Built by ex. Google data & AI technologists
Engineers at BoostUp set out to create a flexible non-relational timeseries data platform to passively collect, connect, and index structured & unstructured data inside ALL dominant digital revenue channels. We also interviewed more than 100 sales leaders and seeded the product with their knowledge. This tribal knowledge of sales combined with foundational data architecture has resulted in the best platform Revenue has seen.
We have 30+ years of collective experience leading sales teams and building large-scale unstructured data AI applications at Google and Yahoo – among other leading tech platforms.
Management Team
Sharad Verma
CEO and Co-founder
Sharad is a repeat tech entrepreneur and saas product executive with over 15 years of experience in building AI based analytics and workflow automation products. His previous company Piqora, helped over 300 brands analyze images on social networks and was sold in 2016. At Yahoo! Sharad led search ranking and advertising groups to generate $100m in incremental revenue.
Amit Sasturkar
CTO and Co-founder
Amit is a seasoned start-up CTO who spent several years at Google Search and Yahoo Search building large scale AI systems and backend systems. Amit founded OpsClarity funded by NEA, and has several research papers and patents in Web-scale Data Mining, Anomaly Detection, and Operational Data Analytics.
Neel Kamal
CCO and Co-founder
Neel is passionate about startup culture and the pursuer of excellence in sales execution. He has 10 years of successful sales and leadership experience. Prior to Boostup, he worked in various field-facing roles for many startup companies including Wavefront (acquired by VMWARE), Couchbase, Encentuate (acquired by IBM).
Investors & Advisors
Perry Germain
ex. VP Sales Okta
Perry was recently the Vice President Worldwide Sales at Okta where he led the sales team for 7 years. Previously he was the VP Sales at Success Factors.
Ankur Jain
Founder, Emergent Ventures
Ankur is Founder and Partner at Emergent Ventures, a Silicon Valley based early stage venture capital firm. Earlier, Ankur has been a venture investor across US, India and Israel at Nexus Venture Partners and Blumberg Capital. Prior to that, Ankur led product teams at Andiamo Systems and later Cisco which acquired Andiamo in 2004.
Jody Shapiro
GM, Google Analytics
Jody is currently founder and CEO of an enterprise startup backed by top-tier VCs. Previously he led Product Management for Google Analytics and built the Google Analytics Premium enterprise business (now Google Analytics 360) into a global leader in digital marketing technology. .
David Kahn
Head of Sales, Google Cloud
David has 20+ years leading global sales teams with a focus on growth especially with emerging products. Before joining Google Cloud, David spent years working in Cloud Infrastructure along with the Financial Services and Marketing application space. He currently resides in Boulder, CO.
Jayant Kadambi
ex. CEO YUME
Jayant co-founded and was the CEO of YuMe (NYSE:YUME) for 12 years. He is an author and holds several domestic and international patents in the growing fields of video production, semiconductors, and advertising technology. Currently, Kadambi spends his time as an advisor and mentor to select few transformational start-ups
BJ Bushur
Founder & CEO, Foundation6
BJ is Founder & CEO of Foundation6, a B2B sales consulting firm that has helped over 100 tech companies scale sales including MuleSoft, Apigee, Box, MongoDB, and PagerDuty. BJ has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur & VP of Sales, managing high-growth sales teams at Netscape and Opsware.
Diane Updyke
6 time VP of Sales
Diane Updyke has built over 6 sales teams as a VP of Sales at companies like Marketo, Spredfast and as a consultant at various startups and enterprise companies. Her book is due in December, Building Your Sales Team.
Matthew Gray
Head of Channel, New Relic. prev. MuleSoft
Matt is a veteran sales executive and is currently the head of world wide channel sales at New Relic. Previously he was the VP of Worldwide OEM Sales at MuleSoft.
Rishi Bhargava
VP of Product Strategy at Palo Alto Networks
Rishi co-founded Demisto, a leader in – “Security Orchestration”- which was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2019. Prior to founding Demisto, Rishi was Vice President and General Manager of the Datacenter Group at Intel Security (McAfee).
Why customers love BoostUp
Marco Pasqualina
Stephen Daniels
Chris Pham
Mike Nabasny
Diane Updyke
Michael Walsh
Brad Mandell
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