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Sumit Agarwal
Founder of Ario
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Sumit Agarwal is the CEO of Ario, a successful startup based in Palo Alto, California, with a strong background in product management and business development. Notable highlights include his role as Co-founder and COO at Shape Security and his experience as a Senior Advisor for Cyber Innovation at the US Department of Defense.
Work Experience
CEO & Co-founder
2022 - Current
We're building an assistant for busy people, starting with parents. Ario takes the boring stuff off your plate, including family calendaring, return management, and itinerary planning. Because if cost weren't an issue, *everyone* would want a personal assistant.
Ario operates as a personal AI assistant that manages daily tasks, offering features like family calendaring and return management.
Raised $16,000,000.00 from Wing Venture Capital, Floodgate, Bain Capital Ventures and Moxxie Ventures.
Partner
2022 - 2023
Mission matters. Assisting the next generation of great entrepreneurs in tackling massive challenges.
Shield Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in founders building frontier technologies.
Vice-President, Analytic Products
2020 - 2022
Swan Labs is a provider of enterprise wide area network optimization and application acceleration solutions.
Raised $15,000,000.00 from DCM Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and Benhamou Global Ventures.
Co-Founder, COO
2011 - 2020
We founded Shape in Nov 2011, raised nearly $200M over eight years, and joined forces with F5 in Jan 2020. Along the way we invented "credential stuffing" and created a new category within security.
Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications.
Raised $183,000,000.00 from EPIC Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Top Tier Capital Partners, Kleiner Perkins, C5 Capital, JetBlue Ventures and Focus Ventures.
Network Warfare Officer
1998 - 2015
Various roles, United States Air Force, retired as Major.
United States Air Force is an aerial arm of the armed forces that provides compelling air, space, and cyber capabilities.
Senior Advisor for Cyber Innovation
2010 - 2011
Responsible for helping DoD develop new ways of engaging with small, innovative private sector companies in cyber security. One of the youngest members of Senior Executive Service in Department of Defense.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
2010 - 2010
Joined Obama administration, assigned to Dept of Defense. Responsible for helping DoD set strategy and policy for how to use Web 2.0 technology. My work helped set policy for how 2M+ men and women in uniform use web-based capabilities in their business lives (including overseas in war zones). While serving in this office I was one of the highest ranking Indian-Americans in the Dept of Defense.
Oxford Construction of Pennsylvania is specializing in building construction
Head of Mobile Product Management, North America
2008 - 2009
Led team of seven product managers who in turn worked with over 35 engineers to launch 20+ features in various Google mobile products
Senior Product Manager
2005 - 2008
Designed and launched carrier-specific versions of Google search products (note: this was a bad idea - users hated the carrier-degraded versions of our products) Designed partner-specific versions of products, negotiated deals to distribute products with major carriers like AT&T, Vodafone, etc.
Product Manager
2003 - 2005
Product Manager on AdWords. Designed, executed, and launched over a dozen major features generating over $100M in revenue. Filed and received over a dozen patents. Received Executive Management Group award.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Associate
2001 - 2002
Did diligence and assisted in making investments at early-stage venture capital firm. Board observer for portfolio companies.
Atlas Venture creates and invests in biotech startup companies with seed and early stage venture investments.
Co-Founder
1999 - 2000
Co-founded geo-location start-up and ran product management. Acquired by Neustar.
Pre-sales Engineer
1998 - 1999
Part of TU '98