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Hiten Shah
Founder of Nira
Redwood City, California
Overview
Hiten Shah is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nira, based in Redwood City, California. With a background in product management and entrepreneurship, he has successfully co-founded and led companies like Crazy Egg and FYI, and has made impactful investments in startups like Truebill and Loom.
Shah's career highlights include his leadership roles at KISSmetrics and Nira, where he has demonstrated expertise in SaaS, analytics, and digital marketing, and his investments in innovative startups, contributing to the growth of companies like Density and Clearbit.
Work Experience
Product & Growth - AI Products
2024 - Current
Growth - AI Products
2024 - 2024
Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
Raised $1,709,215,000.00 from JP Morgan Chase, RBC Capital, Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Group, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Partners.
Co-Owner
2005
Crazy Egg is a heat mapping tool that designers, marketers, product people and business owners use to improve the effectiveness of their websites.
Crazy Egg allows website owners to create tests to figure out what users are doing on their site.
Co-Founder and CEO
2021 - 2024
Nira is a Data Access Governance (DAG) Platform. Prioritizing DAG has become imperative for organizations deploying AI chatbots like Google's Gemini or Copilot for Microsoft 365. DAG focuses on managing and monitoring who has access to specific data within an organization and establishing clear protocols for how this data is classified and handled. Within platforms like Google Drive, Slack, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams, it’s not uncommon for hundreds of thousands—or even tens of millions—of company files to be shared and accessed by employees. Employees typically have access to sensitive data without a clear understanding of its confidentiality level, and often without even realizing they have access to the data in the first place. This oversight can pose significant security risks, particularly as AI chatbots require extensive access to organizational data to be effective. Before giving Gemini or Copilot the keys to the kingdom – all Google and Microsoft documents, emails, calendars, presentations, contacts, meetings, and more – implementing a robust Data Access Governance program is paramount. This approach minimizes potential security breaches and ensures that your organization’s data handling practices comply with relevant regulations and standards, safeguarding valuable company information.
Co-Founder and CEO
2018 - 2021
Before discovering the opportunity for Nira, we had created FYI. It was an enterprise search product that connected to two dozen SaaS apps and helped you find documents in 3 clicks or less.
Board Member
2008 - 2015
Co-Founder and CEO
2008 - 2014
KISSmetrics is a SaaS web and mobile analytics software.
Kissmetrics offers behavioral analytics and segmentation across both website and product
Raised $16,390,185.00 from Polaris Partners, True Ventures, Azure Capital Partners, Polaris Partners, Felicis, True Ventures, Azure Capital Partners, Cameron Lester and Signatures Capital.
Co-Founder
2002 - 2008
Education
BS
1998 - 2003