Krishna Mehra

Krishna Mehra is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and engineering leader with a strong track record in building, scaling, and mentoring category-defining product companies.

He has a successful background in leading cross-functional teams encompassing engineering, product, design, and go-to-market strategies, with a focus on delivering products that resonate with consumers and businesses.

Krishna started and successfully exited two companies across various sectors such as Enterprise SaaS, AI, Business Analytics, and B2C Marketplaces, raising over $100MM in venture capital from renowned investors like Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, AmEx, Qualcomm, and Warburg Pincus, creating significant enterprise value of ~$750MM.

With experience in managing engineering, product, and design teams of over 100 professionals, Krishna has launched innovative products, ventured into new markets, and forged key partnerships with Fortune 100 companies. Additionally, he holds authorship of 10 US Patents.

As a distinguished professional, Krishna has been invited to speak at prestigious institutions like Harvard Business School, The Wharton School, and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He also serves as a mentor at 500 Startups and Alchemist Accelerator and was honored with the Young Alumni Achiever Award by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2018.

Krishna's specialties cover a wide range of areas including AI, algorithms, analytics, apache spark, APIs, apps, architecture, big data, corporate strategy, CRM, data analytics, data engineering, digital media, distributed systems, engineering leadership, entrepreneurship, finance, full-stack, hadoop, hiring, Kubernetes, machine learning, marketplaces, mobile, OKRs, payments, recruitment, SaaS metrics, subscription management, technology, user experience design, web development, and more.

He pursued his education in Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, following which he has held key roles in organizations like Cohesity, Taro, Capillary Technologies Inc., Microsoft Research, and Minekey.