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Kahini Shah

Partner at Obvious Ventures

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Kahini Shah is a Partner at Obvious Ventures, with a background in artificial intelligence, product management, and venture capital. She has held leadership roles at notable organizations like Google and Booz Allen Hamilton, and currently serves on the boards of GenHealth.ai and DarwinAI. With an impressive educational background including degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and The Wharton School, Kahini Shah has extensive experience in AI, strategy, and software development. As a Partner at Obvious Ventures, she focuses on investing in early-stage companies in sectors like AI, consumer internet, and enterprise, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

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Obvious Ventures

  • Partner

    2024 - Current

    Investing in purpose driven early stage AI founders Excited to partner with: - Genhealth.ai (seed) - Stealth AI agents (seed) - Stealth AI infra (seed) - DarwinAI (seed) - Lynx (A)

  • Principal

    2022 - 2024

Investing in entrepreneurs who are reimagining trillion-dollar industries across planetary, human, and economic health.

obvious.com
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National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • AI Phase II Reviewer

    2020

National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency that supports research and education in the fields of science and engineering.

nsf.gov
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Google

  • 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)

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

google.com
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Booz Allen Hamilton

  • 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

Booz Allen Hamilton is a consulting firm that specializes in analytics, technology, and engineering.

Raised $2,378,460,000.00.

boozallen.com
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Lockheed Martin

  • 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

Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company specialized in advanced technology systems, products and services.

Raised $62,016,440.00 from Air Force Research Laboratory, United States Air Force, NYSERDA and NYSERDA.

lockheedmartin.com
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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

  • Research Intern

    2011 - 2011

    Engineering Graphene to filter out sunlight for particle sensors.

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