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Umesh Khanna

Scout at Andreessen Horowitz

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Umesh Khanna is currently leading new initiatives at Dropbox AI and working as a scout at a16z, with a strong background in product management, entrepreneurship, and finance. With experience at top venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, Umesh has demonstrated leadership and success in driving product innovation and growth in various roles within the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Dropbox AI: New Initiatives

    2023 - Current

Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.

Raised $1,709,215,000.00 from JP Morgan Chase, RBC Capital, Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Group, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Partners.

  • Scout

    2024

Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.

  • Scout

    2023 - 2024

Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.

  • Product Lead : Underwriting

    2022 - 2023

    2nd product hire

Middesk is an identity platform that automates business verification and underwrites decisions.

Raised $77,000,000.00 from Gaingels, Accel, Canapi Ventures, Insight Partners and Sequoia Capital.

  • KP Product Fellow

    2020 - 2023

Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.

  • Founding Product Manager

    2020 - 2022

    1st product hire, employee #13

Nearside provides financial and software services for SMBs.

Raised $73,000,000.00 from Kevin Hartz, Ryan Petersen, Valar Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Michael Ovitz, Jim Breyer and Foundation Capital.

  • Investment Fellow

    2019 - 2020

  • Product Manager

    2016 - 2019

    Jan 2016 - Apr 2016: Software Engineering Intern @ TD Bank Sept 2016 - Dec 2016: Solutions Engineering Intern @ Shopify Plus (Added google autocomplete to checkout) May 2017 - Aug 2017: Product Engineering Intern @ Clearbanc (Clearbanc’s first engineering intern) Jan 2018 - Apr 2018: Product Manager on Toast Capital & Analytics @ Toast Inc Jan 2019 - Apr 2019: Product Manager on Monetization @ Credit Karma

  • Product Manager : Flexport Capital

    2018 - 2019

    Dropped out of college again to work on building out Flexport Capital.

Flexport is a full-service global freight forwarder and logistics platform using modern software to fix the user experience in global trade.

Raised $2,699,000,000.00 from Shopify.

  • Co-Founder

    2015 - 2016

    Helping those who are vitamin deficient (like myself) to live life easier with monitoring provided by a single drop of blood. Think Theranos, but it's portable and works.

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