Snehal Shinde

Chief Product Officer & Co-founder

2020 - Current

Get an AI-powered finance team with real-time dashboard to manage all the finance functions for your startup or small business on one platform - bookkeeping, yearly taxes, bill pay & invoicing, financial projections & budgeting, employee reimbursements and more.

General Partner

2018

Twin Ventures is an AI-focused Angel Fund that backs entrepreneurs who are building disruptive ventures, solving real-world problems. We invest in companies that define new markets that can turn into category leaders through Applied AI Observe AI - Voice AI for Call Centers Sibros - Enabling Connected Vehicle Ecosystem Matician - AI-powered Robots to help People SecurityPal - Wake up to completed security questionnaires in your inbox Avoma - Your Intelligent Assistant for meetings Beans AI - AI-powered Last 100 Mile Delivery Zeni - AI-powered Finance Team for Startups and Small Businesses Daloopa - AI built financial models Hammoq - SaaS platform for the resale e-commerce industry Verisim Life - AI-powered Drug Insights Meemo - Personal Finance Reinvested for Millenials (acquired by Coinbase) XOR - Recruitment Engagement Automation Chime - IOT enabled Personalized Chai Machine DataSine - AI-powered Content Personalization Games of Whales - AI-powered Revenue Optimizer Suspect Technologies - AI-powered Law Enforcement Platform Shoptimze - AI-enabled Commerce for Brands Pawsh - Personalized Dog Grooming GenePath - Next-generation Molecular Diagnostics Platform Zuma - Converts hot leads into booked tours using AI 10xar - Unveiling the Future of AR with Human-Computer Interaction Loop - Convert e-commerce Customers into Subscribers

Vice President, Product Management

2018 - 2020

Amex acquired Mezi for $125M in Jan 2018. Took the Mezi mission forward post-acquisition. Focused on integrating Mezi within the flagship Amex mobile app and scaling the Mezi platform to 10 million users across 8 countries and grew the organization to 100+ employees.

Chief Product Officer, CTO & Co-founder

2015 - 2018

Co-owns and drives the overall vision and business strategy in addition to leading the overall Product and Technology efforts. Mezi is revolutionizing travel by giving you an AI assistant for all your travel needs. Just say where you want to go and Mezi helps you make it happen -- from booking your flight and hotel, to figuring out what to do, to handling your online check-in or changes of plans, to being your on-the-ground guide when you arrive. All through a simple messaging app. Artificial intelligence is on the bleeding edge of technology, and we believe that the world has yet to be shown how it fits into their lives. Mezi aims to invent what that means for the everyday person. We envision a world where anyone can travel with the ease and confidence knowing they have an assistant in their pocket wherever they go.

Advisor

2015 - 2015

Advice on International / Emerging Markets Business & Product Strategy

Vice President, Emerging Markets

2014 - 2015

Responsible for running Rdio across India and Emerging markets Overseeing P&L, Business Development, Sales and Marketing

Co-founder, President & CTO

2013 - 2014

CEO and Co-founder

2011 - 2013

Product Management

2009 - 2011

Lead the Product Management for Social Sharing Initiatives across all key Yahoo! Media properties like News, Movies, Finance and Sports. Also lead the company’s Open APIs initiative for getting media properties on Mobile. • Lead Y! Media Social Sharing widget/platform integration on all Y! Media properties (Finance, News, TV, Movies, Music, OMG - having 5-6 billion widget views per month) • Enabling easy sharing across Facebook and Twitter, tracking clicks & shares, providing real time analytics. Provide a single version for social sharing and social analytics • Localization of the products across 12 languages • Talking to different y! media properties, convincing them to use our product and stick to one standard • Lead Y! Open APIs for Mobile and Web: coming up with open API standards, market research on how other major players are doing it (NYTimes, Flickr, Google etc). Meeting with leads from major Y! Media properties, getting them to use the standards & pushing for the right way of building open APIs across all properties. These Open APIs are now used by Y! Mobile, Y! Tech and Y! Apps on iPhone and iPad • Lead Y! Media Read Me Later product: market research on already existing players in this domain, build a case to chose the right option: build our own or acquire an existing player

Technical Yahoo!

2006 - 2008

Worked as a Technical Yahoo! / Software Engineer in Yahoo! News, Media Engineering department. • Built highly scalable, reliable software for dynamic news websites and backend servers • Lead a new initiative ‘People of the Web’ that was part of Yahoo News! Sites. Oversaw the backend design and development and made sure all goals were reached and tracked properly. • Implemented highly scalable Memory and File based Caching technologies for fast information retrieval using PHP/C++ and Design Patterns • Designed and Developed different backend modules and web services using XML, Design Patterns, PHP, Apache and MySQL. • Designed normalized Database Schemas for highly scalable backend servers, replicating these databases using MySQL replications on FreeBSD Servers • Developed and refined the middle tire business logic for Yahoo News Servers using PHP, XML, Web Services and MySQL • Generalized the Most Popular (Most Emailed and Most Recommended) modules so that they can be used across Yahoo Media Engineering groups

Sr. Engineer

2004 - 2006

Software Engineer

2003 - 2004