Sumanth Channabasappa

Founding President

2015 - Current

Boutique management and tech consulting firm that advises and partners with scale-ups and enterprise CXOs for rapid growth. ✓ Assembled this multi-disciplinary team, managed P&L, and provided oversight. ✓ Engaging with CXOs for rapid scale: both scale-ups (1-10M in ARR) and enterprise innovation portfolios; for: G2M strategies, execution strategy and biz growth. ✓ Augmenting leadership in B2B SaaS companies to leverage business model innovations, and emerging tech (e.g., AI) for rapid scale.

Venture Partner | Deal Flow Lead

2017

Growth-stage investor in startups with $1-10M net ARR. Portfolio of 20+ investments. See: https://www.3lines.vc/#portfolio ✓ Created deal flow to screen 800+ startups per year. ✓ Lead deal-screening, resulting in Series A/B lead/co-lead/follow-on investments. ✓ LP (investor) in the fund. Focus: enterprise SaaS in edtech, digital health, fintech, etc.; leveraging tech innovations and advancements in AI, cybersecurity, web3 technologies (outside of Crypto) etc.

Chief Strategy & Technology Officer

2022 - 2023

B2B SaaS: High-impact immersive caregiver training used by over 75 large medical centers, key universities, and State Departments of Human Services, senior services, etc. ✓ Led strategy for rapid growth, via revised business models, partnerships, and innovation via technology advancements for differentiation.

Executive Advisor // Strategy & Technology

2021 - 2021

Executive Advisor

2022 - 2022

✓ Mentored follow-on CEO and leadership team.

CEO, Product & Tech

2020 - 2022

B2B SaaS: Highly scalable risk management platform for events, media studios & academia. ✓ Led rapid scale (2M+ users in the first year) while competing with established companies. ✓ Managed P&L, resources, product, sales, marketing and partnerships.

Chief Architect, Office of the CTO

2016 - 2020

Applied R&D organization funded by major healthcare providers to create secure and interoperable products and services. Developed operating layer to significantly enhance interoperability and risk management for medical devices, to prevent over 250K yearly deaths in the US due to avoidable errors, while significantly reducing deployment costs. Key accomplishments: ✓ Swift launch of a cloud-based trust platform in collaboration with the CDC and over 75 hospitals across 17 states within four months, enhancing staff safety & supply chain resilience during the pandemic. ✓ Created interoperable specifications to increase interoperability, provide threat resilience (e.g., against WannaCry) and significant CapEx/OpEx savings. ✓ Demonstrated solutions to save lives concerning sepsis surveillance (affecting over 1.5 million US adults/year with over 250K fatalities) and pediatric code blue situations (impacting ~ 4K US children/year with a 27-38% survival rate).

Co-founder, CPO & CTO

2015 - 2017

B2B SaaS startup that built tech solutions for the blind/visually-impaired (BVI) to safely explore indoor/outdoor areas. FYI, BVI community: ~23mi(U.S.)/~285mi(global) I was a co-founder and investor, inspired by personal connections (parent, co-founder.) ✓ Designed and product managed a safe exploration platform (indoors & outdoors) for BVI users. ✓ Hired and managed engineers to build the API-based platform, visual and data analytics components, and partnered with BVI users for lab & live testing. ✓ Partnership development with industry and academia. Based on technology & market analyses, transitioned assets to Blind Institute of Technology (non-profit) & partners.

Director, Innovation | Network Technologies

2013 - 2015

CableLabs is creating technologies used by 500mi+ subscribers in 80+ countries; market impact $450B+. [As a report to the SVP of Network Technologies.] ✓ Established and program managed a technology pipeline, each with potential for $2B+ annual revenues; partnered with engineering to incubate 30+ proposals in networking (cable, fiber, wireless,) cybersecurity, AR/VR, telehealth, etc. Collaborators included Senior Technical Staff, Directors, and VPs.

Director, Advanced Networks & Applications

2012 - 2013

[As a report to the SVP of Network Technologies.] In this role I led a team of senior technical experts in IPv6, cloud/virtualization, and home networks.

Director, Network Design & Signaling Protocols

2010 - 2012

[As a report to the CTO] I led a team of 30+ Directors, Principal Architects, and Senior Engineers who were technical program leads for globally deployed technologies across broadband, voice and video communications, cloud technologies, SMB offerings, content distribution networks, IoT, business services and video technologies.

Senior Manager

2009 - 2010

Reported to: Director, PacketCable. Product owner of efforts such as proactive network maintenance to enhance customer experience by remotely and precisely detecting and fixing network failures across millions of broadband users.

Senior Systems Architect

2004 - 2009

Reported to: Director, PacketCable. Drove market requirements for provisioning & security teams of multi-national experts for PacketCable VoIP, deployed in 50M+ U.S. homes and more worldwide by cable companies. Designed a RESTful IoT architecture for home security and automation in partnership with technical leaders from 15+ global companies.

Product & Partners

2004 - 2004

Product management responsibilities at Alopa Networks continued following C-Cor's acquisition. C-Cor was subsequently acquired by Arris, Inc., which was eventually acquired by Commscope.

Product and Partnership Management

2000 - 2004

Alopa was a B2B SaaS startup that built broadband, VoIP & security products (acquired by C-COR.net, which was acquired by Arris, Inc., which is now part of Commscope). Expanded and managed product portfolio to include additional products for VoIP and security, was the key technology partner for major customers in US and Europe (e.g., Comcast, Liberty Global); and, established new partnerships with 30+ global hardware/silicon providers (e.g. Texas Instruments, Broadcom, Arris, etc.)

Engineering & Product Management Roles

2000 - 2002

Product Management & Software Engineering Roles

1999 - 2000

Software Engineering

1997 - 1998