Nidhi Jain
Founder of CloudEagle
Los Altos, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2021 - Current
WHAT WE DO: CloudEagle.ai helps IT, security & Procurement teams manage, govern & renew all their SaaS apps from one single platform. With CloudEagle.ai, enterprises like RingCentral, Shiji, Recroom make SaaS management & governance a breeze & save 10-30% on their software spend. Using 500+ direct connectors, customers get 100% visibility into all applications, licences, spend and vendors. Using no code slack-enabled workflows, IT & security teams streamline employee onboarding/offboarding, access reviews, licence harvesting and renewals. Leveraging detailed usage insights and benchmarking data, customers negotiate better with vendors & optimize tech stack. Our platform processed over $2bn and delivered over $150M in savings. Our industry-leading 30-minute onboarding ensures immediate governance & savings from day 1. HIRING: ML/NLP and Data engineers, Tech Lead, SDR, Demand Gen & Growth executives. Hit me up to learn more!
Complete SaaS management and Procurement platform
Investor & Advisor
2014
Invest in promising B2B SAAS tech companies
Berkeley Angel Network is a venture capital and private equity firm that specializes in the fields of finance and investment management.
Volunteer
2014
Invest and advise B2B SAAS tech companies based out of India.
Director Of Growth, Strategic Partnerships
2018 - 2021
ServiceNow Venture invests in a diverse range of innovative technologies across enterprise software.
Director of Security, Box Skills & ECM Partnerships
2015 - 2018
- Responsible for building and managing partner ecosystems to drive product differentiation and generate pipeline through key strategic partner like AWS, Okta & Slack - Define Box's multi-cloud strategy to reap go to market benefits from public cloud providers like Google, AWS and MFST - Scaled the company's partner ecosystem to more than 2000 partners and increased partner influenced deals and pipeline by 5x - Launched the Box Trust Security Partner Program, CCM and Box Skills Partner Program; recruited key partners like Symantec, Palo Alto, Pega etc to develop integrations with Box; 99.5% of partner integrations are partner built, saving Box millions of dollars in engineering spend. - Define the partner strategy for Box Shuttle, an OEM migration service that Box offers to its customers to move content to Box; Shuttle is a key enabler for Box adoption and has generated over $4m in the first year of launch - Manage the AWS partner relationship; turning it from a vendor to a strategic partner where Box is considered top 10 GTM partner; Werner Vogel was present at Boxworks 2016 as a keynote speaker
Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, and administrative controls.
Raised $1,458,950,000.00 from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
Strategic Partnerships & technology Strategy
2013 - 2015
- Responsible for forging and managing strategic partnerships to drive new user acquisition and revenue & close critical product gaps for QuickBooks, Intuit Developer Platform and Intuit Payments - Led the strategy, negotiation and acquisition of an integration platform, ITDuzzit to enable faster integrations to be used internally for strategic partners as well as by developers - Led the development of a retail point-of-sale partner strategy and evaluation of build/buy/partner options, leading to the selection of RevelPOS - Led the partnership effort for a sales tax calculator partner, Exactor. Eventually, Intuit acquired Exactor Strategy partner to the CTO responsible for defining the technology roadmap & business metrics for Intuit’s emerging SAAS products - Define framework to assess and track product development spend across different business units in terms of horizon and category spend; Conduct a benchmarking study to simplify allocations and funding model for the central platform - Defined operational metrics to assess revenue and profitability of emerging SAAS products
Intuit Turbo is an app to get financial reports and financial advice.
Investment Professional
2011 - 2013
Responsible for identifying investment opportunities and act as the operating partner providing strategic marketing and strategic financial planning & analysis oversight to portfolio companies
Board Advisor, Astral Pipes
2011 - 2013
Astral Pipes is the fastest growing pipe brand in India with a current market cap of $2bn and growing. When I identified this company to invest in, it was a $150m market cap. High capital efficiency, macro tail winds of nuclear families funding construction growth, great entrepreneurs. Multi-bagger for the fund. Helped the CEO develop and implement the go-to-market strategy for building nationwide presence from a regional brand.
Investment Professional
2009 - 2011
Responsible for identifying investment opportunities for the fund as well as formulate and implement turnaround and growth strategies for portfolio companies
Board Advisor, Semantic
2009 - 2011
http://www.semanticspace.com 3 group companies – SemanticSpace Technologies, Arsin and Prolifics, SemanticSpace is based out of Hyderabad and provides IT lifecycle solutions on a global delivery platform. Advised the CEO on the acquisition of Prolifics
Board Advisor, Eastern Condiments Pvt Ltd
2009 - 2011
https://eastern.in/ Eastern Condiments is India's number 1 spice exporter. Helped the CFO define the logistics and sales strategy of the company
Board Advisor, Techproces (acquired by Ingenico)
2009 - 2011
http://www.techprocess.co.in/ India’s leading electronic payments firm with a simple vision to offer anytime, anywhere payments Helped CEO define channel growth strategy
TMT Investment Banking
2007 - 2009
Class of 2008, Tech investment banking
Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Sr. Manager Database Operations
2005 - 2007
Responsible for managing and optimizing the 24 by 7 billing infrastructure, which supports Yahoo!’s paid websites such as Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Small Business. Managed a team of 3 database administrators.
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.