Umesh Khanna
Scout at Andreessen Horowitz
San Francisco, California
Overview
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.
Founder
2025
Nominate your favorite angel at www.fdangels.com
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) - 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) - Blacksmith.sh (The fastest way to run your GitHub Actions)
Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.
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.
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 : 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.
Internships
2016 - 2018
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
Co-Founder
2015 - 2016
Helping those who are vitamin deficient (like myself) to live life easier with monitoring provided by a single drop of blood. Think Theranos, but it's portable and works.