KS

Kahini Shah

Partner @ Obvious Ventures

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $8,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $4,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2024

    Investing in purpose driven early stage AI founders

  • Principal

    2022 - 2024

  • AI Phase II Reviewer

    2020

2019 - 2022

  • Investor @ Gradient Ventures

    2019 - 2022

    Google’s AI-focused early-stage venture capital fund Excited to partner with: - UnitQ (Series A): product quality monitoring using NLP - 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)

2015 - 2017

  • Lead Associate

    2016 - 2017

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

  • Associate

    2015 - 2016

2011 - 2015

  • 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) and machine learning engineer.

  • Software Engineer

    2011 - 2012

  • Research Intern

    2011 - 2011

    Engineering Graphene to filter out sunlight for particle sensors.