The companies I’ve worked with, and what I did there

Anyone can put logos on a page. So each company here has its own page: who founded it, who backed it, whom I worked with there, what I did, and where every number comes from.

The companies, and what I did there

The mobile linking platform behind apps like Reddit, Instacart and NBC.

Founded at Stanford by

Alex Austin, Mada Seghete, Mike Molinet and Dmitri Gaskin

Backed by

NEA, Founders Fund

Founders Fund led its 2016 round

What I did

Owned demand generation across paid, lifecycle and the website, and built the reporting the team ran on.

Branch is trusted by

Reddit

Instacart

Shopify

Nordstrom

Credit Karma

Under Armour

T-Mobile

Warner Bros

BuzzFeed

Strava

Chipotle

Headspace

Puma

Grubhub

NBC

Philips

Artists I worked with at FrontRow (followers on Instagram, Sep 2026)

Suresh Raina

25.4M

Zakir Khan

5.5M

MortaL

5.4M

Dharmesh

4.8M

Raftaar

3.8M

Punit J. Pathak

2.5M

Divine

2.4M

Melvin Louis

2.1M

Kr$na

900K

Amit Trivedi

629K

Biswa

411K

Varun Grover

306K

Artists I worked with at FrontRow (followers on Instagram, Sep 2026)

Suresh Raina

25.4M

Zakir Khan

5.5M

MortaL

5.4M

Dharmesh

4.8M

Raftaar

3.8M

Punit J. Pathak

2.5M

Divine

2.4M

Melvin Louis

2.1M

Kr$na

900K

Amit Trivedi

629K

Biswa

411K

Varun Grover

306K

Founders of the companies I’ve worked with

Branch (both Stanford)

FrontRow (IIT Delhi; Forbes India 30 Under 30, 2021)

Cintana Education (founder of Laureate Education)

Tectonic (formerly Myntra and Flipkart)

SafeDep (formerly Chargebee)

Middleware (formerly Maersk and Uber)

Investors behind these companies include:

NEA, Founders Fund, Playground Global, Lightspeed, Elevation Capital, Eight Roads, GSV, Sterling Partners, the World Bank Group’s IFC, Grayscale Ventures, Accel and MassMutual Ventures.

$4B

Branch’s valuation when it raised $300M

100,000+

apps and brands on Branch since 2014

330,000+

students in the ASU-Cintana Alliance

2M

FrontRow downloads, and 250,000+ paying learners

$17.2M

what FrontRow raised in 2020 and 2021

$12.8M

what Testsigma has raised

$20M

Grayscale Ventures’ Fund I target, with $10M at first close

$4B

Branch’s valuation when it raised $300M

100,000+

apps and brands on Branch since 2014

330,000+

students in the ASU-Cintana Alliance

2M

FrontRow downloads, and 250,000+ paying learners

$17.2M

what FrontRow raised in 2020 and 2021

$12.8M

what Testsigma has raised

$20M

Grayscale Ventures’ Fund I target, with $10M at first close

$4B

Branch’s valuation when it raised $300M

100,000+

apps and brands on Branch since 2014

330,000+

students in the ASU-Cintana Alliance

2M

FrontRow downloads, and 250,000+ paying learners

$17.2M

what FrontRow raised in 2020 and 2021

$12.8M

what Testsigma has raised

$20M

Grayscale Ventures’ Fund I target, with $10M at first close

If you’d like to talk through your growth, I’d be glad to.