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Shishir Mehrotra

Founder of Coda

Los Altos, California

Overview 

Shishir Mehrotra is the Co-Founder and CEO of Coda, with a background as the Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer at YouTube at Google. His career highlights include leading product management teams at Google and Microsoft, as well as founding Centrata and serving as its CEO and Board Member. Currently, Shishir is driving innovation at Coda, a role that follows his impactful tenure at Google overseeing product development and technology. His investment portfolio includes notable companies like Descript, PlanetScale, and Cult.fit, reflecting his keen eye for promising startups across various sectors.

Work Experience 

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Grammarly

  • CEO

    2025 - Current

    We are redefining how work gets done by building the AI productivity platform for apps and agents. Our products serve millions of users and tens of thousands of companies. Note: Grammarly and Coda merged in late 2024 (read more here: https://bit.ly/4fVja3V), and are working on some amazing new updates - stay tuned!

Grammarly is the trusted AI assistant for communication and productivity.

Raised $400,000,000.00 from Baillie Gifford and BlackRock.

grammarly.com
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Spotify

  • Board Member

    2017

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Coda

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2014 - 2025

    The all-in-one platform for businesses. Blends the flexibility of docs, structure of spreadsheets, power of applications, and intelligence of AI... so anyone can make a doc as powerful as an app.

Coda is a document collaboration platform that brings data and teams together.

Raised $240,000,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, General Catalyst, Greylock, Alumni Ventures, Underscore VC, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Castor Ventures and Madrona.

coda.io
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Google

  • YouTube - Chief Product Officer / Chief Technology Officer

    2008 - 2014

    Responsible for YouTube Product, Engineering, and User Experience teams including consumer, content creator, and monetization functions. Helped grow YouTube to the world's largest video destination, one of Google's largest and fastest growing businesses, and the platform of choice for a new generation of video creators.

  • GoogleTV - Director of Product Management

    2008 - 2008

    Co-founded interactive TV project to bring the internet to TVs and TV-connected devices.

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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Microsoft

  • Director of Program Management

    2002 - 2008

    Worked on SQL Server, Windows (WinFS project), Office, and Dynamics

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

about.ads.microsoft.com

Centrata

  • Founding CEO, Board Member

    2000 - 2002

    Software to help turn data centers into "utilities". Funded by Vinod Khosla at Kleiner Perkins.

Education 

Investments 

Config

Seed

Total funding: $5M

Arta Finance

Series A

Total funding: $90M

Luminai

Series A

Total funding: $19M

XMTP

Series A

Total funding: $25M

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