Vishal Gurbuxani
Founder of Captiv8
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2015 - Current
Captiv8 is an AI powered branded content platform that provides a fully self-serve solution for managing branded content campaigns at scale. Managed and grew a portfolio of customer-facing products for the startup, which evolved into the world’s largest creator monetization platform. Owned product lifecycles, resource allocation, budgets, and deliverables for products spanning Analytics, Creator Search, Campaign Workflow, Measurement, Discovery, and Integration across Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok. Oversaw all day-to-day operations, including product, engineering, and strategy.
Captiv8 is a full-service, end-to-end influencer marketing solution.
Raised $4,000,000.00 from Unanimous Capital and Beehive Capital.
Advisor
2018 - 2019
CoinTheory was started with the vision on the world being digitized (tokenized) We work with clients from around the world that would like best practices, frameworks, and a platform for the secure tokenization of their product or service.
CoinTheory is a technology-focused solution development and advisory company.
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
2010 - 2013
Velti is the worlds leader in mobile performance marketing. Velti is a global company consisting of 1200 employees across 35 countries. Velti is publically traded on the NASDAQ (VELT) Directed the technology planning, vision, and roadmap for the Product and Technology group of Velti. Defined priorities for a global team of 650+ employees supporting the world’s leader in mobile performance marketing. Created mobile monetization platforms and solutions for global brands and businesses. Delivered thought leadership, employee engagement, and delivery of new products.
Velti provides mobile marketing and advertising technology and solutions for brands, advertisers, mobile operators, and media groups.
Raised $32,034,118.00 from Viola Credit and Viola Credit.
Co-Founder/Chief Product Officer
2008 - 2010
Mobclix is the first and largest mobile supply side platform for smartphone applications. Mobclix serves 30 billion impressions monthly and is the monetization platform of choices for Brands, Agencies, and Content Owners. Mobclix was acquired by Velti in October 2010. Owned the planning, vision, and technology roadmap to build the world’s first and largest mobile ad exchange for smartphone applications. Conducted extensive market research to build use cases, MVPs, and features. Positioned the company for success with streamlined operations and future-state thinking, leading to 30B+ monthly impressions. Created a strong brand that served as the monetization platform of choices for brands, agencies, and content owners.
Mobclix, a mobile ad exchange network, offers an open marketplace platform and account management solutions for app developers.
Manager
2003 - 2008
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company currently employees. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance business and governments. Accenture Technology Labs consists of 150 professionals globally, who have a deep understanding of technology and its impact on businesses. The labs create a vision of how technology will shape the future and invent the next wave of cutting-edge business solutions. Product Manager, Enterprise Management System for Fortune 500 Client -Delivered an Enterprise solution for the management and collection of Enterprise Data -Managed and Created a team in Mumbai for the creation of the enterprise application and maintenance -IP Patent Filing - Filed for a patent on February 14th 2006 creating an innovative way to sell and maintain an extended warranty -Pickberry Vineyard, Sonoma County, CA -Helped architect an internet enabled wireless sensor mesh network for a vineyard in Sonoma County. The vineyard serves as a proof-of-concept to show potential clients real world examples of sensor networks. Starz Entertainment, Englewood, CO Starz Entertainment Group LLC is the largest provider of premium movie services in the United States with approximately 174 million pay units. SEG hired Accenture to create an on-demand premium TV subscription service on the Internet Moderated meetings with Starz employees to understand the steps necessary to distribute a movie -Created the To-Be process flow highlighting the changes needed within Starz to create an internet based media subscription service (Vongo.com). -Designed and developed a media ingest engine to query media information governed by studio license, marketing requirements, media restrictions, and internet schedule.
Accenture Ventures is a venture capital firm arm of Accenture, delivers innovative solutions with strategic partnerships and investments.
Product Manager - Architect
2003 - 2005
Sensitron Inc. develops wireless healthcare innovations to the patient bedside within hospitals. Drove the planning and development of the industry’s first wireless patient bedside monitoring platform. Aligned the vision, expectations, and priorities with senior-level stakeholders. Managed global development teams and marketing campaigns.