Prayag Narula
Founder of Marvin
Oakland, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and CEO
2020 - Current
We help companies better understand their customers and build more a customer-centric product and cultures.
Marvin is a qualitative user research platform that elevates the voice of your customers so you design exactly what they need.
Raised $3,800,000.00 from Scrum Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Bragiel Brothers, The House Fund, Fuel Capital, Hack VC, Gaingels, Apollo Projects and 10X Capital.
Co-Founder & Board Member
2017
President & Board Member
2018 - 2020
Chief Executive Officer
2011 - 2018
LeadGenius is a demand generation automation company that use a combination of data mining, technology and crowdsourcing to automate and accelerate outbound sales and marketing for hundreds of mid-market and enterprise companies from around the world. We provide our clients access to highly accurate, very customized and actionable lead data to do highly targeted and personalized outreach to its prospect. We help our customers go after completely new markets or help them augment their existing data to help accelerate their sales cycles. We also provide our clients tools to do highly automated, personalized, data-driven and very scalable outreach via emails. LeadGenius is backed by some of the most prominent investors in Silicon Valley including Sierra Ventures, Kapor Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, 500Startups, Sam Altman, Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian, Paul Bucchiet, Aaron Levie among many others. We are hiring: www.leadgenius.com/careers/
LeadGenius is an end-to-end sales solution that provides companies with a way to generate, qualify, deliver, and convert leads.
Raised $30,387,681.00 from 500 Global.
Graduate Student Instructor
2010 - 2011
In Spring 2011, I assisted Prof. Bjoern Haartman in teaching User Interface Design at the Computer Science Department. In Fall 2010, I assisted Prof. Scott Shenker in teaching Computer Networks at the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department.
Researcher, Ubiquitous Interaction Group
2009 - 2010
Worked on Human Computer Interaction projects with partners from across Europe. Developed a museum installation for children visiting the Museum of Science, Naples, Italy. Working in academia I learned the rigors of scientific methods and reporting.
Development Engineer Embedded Systems
2007 - 2009
I worked on multiple projects involving Mobile Technology, multimedia services and VOIP and Video streaming Initiated the Mobile Software Development services along with the key people in the company Founded the Social Initiative wing of the company working with AID, India
Research Intern
2007 - 2007
I was one of the 21 international students selected for research internship at ITRI. I was given an opportunity to work on Nokia's Open C technology which is based on Symbian's PIPS. I ported an open source local caching web-proxy from Linux to Symbian.
Intern
2006 - 2006
Developed a few smart card applications on the Java Smartcard Platform