SR

Sailesh Ramakrishnan

Managing Partner @ Rocketship.vc. Founder, operator and now Investor. Went to school at Univ of Michigan, UPitt, Virginia Tech, IIT Madras.

Palo Alto, California

Skills

Foreign Investment
Investments
Financial Analysis
Leadership
Product Launch
SEO
Artificial Intelligence
Data Mining
Start-ups
SEM
Search
Product Management
Entrepreneurship
Analytics
Python
Algorithms
Product Development
Business Strategy
SaaS
Social Media

Education

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner

    2014

2011 - 2014

  • Founder, CTO & VP Engineering

    2011 - 2014

    (Acquired by Square)

2011 - 2011

  • Director, Engineering

    2011 - 2011

    Working on exciting apps that combine data mining of social media and retail. We hope to revolutionize how, when, where and what you buy!

2006 - 2011

  • Director, Product Development

    2009 - 2011

  • Director, Engineering

    2007 - 2009

  • Lead, Monetization and Metrics

    2008 - 2008

  • Lead, Traffic and Monetization

    2007 - 2008

    Coordinate traffic and monetization efforts, design and develop Kosmixs' next generation traffic and monetization system, manage monthly traffic and revenue goals.

  • Monetization Lead

    2007 - 2007

    Create the monetization strategy for our products, meet and secure deals with business partners, lead the implementation of new monetization products

  • Member of technical staff

    2006 - 2007

    I have now joined this exciting new startup in the area of vertical search. Check us out at Kosmix.com.

QSS Group Inc- NASA Ames Research Center

2002 - 2006

  • Computer Scientist

    2002 - 2006

    Work on contingency planning for the Mars Rover mission.

  • Research Systems Engineer

    1996 - 2000

    Designed and Developed research software for the computer modeling of cancer. This software was made into a product with a nice GUI, user workshops etc..