RK

Rohit Krishnan

Building an AI ready data platform | Speaking, writing, advising startups |

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $10,000,000.00

Lists including Rohit

Work Experience

2024

  • Chief Product Officer

    2024

  • Board Member

    2023

    Tinkering: https://marquisdepolis.github.io/projects/

2023 - 2024

  • Co-Founder and CPO

    2023 - 2024

    Built the product: "Expert on the shoulder" AI for advanced manufacturing, from design to simulation. Exit.

2019 - 2023

  • Director

    2019 - 2023

    Partnering with extraordinary technology companies wherever they are, building the next 100 year products

2016 - 2018

  • Vice President

    2016 - 2018

    Focused on enterprise startups in data, security, and analytics. Some investments include Duco, Threat Stack, Hibob, OTA Insight, Decibel Insight, Appsflyer.

2011 - 2016

  • Europe Lead, McKinsey Fast Growth Tech

    2015 - 2016

    Market Lead for McKinsey’s 'Growth Tech' Practice (partnering with leading growth stage tech players, VCs, and growth PE).

  • Engagement Manager

    2011 - 2015

    Building multiple products and services at the nexus of technology and business: • Sales reorg for B2B vertical SaaS company, helping increase their sales efficiency by changing salesforce compensation structure, immediately driving ROI with 10% higher up/cross-sell • Enterprise product restruct for FinTech company by 50% refocusing sales features • Helped design new enterprise GTM model for growth stage B2B SaaS business driving >2x ACV growth • Created proprietary technology solution to analyze company performance across sectors, and identifying key strategies that helps companies succeed

2008 - 2010

  • Founder

    2008 - 2010

    • Built an algo-investment software product to analyze anomalous pricing patterns; sold to large financial enterprises incl bulge brackets, morphed into hedge fund post financial crisis • Delivered 141% return in 1.5 years during credit crisis: outperformed other hedge fund indices by 140% • Full featured product that crafted investment approach by modeling macroeconomic scenarios, focusing in select equities, commodity derivatives and key indices taking advantage of macro instabilities

2005 - 2006

  • Founder

    2005 - 2006

    Developed and successfully commercialised a product enabling large scale high speed file transfer within distributed systems, such as data centers or enterprises. Exited.