Keval Desai

Keval Desai is Founder & Managing Director at SHAKTI, an early stage tech venture firm. Earlier he was GP at InterWest Partners. Some of his early stage investments include Canva, The RealReal, Pipedrive, Vungle, Gatik.ai, Abacus.ai, Swiftly, Backblaze, Aidaptive, Queenly, Cuyana, Postmates, Zindi, and others. Previously, Desai held product & engineering leadership roles at Google, Digg, Global Village Communications & Tandem Computers. He also co-founded Achex, a venture backed online payment company sold to First Data Corp. He has a BE (Electrical Engineering), MS (Computer Science) & MBA.