Parul Singh

Partner

2021

Partner at Initialized Capital. Product-driven founder ❤️ Backing high-growth SaaS, health tech and analytics founders. Aiming to bring more transparency to venture capital & more pie to founders 🥧 Essays: parulsingh.com Email: parul.substack.com: Twitter: @parulia

Interim COO

2021 - 2021

Principal

2016 - 2021

Seed stage investor focusing on consumer, digital health, and enterprise SaaS. In my role, I meet and support founders and help determine what investments we make. Sourced or helped close our investments in Pillpack, Alyce, Broadlume (fmr AdHawk), Embark Veterinary, Flume Health, Hawthorne, HealthNote, ShopShops, Smalls, and uLesson. Led diligence on 45+ investments over 4+ years. Covered NYC for our firm for 3 years. Designed our system to track and monitor deal flow. Hired, trained and managed 9 amazing MBA associates.

Data Science Lecturer

2016 - 2016

Lecturer at Level, a full-time data science certificate program at Northeastern University. Developed curriculum materials and designed Level's assessment strategy. Taught statistical methods, regression, R, SQL, and Tableau, and supervised students' capstone projects.

Founder & CEO

2012 - 2016

Gradeable is a learning analytics company for K-12 schools. Students can get feedback on a proof, project or poem, as they do not learn as effectively via standardized tests. Early customers included Teach for America and Providence, RI Public Schools.

MBA Associate

2011 - 2012

Participated in diligence and sourcing for investments.

Program Manager

2008 - 2010

Fellow and later ran the Boston chapter of the Startup Leadership Program, a cohort based networking group for founders and investors. Led expansion from Boston to 2 additional cities.

Senior Product Manager

2008 - 2010

Led technical product management for our agency and publisher products, which tracked in-house and earned video engagement and metrics across UGC video properties. Managed client relationships with agencies and film studio clients.

Product Manager, Video & Podcasts

2006 - 2008

Oversaw front page video player, photos and podcasts, including monetization, UI, and advertising partnerships. Worked on diligence of NYT investment in Brightcove, led video syndication across properties including YouTube, Facebook, JetBlue, Yahoo News, and the AP. Increased video traffic by 300% and slideshows revenue by 550% over 20 months .

Senior Full Stack Developer

2004 - 2006

Replaced a team of 5 developers after layoff and acquisition of the company by Bertelsmann. Responsible for maintaining Perl, email server, and web content applications, managing CMS and developing new web applications in collaboration with the editorial teams. Monitored website for outages, security breaches, and user issues, including sharing beeper duty. After subsequent acquisition of the company by Mansueto Ventures, led server, software, and hosting provider migration, including selection of new vendors, hiring and overseeing a team of 3 engineers and several contractors, and maintaining uptime throughout.