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Gururaj Pandurangi
Member #16FounderBetaL1CEO & Founder, ThriveStack
CEO & Founder, ThriveStack (citedby and Revenue Intelligence)
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About
Gururaj Pandurangi is CEO and Founder of ThriveStack, a Seattle-based company that builds citedby, an AI visibility and answer engine optimization platform, along with Revenue Intelligence, which connects product, billing and CRM data to help software companies reduce churn. Before ThriveStack, Gururaj founded and led Cloudneeti, which was acquired by Zscaler. Earlier he founded Avyan Corp and worked as a development manager at Microsoft.
Raises & exits
Member RaisesCapital raised
Cloudneeti
$505K
Exits
Hall of Fame →$8.9M
Cloudneeti was acquired by Zscaler in April 2020 for $8.9M, plus up to $6M in restricted stock for employees who joined Zscaler.
Experience
VP, Public Cloud Infrastructure Security · Zscaler
CEO & Founder (Acquired by Zscaler) · Cloudneeti
CEO and Founder · Avyan Corp
Education
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C - Dac)
Center for Software Engineering Excellence (Csee)
Maharashtra Institute of Technology
Savitribai Phule Pune University
University of Pune
University of Washington
