Naveen Selvadurai
Venture Partner at Expa
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2021
investments and experiments
Board Member
2015 - 2020
Board of Directors, June 2015 – October 2020 President and Chairman, June 2015 – March 2020
Current is a premier U.S. fintech platform dedicated to empowering Americans in their pursuit of a brighter financial future.
Raised $402,400,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, Expa, Wellington Management, Elizabeth Street Ventures, Avenir, Invus Opportunities, Andreessen Horowitz, Foundation Capital, TQ Ventures and Sapphire Ventures.
Partner
2014 - 2020
A company to build companies.
Expa Labs is a program for early stage companies.
Founder
2015 - 2018
acquired by Patreon.
Kit is an online seller of consumer products.
Raised $2,500,000.00 from Civilization Ventures, Plug and Play, #Angels, Black Angel Tech Fund, Social Capital, Precursor Ventures, April Underwood, Authentic Ventures, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund) and Ellen Pao.
founder
2013 - 2015
a space on Centre St where I incubated a few ideas of my own, invested in a couple of others' and hosted a few startups.
co-founder
2008 - 2012
Adjunct
2009 - 2009
wherein i taught the course 'interactive design concepts' (fa326).
Engineer
2007 - 2009
wherein i helped build a service and mobile applications to allow people to share stories and discover content tagged to real-world places.
Socialight offers a mobile urban navigation service, enabling users to discover, share and rate restaurants and tag secret bars for friends.
Raised $100,000.00 from 500 Global.
Engineer
2003 - 2007
wherein i helped build the team and products behind sony's mobile offerings: sony music box, one of the first mobile music stores, and all its behind-the-scenes transcoding engines.
Sony Music is a music corporation owned and operated by Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate.
Education
B.S., M.S.
1999 - 2003