23

Goodwater Genesis seeks out exceptional entrepreneurs and helps them cultivate the success they deserve.

  • Vice President Of Engineering

    2022 - 2023

    Leading engineering teams responsible for data analytics and growth pipelines, building out https://dashboard.gogander.online/auth/login, experimentation framework for DTC brands to track conversion and sales

Gander collects and embeds user-generated video content into retail sites so shoppers can see what a product looks like in real life.

Raised $4,200,000.00 from Freestyle Capital, Crossbeam Venture Partners, Harlem Capital Partners, Atacama Ventures and Boon Fund.

  • Tech Lead

    2021 - 2022

    Led initiatives like Cash On Delivery, McDonalds Launch, FIFO.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2019 - 2021

  • Software Engineer

    2018 - 2019

DoorDash is a food delivery platform that connects customers with local and national businesses.

Raised $2,471,820,000.00 from Durable Capital Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, T. Rowe Price and Fidelity.

  • Tech Lead Manager

    2016 - 2018

    Driver’s mission is to empower cancer patients. Our team of 50+ engineers, scientists, physicians, and other entrepreneurs is building a first-in-kind global platform to connect patients to potentially life-prolonging therapies.

Driver is a technology platform that connects people to treatments and knowledge, all over the world, to get more life.

  • Member of Technical Staff

    2015 - 2016

    Query Optimization team

Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.

  • Software Engineer Intern- Aladdin Product Group

    2014 - 2014

    • Led the development of Social Security Benefits Estimator tool • Worked with senior software developers, managers, product owners and VP • Implemented it with Angular JS and Highcharts. • Built a tool for analysing 30000 log files using Pig, Parse and Highcharts

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  • Research Assistant

    2013 - 2014

    We are trying to implement hill climbing algorithm on Facebook data to narrow down on the individuals need to be targeted to maximize influence of a product.

  • Summer Intern

    2012 - 2012

    I was one of the early employees(first 100) at Byjus (founded in 2011) and I worked on developing apps and content. Today, the company is valued at $18 billion

BYJU'S FutureSchool is a premier online learning platform that connects kids from age 6-18 with live teachers.

  • Summer Intern

    2011 - 2011

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