Team
Naveen Koorakula, founder, CEONaveen loves talking to real users, understanding their needs, designing products that make their lives better, and building technology to bring these products to life. He previously built search engines and grid systems at Powerset, Yahoo, Inktomi and Fastforward Networks. He has a Masters in CS from UNC, Chapel Hill, and a B.Tech. in CS from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) , Madras. He's a proud recent owner of a Nikon D90, that he hopes to play with at burning man 2011.
Sakina Arsiwala, co-founderSakina previously led the international charter at youtube, Google's international Search Quality and User experience amongst other things. She has a masters in computer science with a focus on IR (Information retrieval) and started her career with an internship at Altavista and then Yahoo. She loves traveling and is always up for an adventure.
Sebastian Heycke, UXRecently, Sebastian worked for Yahoo search to help people be more successful searching and browsing. Before that he was at Adaptive Path with a subtle focus on making mobile devices better, which included doing guerrilla research in rural India. He studied design with emphasis on interface design. His motto is that understanding what really matters takes more than a three-minute pop song.
Jonas Huckestein, Engineering Jonas is a Computer Scientist by profession and a tinkerer by virtue. Anything can be figured out, improved, fixed or solved; everything is interesting, some things more than others. He started his major in Mathematics at the age of 15, immersed himself in CS since then and would have gone on to study Neuro Cognitive Psychology. In his previous life he worked as an elementary school teacher, consultant, researcher and programmer.
Herbert Ho, Engineering Herbert spent much of recent memory building things at paypal, youtube, google and sofalabs. Before that, he researched ubiquitous computing as part of his masters studies in CS at UIUC. He enjoys the outdoors, volunteering, exploring local eateries, and playing with Petrie (his dog) when he's not coding to change the world.
Felipe Brahm, EngineeringFelipe just likes building things that simplify regular tasks. He was the local school hero in Santiago for building a system that eliminated the pain of class selection and scheduling. The very impressed school officials acquired the software and it is now used across the universiy. He joined campfire labs after completing his Computer Engineering degree from Chile. He likes playing soccer. Yes, he was at a fraternity at UC Irvine and has great stories. You need only ask.
Shruti ChallaMost recently Shruti was the CEO and Founder of Tribal Atmosphere, Inc. (Pinchd) where she launched three social products in less then two years. Previously, Shruti had interned for PayPal, Siemens Venture Capital and Founders Fund. She has a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University and in her free time loves to dance, draw and jump start projects.
Investors and Advisors:
Rajeev Motwani, RIP
Gideon Yu
Michael Dearing
Ron Conway
Steve Chen
Keith Belling
Aydin Senkut
Christopher Michel
Asha Jadeja
David Lee
Michael Powers
Nickhil Jakatdar
Adam Rifkin
...and more
