While working at Bain Capital Ventures, Sahil Gupta met with executives who lamented the struggle to meet customer expectations while their supply chains worked against them.
Meanwhile, Srinath Sridhar was at BloomReach, helping retailers leverage machine learning to improve product discovery and drive conversions and revenue.
Together, they set off to build a company that could dramatically improve the modern supply chain.
Our team is its best when we bring our authentic selves to work. We're honest about who we are and how we operate.
We are transparent about our successes and goals, as well as our failures and concerns. We learn from each other.
We're a small team that thinks big. We believe the big ideas start from the simplest place—self-awareness and consideration for others.
We check our egos at the door. We believe that every question deserves to be answered, and every perspective is worth hearing.
Sahil has spent his career as an entrepreneur, management consultant at Bain & Co. working with Fortune 500 companies, and most recently as a founding member of the Silicon Valley operations for Bain Capital Ventures, where he was focused on innovative technologies that enable retail. Sahil received undergraduate degrees in Economics and Systems Engineering, with a focus in Optimization Systems, from the University of Pennsylvania.
Srinath has focused his career on applying machine learning to solve novel problems. He wrote a patent and built a machine learning model to distinguish products from accessories at Google. Srinath then joined Facebook where he built their first machine learning based search ranking algorithm. He went on to become a member of the founding team and principal engineer at BloomReach. Srinath received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Abhishek Das is a computer scientist with years of deep technical experience in designing and building scalable, data-driven products. Prior to Onera, Abhishek applied machine learning to enhance Google’s search experience, including re-ranking for categorical quality and identifying resources from organic and structured content, for which he holds granted patents. He has had first-hand experience in building a web search engine from scratch at Cuil, contributing to its core indexing and ranking components, as well as designing Cuil's real-time search product.
Abhishek has co-authored the leading chapter of the book Next Generation Search Engines: Advanced Models for Information Retrieval, has been granted numerous patents, and has published at several peer-reviewed publications. He holds a PhD from Stanford University and received his B.Tech in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur.
Sarah has spent her career in enterprise software sales and go-to-market strategy for cutting-edge technology companies, from fast-growth startups to public tech giants. Prior to Onera, she was responsible for new customer acquisition in the South Central territory at Amazon Web Services, where she obtained her AWS Solutions Architect certification and helped customers migrate workloads to the cloud. Sarah received a Master of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sarah is passionate about empowering women in tech and closing the gender gap in STEM. She led the grassroots effort to bring Girls Who Code to the Dallas-Fort Worth region, introducing the nonprofit computer science program into local schools and spearheading the first Girls Who Code & Girl Scouts Community Club partnership in the country.
