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Carson Kahn

Founder & CPO @ Spindle AI | Engineer | Goldman Sachs 100 Entrepreneur | Builder

San Francisco, California

Angel
Advisor
Founder
Former CEO

Invests in

Stages:

Seed
Pre-seed

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $250,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $10,000.00

Skills

Machine Learning
Product Management
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Product Development
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
User Experience
Business Strategy
Venture Capital
Distributed Systems
Content Strategy
Brand Architecture
Copywriting
Web Development
Web Analytics
Graphic Design
Digital Media
Agile Project Management
Entrepreneurship
Start-ups
Strategy

Education

Work Experience

Spindle AI (spindle.ai)

2021

  • Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

    2021

    Seeded with >$6.5 million from Accel Partners (Slack/Dropbox/Atlassian), Caffeinated Capital (Airtable/RevOps/Notion), Stanford University, and diverse Fortune 100 executives, Spindle AI is your intelligent copilot for scenario planning. Our enterprise-grade platform equips every RevOps, Sales, BizOps, and FP&A stakeholder with their own virtual data scientist to generate scenarios, compare “what‑ifs”, pressure-test trade‑offs, and more. Don’t just forecast the future — shape it, with Spindle. › Hiring ML engineers, full-stack developers, operations research engineers, and UX designers. Email me: carson@spindle.ai

Stanford University

2020

  • Stanford AII Advisory Board

    2020

Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism

2019

  • Senior Advisor, Machine Learning for Counterintelligence

    2019

Techstars

2014

  • Angel Investor

    2014

Brainspace 🔸Acquired by Reveal (Q4’20)

2020 - 2020

  • President

    2020 - 2020

Volley AI – In Residence at JPMorgan

2014 - 2019

  • CEO

    2017 - 2019

  • CTO & Founder

    2014 - 2017

Keystone Learning Systems

2011 - 2014

  • Head of Product (Acquired)

    2011 - 2014

Vetica Interactive Inc (now Chalk.com)

2010 - 2012

  • Product & Growth, Draftboard (Acquired)

    2010 - 2012

Google

2009 - 2010

  • Externship

    2009 - 2010

    (via Digital Currents Fellowship, ATLAS Institute)