Karthika Purushothaman
Venture Associate at Bling Capital
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overview
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
information contained on the LifePath Paycheck website is intended
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