Mehul Shah
Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund
Mehul Shah
Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder & CTO
2014 - Current
Blueshift is pioneering AI-Powered Customer Engagement, across all marketing channels including email, mobile, websites & paid media. Now, marketers can use the power of big data and machine learning to automate recommendations and triggers across the customer's lifecycle. Blueshift has been recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Customer Data Platforms. Blueshift won Deloitte #Fast500 fastest growing companies in North America and was recognized as a Cool Vendor by Gartner. Blueshift has raised over $65M from Storm Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Fort Ross ventures, Avatar Growth Capital and SoftBank.
Venture Partner
2019
Director of Product & Engineering - Groupon Goods
2012 - 2014
Mertado.com was acquired by Groupon to become Groupon Goods. Post acquisition, I drove the product and platform for the Goods business with grew to $1B+ in gross merchandise value within 18 months of the acquisition.
Co-founder & CTO
2010 - 2012
Mertado was a social commerce application that was acquired by Groupon in Jan 2012. Mertado was backed by Redpoint Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Rustic Canyon Partners & Y Combinator, with a total of $3.3 million of funding. Mertado was acquired by Groupon in Jan 2012 to power their social commerce business, Groupon Goods.
Engineering Lead - Platform
2007 - 2009
Acquired by Walmart to become @WalmartLabs.
Engineering Lead
2005 - 2007
Acquired by EMC.
Senior Software Engineer
2001 - 2005
Worked on fault-tolerant enterprise class software for large-scale distributed content caching (Content Distribution Networks), File systems, Compression.