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Pj Gurumohan

Strategic Advisor at Quadric

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

PJ Gurumohan is the Co-founder & COO at Nectar, a company specializing in Hardware as a Service and Software as a Service. With a background in hardware engineering and a successful track record in co-founding and leading tech companies like Genwi and Togetherville, PJ excels in product vision & strategy, cross-functional team leadership, and go-to-market strategies. PJ's career highlights include successfully co-founding and leading companies like Genwi, which was acquired by Persistent Systems, and Togetherville, acquired by Disney, showcasing his expertise in building and scaling tech startups. Currently, as the COO at Nectar, he continues to drive innovation in hardware and software services while leveraging his diverse skill set in venture capital, IoT device development, and machine learning systems.

Work Experience 

  • Co-founder & COO

    2014 - Current

    At Nectar we recognized the need for auto replenishment of goods (food, beverages and personal care products) from personal pain points which lead to the pioneering of new category of IoT products; Container Caps - that measure and track volume and reorder your essentials before you run out.

Nectar develops an IoT solution for the hospitality and consumer packaged goods industries.

Raised $4,550,000.00 from Dragon Capital, Chetrit Ventures and Justin Mateen.

  • Strategic Advisor

    2017

    Quadric invented “Flex AI”. Chimera driven chips can adopt to your AI needs in seconds.

Quadric is a Semiconductor IP licensor. Quadric's GPNPU processor blends machine learning inference performance with DSP programmability.

Raised $43,750,000.00 from Xerox Venture Capital, MESH, Uncork Capital, Cota Capital, MegaChips, Denso, Pear VC and Leawood Venture Capital.

  • Co-founder & CEO

    2010 - 2014

    Genwi enabled publishers to engage with millions of consumers on mobile in realtime.

  • Co-founder, Product & Technology Lead

    2006 - 2010

    Deliver socially curated content from personalized sources of news and social media

GENWI enables content publishers to create live and engaging apps with a cloud-based mobile Content Management System (mCMS).

Raised $7,100,000.00 from Floodgate and Elevation Partners.

  • Interim CTO

    2008 - 2009

    Safe browsing and social network for kids below age 10

  • Research Fellow & Associate

    2002 - 2006

    Research associate for Intel, NSF and ASU foundation sponsored projects

  • Corporate Leaders Program Intern

    2000 - 2002

    Management and leadership training through Corporate Leaders Program at ASU

US Airways provides international and domestic air transport in the United States.

  • Software Engineer

    1999 - 2000

IBM is an IT technology and consulting firm providing computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.

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