Kahini Shah

Partner

2024

Principal

2022

Obvious is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage, purpose-driven entrepreneurs.

Board Member

2023

Board Member

2023

AI Phase II Reviewer

2020

Review Artificial Intelligence & Data Science proposals eligible for $1M of funding.

Investor @ Gradient Ventures

2019 - 2022

Google’s AI-focused early-stage venture capital fund investing. Investments - UnitQ (Series A): product quality monitoring using NLP - Tandym (Pre-seed & Seed): private label credit card platform - Lambda Labs (Series A): GPU workstations and cloud - Heyday Health (Seed): in-home primary care for seniors - SayMine (Series A): data privacy & GDPR compliance - Fragment (Pre-seed): database for money - Dropbase (Pre-seed): no-code data centralization and transformation - Astro (Pre-Seed): Open source framework to speed up websites - Hugo (Seed): AI enabled notetaking (acq. Calendly) - Iteratively (Seed): product analytics tracking plan (acq. Amplitude) - Myst.ai (Series A) : Al for time series data (acq. Snowflake)

Board Observer

2020 - 2022

Board Observer

2019 - 2022

Lead Associate

2016 - 2017

Product manager and business development for AI platform and services providing natural language processing (search, content recommendations and chatbots) capabilities to federal and health clients. Created solutions clients like recreation.gov, benefits.gov, NIH and more.

Associate

2015 - 2016

Engineering Leadership Development Program

2012 - 2015

Three year corporate rotational leadership program for high potential employees; worked as an embedded systems engineer (Iridium NEXT satellite constellation), machine learning engineer and scrum master.

Software Engineer

2011 - 2012