Shantanu Gangal

CEO

2018 - Current

Prodigal is the category leader in lending intelligence. It is backed by Y-Combinator, Accel and Menlo VC

Head of Data Science and Analytics

2015 - 2018

I built the data analytics team at Fundbox and grew it to 7 analysts and interns. The analytics team works across a wide range of functions at Fundbox like Growth & Marketing, Collections, Product and Finance. The team is responsible for modeling product behaviors and driving business decisions based on the analysis. The team runs A/B tests, designs KPIs and builds executive monitoring dashboards. In addition, I am also responsible for Fundbox's data relationships with external credit bureaus and marketing vendors.

Mentor

2016 - 2016

Analyst Intern

2014 - 2014

Data Scientist - Intern

2014 - 2014

At ZestFinance, I worked with Sr. Data Scientist to improve their credit scoring model. Specifically, I studied the visitors to ZestCash.com and built hypothesis about the nature of applicant webpage interactions. I identified signals that were statistically significant predictors of default rates (back-tested on c. 150k historical applications). We integrated the findings with the risk model to show a meaningful $ impact for each loan. Over the summer, I ended up making friends across the engineering, marketing and analysis teams. I blogged about my summer experience at http://www.whartonfintech.org/blog/zestfinance-and-my-internship-fintech/

Analyst - Private Equity

2011 - 2013

Associate

2009 - 2011

Summer Intern

2007 - 2007