YD

Yash Doshi

Investor

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2023 - Current

    Investing in revolutionary early-stage founders with Immad Akhund, Founder/CEO of Mercury. Portfolio includes Airtable, Rippling, Rappi, Applied Intuition, Substack, Linear, and more.

  • Early Stage Investor

    2018

    Investor in early-stage startups in B2B SaaS, fintech, dev tools, marketplaces, AI, and more, alongside investors like a16z, Sequoia, Founder's Fund, and more.

  • Seed Investor

    2017

    Modern banking and financial workflows trusted by over 200k companies.

  • Investor

    2022 - 2023

    Backing mission-driven founders building startups in B2B SaaS, fintech, and more.

  • Marketing

    2022 - 2023

    Securing modern enterprises with a data tracing platform for files and unstructured data.

  • Investor

    2019 - 2020

    Investing in & supporting ambitious founders on their journeys to global success.

  • Consultant

    2018 - 2019

    Early-stage fund founded by Facebook alumni. Evaluated investments, performed portfolio/fund analysis, and developed key insights to improve performance and dealflow.

  • Associate & Chief of Staff

    2017 - 2018

    Early-stage venture capital for extraordinary entrepreneurs building mission-driven technology companies. Served as Chief of Staff to Founding Partner, Andrew Trader (serial entrepreneur & co-founder of Zynga). Originated and/or helped execute investments in companies like Mercury, Atrium, Finiata, Full Harvest, Synapse Technology, and more.

  • Product Management & Marketing

    2014 - 2014

    Executed growth marketing strategy re: conversion rate optimization and re-designed core product dashboards. • Created and executed an A/B testing strategy that Improved Skyhigh's website conversions by 300%. I leveraged Google Analytics, Optimizely, and Qualaroo to run experiments on copy, image, CTA, and form field variations. • Created several marketing content pieces on cloud security and compliance; One piece consequently garnered 150,000+ views as a feature on BusinessInsider.com. • Researched dashboard interfaces & designed mockups with UX changes to core product dashboard. Skyhigh Networks' cloud security software helps businesses discover the services employees are using, analyze risk, and enforce security policies. Skyhigh Networks is funded by Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, and Salesforce Ventures.

  • Growth Product Management

    2013 - 2013

    Worked with Madison Reed's founders to build digital products, craft launch strategy, & recruit the founding engineering & design team. • Increased onboarding flow's engagement by 40%, by conducting user testing, analyzing qualitative & quantitative data from 50+ users to understand their problems & desires, and implementing learnings to re-design improved mockups & interaction flows. • Successfully sourced 2 senior-level technical hires in 6 weeks, via running various online & offline guerilla experiments • Sourced a key partnership deal for product distribution with Wrapp. Madison Reed is a beauty products e-commerce startup that's transforming the hair care market with professional formulations & digital technology to deliver a superior user experience. Madison Reed is funded by Comcast Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, True Ventures, and Maveron.

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