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Umesh Khanna

Scout at Andreessen Horowitz

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Umesh Khanna is currently leading new initiatives at Dropbox AI and working as a scout at a16z, with a strong background in product management, entrepreneurship, and finance. With experience at top venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, Umesh has demonstrated leadership and success in driving product innovation and growth in various roles within the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Product & Growth - Dash Enterprise

    2023 - Current

    I started as a new initiatives product lead under the Dropbox AI organization. The new initiative I incubated was Dash for Business, which was then launched in October 2024. I now focus on scaling Dash to win enterprises and broader businesses.

Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.

Raised $1,709,215,000.00 from JP Morgan Chase, RBC Capital, Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Group, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Partners.

  • Scout

    2024

    Select Investments: - Pylon (AI-powered B2B customer support platform) - Datacurve AI (Curated coding data for LLMs) - Hamming AI (Automated AI voice agent testing) - Momentic (AI-powered software test automation) - Flora Fauna (AI-powered infinite creative canvas) - Multimodal (GenAI workflow automation for finance) - Boardy AI (Agentic AI business super connector) - Focal (AI meeting assistant for financial advisors) - Aquila Earth (Wireless energy transmission for clean tech) - Vellum (Collaborative AI workflow development platform) - Chef Robotics (AI-powered robotics for food manufacturing) - Greenlite (AI automation for financial crime compliance) - TextQL (AI agents for enterprise data insights)

Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.

  • Founding Organizer

    2024

    The investor syndicate for current and former Dropbox employees to learn more about ex-Dropboxers and their startups. www.dropboxangels.com Not a sponsored entity from Dropbox, Inc.

  • Scout

    2022 - 2024

    Select Investments: - MirageML (scout check resulted in Sequoia leading seed, acquired by Harvey AI) - Iudex AI (acquired by xAI) - Assort Health (AI for healthcare call centers) - GPTZero (AI-generated content detection tool) - Orchard Robotics (AI-powered precision farming platform) - Coverbase (Automated B2B risk assessment) - Sweep (AI coding assistant for JetBrains IDEs) - Decoda Health (AI-driven medical billing automation)

Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.

  • Product Lead : Underwriting

    2022 - 2023

    2nd product hire

Middesk is an identity platform that automates business verification and underwrites decisions.

Raised $77,000,000.00 from Gaingels, Accel, Canapi Ventures, Insight Partners and Sequoia Capital.

  • Founder

    2022 - 2022

    Incorporation as a Service. Think Stripe Atlas for the 95% of Americans.

  • KP Product Fellow

    2020 - 2022

Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.

  • Founding Product Manager

    2020 - 2022

    1st product hire, employee #13 KP Product Fellow

Nearside provides financial and software services for SMBs.

Raised $73,000,000.00 from Kevin Hartz, Ryan Petersen, Valar Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Michael Ovitz, Jim Breyer and Foundation Capital.

  • Product Manager

    2016 - 2019

    Jan 2016 - Apr 2016: Software Engineering Intern @ TD Bank Sept 2016 - Dec 2016: Solutions Engineering Intern @ Shopify Plus (Added google autocomplete to checkout) May 2017 - Aug 2017: Product Engineering Intern @ Clearbanc (Clearbanc’s first engineering intern) Jan 2018 - Apr 2018: Product Manager on Toast Capital & Analytics @ Toast Inc Jan 2019 - Apr 2019: Product Manager on Monetization @ Credit Karma

  • Product Manager : Flexport Capital

    2018 - 2019

    Went back to school after almost a year to graduate.

Flexport is a full-service global freight forwarder and logistics platform using modern software to fix the user experience in global trade.

Raised $2,699,000,000.00 from Shopify.

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