RM

Ritik Malhotra

Founder of Savvy Wealth

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • Founder & CEO

    2021 - Current

    https://savvywealth.com

  • Angel Investor

    2014

    Seed-stage investor and LP in 20+ startups and VC funds. Investments include Retool, Mercury, Mux, Forge, Lambda School, and more. Formal roles held: * Venture Partner, Pioneer Fund (Mar 2018 - Present) * Venture Partner, Ironfire (Oct 2015 - Present) * Managing Partner, S2 Capital (Mar 2017 - Feb 2018)

  • Director, Product Management

    2019 - 2021

    Mar '19 - Feb '20: Started and launched Brex Cash, Brex's second business line after the corporate card. Brex Cash is a corporate bank account alternative built for small businesses. Led product from idea to launch, growing from 5 to 100+ people working on Cash across the company. Mar '20 - Jun '20: Worked on M&A, evaluating companies to acquire to accelerate product roadmap. Led acquisition of four companies, adding 11 technical leaders to lead product development across the company. Jun '20 - Apr '21: Helped incubate, build, and launch the Spend Management org and product suite. The Spend Management suite is comprised of Expense Management, Bill Pay, and Reimbursement software built on top of Brex Card and Cash. Helped recruit and grow the Spend Management engineering, product, and design org from 3 to 30+ people.

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2018 - 2019

    Acquired by Brex in March 2019, and is now Brex Cash. Started Elph to build a secure, auditable financial ledger for companies to record multi-party transactions. Accepted into Y Combinator as part of the Winter 2019 batch. Raised $1.2M in seed funding from VC and angel investors. Grew team to five full-time engineers and two contractors. Acquired by Brex in March 2019 and is now living on as Brex Cash.

  • Product / Engineering Lead

    2014 - 2017

    Led the integration of the Streem product at Box post-acquisition, growing team from 4 to 30+ people. Launched as Box Drive (box.com/drive), now Box's flagship desktop product with 1M+ users.

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2012 - 2014

    Acquired by Box in June 2014, and is now Box Drive. Started Streem to build a cloud storage solution that would require no data syncing or client-side data storage. Accepted into Y Combinator as part of the Summer 2012 batch. Raised $875,000 in seed funding from VC and angel investors. Grew team to four full-time engineers and two contractors. Launched a cross-platform cloud storage product on web, mobile, and desktop. Grew to 60,000 users in two weeks after launch through a viral referral campaign. Acquired by Box in June 2014 and is now living on as Box Drive. Tech built: kernel-mode file system (Mac & Windows), backend API, web/mobile/desktop clients, on-demand ABR video transcoder.

  • Thiel Fellow

    2012 - 2014

    Startup funding program started by Peter Thiel. Awarded $100,000 as a non-dilutive grant to work on Streem (see above).

  • Co-Founder

    2011 - 2012

    Started SVPrep, a learning academy that taught mathematics, computer science, public speaking, debate, and essay writing to middle and high school students. Bootstrapped business to $1M+ ARR.

  • Software Engineer

    2011 - 2011

    User Growth team. Designed and implemented several features and experiments to increase user growth and engagement metrics. Scaled user invite infrastructure to process millions of queries per day.

  • Software Engineer

    2010 - 2010

    Human Computer Interaction team. Researched and developed perceptual computing techniques to operate the computer without a mouse and keyboard. Wrote scientific review paper on findings and comparison of various methods.

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