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Laks Srini

Chief Technology Officer at Flyhomes

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Laks Srini is the CTO at Flyhomes in San Francisco, known for his leadership roles at Zerodown and Zenefits. With a background in web services and diverse programming languages, he has invested in various startups across different sectors and stages in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2024 - Current

Flyhomes provides a real estate brokerage platform that helps clients through the entire home buying process.

Raised $310,000,000.00 from Canvas Ventures, Parker89, Vesta Ventures, Fifth Wall, BAM Elevate, Spencer Rascoff, Battery Ventures, Camber Creek, Balyasny Asset Management and Andreessen Horowitz.

  • Co-founder and CTO

    2018 - 2024

    Zero Down is an affordable homeownership solution in the Bay Area. Homeownership here — even thinking of it—has become financially impractical. We end up paying rent as a cheaper, but wasteful alternative. Here's what we propose: We buy the home you want, you move in without a down-payment, and instead of paying rent to your landlord, you pay us towards owning your house. In short, you build ownership in your home every month. Home equity vests to you monthly, just like stock options at your workplace. Sign up at https://zerodown.com and write to us at founders@zerodown.com.

ZeroDown is a real estate startup that focuses on providing an affordable homeownership solution.

Raised $136,000,000.00 from Credit Suisse.

  • Co Founder and CTO

    2013 - 2018

    Benefits. Payroll. HR. Outsource all of it in seconds. Zenefits connects with your existing payroll and benefits in seconds, or sets them up for you.

Zenefits delivers a complete, all-mobile HR experience for small and medium businesses.

Raised $584,100,000.00 from TriplePoint Ventures and Unanimous Capital.

  • Software Developer

    2011 - 2013

SigFig is financial services firm that dedicates in making high-quality investment advice to investors of all wealth levels.

Raised $119,500,000.00 from New York Life Insurance, Eaton Vance Management, UBS, Nyca Partners, Union Square Ventures, DCM Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures and General Atlantic.

  • Project Leader

    2005 - 2011

  • Intern

    2004 - 2005

    Microsoft Office Automation - Corrupted documents (MS Word) scanner, Add-in for managing, copying Outlook views and a customized content management tool of sorts with fuzzy match and a modified Levenshtien edit distance algorithms for review and merge.

D. E. Shaw & Co. is a global investment and technology development firm.

  • Summer Intern

    2004 - 2004

    Developed a preliminary model and algorithm for "Verification of two party Contract Signing Protocols for Fairness."

  • Intern, Technology Management Group

    2003 - 2003

    Developed Smart e-Manuals system, a paperless information management system proof-of-concept for factory floor troubleshooting. Developed proof-of -concept internet search tool-bar and search web services that would help expose the above system to the users seamlessly,

An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.

  • Intern, IT

    2001 - 2001

    Developed an automated system for extraction, transformation and loading of bulk information for an Insurance client.

Covansys Corporation was a global consulting and technology services company.

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