Taher Haveliwala
Investor at QForge Ventures
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Work Experience
Investor | Advisor | Mentor
2010 - Current
Helping startups start up.
Co-Founder
2016 - 2020
Scalar Labs invests in and partners with early stage startups and entrepreneurs, helping develop their initial prototypes and technology platforms, focusing on areas related to search and machine learning.
Engineering Consultant
2010 - 2014
First hotel room-level search engine that tells you the best rooms to request before checking in. Includes interactive floor plans, simulated room views from each window, and other room-level details. Worked with CTO to build up engineering team and technology platform. Technology and engineering division acquired by Google in 2014
Room 77 is an online platform allowing travelers to compare pricing across online travel agencies, hotels, and book rooms worldwide.
Raised $43,800,000.00 from Sutter Hill Ventures, Spencer Rascoff, Expedia, Felicis, General Catalyst and SAP Concur.
Staff Software Engineer
2003 - 2008
Member of Search Rankings team; research and development of novel web search ranking algorithms, including personalized and context-sensitive search. Inventor on over 20 patents.
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.
Co-Founder (Acquired by Google Inc.)
2003 - 2003
Co-founded startup (acquired by Google in 2003) that researched, developed, and commercialized a web-scale personalized search engine.
Research Intern
2000 - 2000
Developed term-clustering algorithms based on web-scale data mining. Mentor: Director of Google Research, Monika Henzinger
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.
Research Intern
1998 - 1998
Worked with Aspect Oriented Programming team on developing tool to analyze source code to find cross-cutting aspects. Co-Inventor on patent "Aspect-Oriented System Monitoring and Tracing" Mentor: Gregor Kiczales
PARC provides custom R&D services, technologies, expertise, and intellectual property to startups, government agencies, and partners.
Research Intern
1997 - 1997
Developed cellular automata based tool for modeling Smart Matter. Mentor: Roy Want
PARC provides custom R&D services, technologies, expertise, and intellectual property to startups, government agencies, and partners.
Education
Ph.D.
1998 - 2005
M.S.
1998 - 2001
Bachelor’s Degree
1994 - 1998