Kahini Shah
Partner at Obvious Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Research Intern
2011 - 2011
Engineering Graphene to filter out sunlight for particle sensors.