Snehal Shinde
Founder of Zeni
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Product Officer & Co-founder
2020 - Current
At Zeni, we are revolutionizing business finance with AI-driven automation and intelligent financial agents that act as a company’s bookkeeper, accountant, controller, and CFO— all in one. 🚀 What We Do We provide founders and finance teams with a real-time, AI-powered finance department, handling everything from bookkeeping and accounting to financial planning & analysis (FP&A), bill pay, taxes, and more. Our human-in-the-loop AI agents automate repetitive finance operations, eliminate inefficiencies, and give founders instant access to financial insights—so they can scale faster and make smarter decisions. ⚡ How We’re Different ✅ AI-Powered Automation – Intelligent agents handle complex financial workflows autonomously ✅ Real-Time Financial Insights – Instant visibility into cash flow, burn rate, and financial health ✅ Seamless, End-to-End Finance – From bookkeeping to CFO-level insights in one platform ✅ Built for Startups – Designed for high-growth companies that need speed, accuracy, and scale 📈 $47.5M Raised | Backed by Top Investors | Trusted by 600+ Businesses
General Partner
2018
As Founder & General Partner at Twin Ventures, I back exceptional founders building category-defining companies at the intersection of AI, software, and frontier tech. 📌 Recent Portfolio Highlights: • Observe.AI – Voice AI for call centers • Sanas – Real-time voice/accent translation • Sibros – Connected vehicle data • Ixana – AI chip for AR headsets • Flam – AI-powered 3D content • Matic – Smart-home robotics by ex-Google founders • Zeni – AI finance team for SMBs • SecurityPal – Auto-completed security questionnaires • Daloopa – AI-generated financial models • Newport Robotics – Autonomous trucking retrofit kits • Credibl – Sustainability & compliance platform • A79 – No-code AI agent builder • Zamp – Sales tax automation • FirstHive – First-party customer data platform • Clazar – Cloud marketplace automation • Sesame Labs – AI-native ad platform • Hirefly – AI hiring assistant • CreatorDAO – Creator investment backed by a16z • ODDR – Invoice-to-cash automation • Alpen Labs – Stablecoin lending protocol • Loop – Shopify subscription tools • Hammoq – Automation for eComm resellers • Zuma – AI leasing assistant • Avoma – AI meeting assistant • Beans.AI – Last 100m delivery infrastructure • Verisim Life – Simulated clinical trials • Meemo – Social finance app (acq. by Coinbase) • XOR – Conversational AI for recruiting • Chime – Smart chai brewing (IoT) • DataSine – AI content personalization (acq. by Shutterstock) • Shoptimze – Commerce optimization (acq. by Graas) • Pawsh – Personalized pet grooming • GenePath – Molecular diagnostics platform Co-investors include a16z, Insight Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, Saama Capital, and The General Partnership.
Twin Ventures is an AI-focused Angel Investors that builds and fosters AI-first startups.
Vice President, Product Management
2018 - 2020
Amex acquired Mezi for $125M in Jan 2018. Took the Mezi mission forward post-acquisition. Focused on integrating Mezi within the flagship Amex mobile app and scaling the Mezi platform to 10 million users across 8 countries and grew the organization to 100+ employees.
American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. provides financial and travel related services for consumers and companies.
Chief Product Officer, CTO & Co-founder
2015 - 2018
Co-owns and drives the overall vision and business strategy in addition to leading the overall Product and Technology efforts. Mezi is revolutionizing travel by giving you an AI assistant for all your travel needs. Just say where you want to go and Mezi helps you make it happen -- from booking your flight and hotel, to figuring out what to do, to handling your online check-in or changes of plans, to being your on-the-ground guide when you arrive. All through a simple messaging app. Artificial intelligence is on the bleeding edge of technology, and we believe that the world has yet to be shown how it fits into their lives. Mezi aims to invent what that means for the everyday person. We envision a world where anyone can travel with the ease and confidence knowing they have an assistant in their pocket wherever they go.
Mezi is an AI-powered personal travel assistant, accessible 24x7, over messaging.
Raised $11,800,000.00 from Nexus Venture Partners, Saama Capital, American Express Ventures, Amit Singhal and Block, Inc..
Advisor
2015 - 2015
Advice on International / Emerging Markets Business & Product Strategy
Vice President, Emerging Markets
2014 - 2015
Responsible for running Rdio across India and Emerging markets Overseeing P&L, Business Development, Sales and Marketing
Co-founder, President & CTO
2013 - 2014
CEO and Co-founder
2011 - 2013
Product Management
2009 - 2011
Lead the Product Management for Social Sharing Initiatives across all key Yahoo! Media properties like News, Movies, Finance and Sports. Also lead the company’s Open APIs initiative for getting media properties on Mobile. • Lead Y! Media Social Sharing widget/platform integration on all Y! Media properties (Finance, News, TV, Movies, Music, OMG - having 5-6 billion widget views per month) • Enabling easy sharing across Facebook and Twitter, tracking clicks & shares, providing real time analytics. Provide a single version for social sharing and social analytics • Localization of the products across 12 languages • Talking to different y! media properties, convincing them to use our product and stick to one standard • Lead Y! Open APIs for Mobile and Web: coming up with open API standards, market research on how other major players are doing it (NYTimes, Flickr, Google etc). Meeting with leads from major Y! Media properties, getting them to use the standards & pushing for the right way of building open APIs across all properties. These Open APIs are now used by Y! Mobile, Y! Tech and Y! Apps on iPhone and iPad • Lead Y! Media Read Me Later product: market research on already existing players in this domain, build a case to chose the right option: build our own or acquire an existing player
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.
Technical Yahoo!
2006 - 2008
Worked as a Technical Yahoo! / Software Engineer in Yahoo! News, Media Engineering department. • Built highly scalable, reliable software for dynamic news websites and backend servers • Lead a new initiative ‘People of the Web’ that was part of Yahoo News! Sites. Oversaw the backend design and development and made sure all goals were reached and tracked properly. • Implemented highly scalable Memory and File based Caching technologies for fast information retrieval using PHP/C++ and Design Patterns • Designed and Developed different backend modules and web services using XML, Design Patterns, PHP, Apache and MySQL. • Designed normalized Database Schemas for highly scalable backend servers, replicating these databases using MySQL replications on FreeBSD Servers • Developed and refined the middle tire business logic for Yahoo News Servers using PHP, XML, Web Services and MySQL • Generalized the Most Popular (Most Emailed and Most Recommended) modules so that they can be used across Yahoo Media Engineering groups
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.
Sr. Engineer
2004 - 2006
Email Filtering Company
Raised $35,000,000.00 from TCV, Crosslink Capital, NortonLifeLock, Critical Path, Accel, Opportunity Capital Partners, Esther Dyson, Bill Joy and Thomas Weisel Partners.
Software Engineer
2003 - 2004
Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.