Nitin Bhandari
Founder of Planera
Nitin Bhandari
Founder of Planera
Pleasanton, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder and CEO
2021 - Current
Planera offers collaborative CPM scheduling software that simplifies project management.
Raised $18,900,000.00 from Brick & Mortar Ventures, Firebolt Ventures, Prudence, Sorenson Capital and Sierra Ventures.
VP Strategic Initiatives
2020 - 2021
Worked on launching Life360 Membership plans, Google Assistant and Alexa integrations and expanding membership offering to International markets.
Life360 creates a mobile app for families that helps families feel closer together.
Raised $140,236,268.00 from Vanessa Bryant, Michael Phelps, Bryant Stibel Investments, Jada Crawley, Chip Carter Gaines, Tony Hawk, Chris Paul, Nicole Johnson, Stibel & Co. and Billy Perry.
Chief Executive Officer
2017 - 2020
The first app to help both you and your kids fight the digital attention crisis and establish better screen time habits, improving health and happiness.
CEO and Co-founder
2014 - 2017
Built products like Rocket Optimizer that is a leading NFV product for image and video optimization for wireless operators worldwide. Also used in many consumer products like Opera Max and Opera Browsers.
Chief Product Officer and Co-founder
2009 - 2014
Changing mobile internet, one product release at a time! Check us out at www.skyfire.com
CEO and Co-founder
2008 - 2009
Rebranded DVC Labs to Skyfire to launch the company and the product.
CEO and Co-founder
2006 - 2008
DVC Labs has been rebranded as Skyfire (www.skyfire.com) We are hiring exceptional talent with following skills: 1. Web technologist 2. Mobile application developers - all platforms 3. Wireless Technical product management Email and LinkedIn: nbhandari at skyfire dot com
SVP Products, Consumer Apps
2013 - 2017
Building Opera Cloud for Mobility and a suite of consumer apps (Privacy and Performance Utilities) that leverage cloud. Some products that my team worked on over the past years include: Opera Max (Data manager and date saving app for Android) Surfeasy VPN Opera VPN
Sr Manager, Advanced Development
1999 - 2006
Signal Integrity, Physical Layer, RF WLAN Product Design, Power Supply Design, Optics Selection and Qualification, ASIC I/O interface design, Serdes Selection and Qualification
Extreme Networks delivers the best wired/wireless networking experience for your staff, customers, and users.
Raised $17,300,000.00 from Trinity Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Norwest Venture Partners and AVI Capital.