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Advait Shinde
Member #187FounderBetaL2Founder, GoGuardian
Founder, GoGuardian, $1b edtech
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About
Advait Shinde is the co-founder and chairperson of GoGuardian, an education technology company that builds classroom management, content filtering and student safety tools for K-12 schools. Before starting GoGuardian in 2014, Advait was a software engineer at Google, where he worked on Google Wallet and Bluetooth LE. At GoGuardian he was CTO, then became CEO in 2017. On GitHub he shares side projects, including an AlphaZero-style Connect Four neural network written in Rust and trained through self-play.
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Raises & exits
Member Raises$200M+
Led by Tiger Global
GoGuardian raised $200M from Tiger Global (2021), after Sumeru Equity Partners took a majority stake (2018).
Exits
Hall of Fame →$1B
Sumeru Equity Partners bought a majority stake in GoGuardian in 2018 (terms undisclosed at the time). GoGuardian's August 2021 $200M investment from Tiger Global valued the company at well over $1 billion, so the exit is listed at $1B.
Experience
Co-Founder at GoGuardian
Co-Founder and Chairperson · GoGuardian
Co-Founder and Exec Chairman · Goguardian
Advisor and Investor · UpKeep Maintenance Management (YC W17)
Advisor and Investor · UpKeep
CEO · GoGuardian
Chief Executive Officer · GoGuardian
Chief Technical Officer · GoGuardian
CTO · GoGuardian
Education
University of California, Los Angeles
