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Technologist - Zero to One Builder - Mentor - Optimist

Sunita Parbhu is a seasoned startup product executive building high-growth consumer and enterprise software businesses. Fifteen years in Silicon Valley, founding and scaling companies with leading/bleeding tech. Superpowers at the intersection of product and go-to-market, doing the "impossible." Her career is shaped by curiousness, risk-taking, and a founder's mindset.

Sunita is currently focused on the web3 / blockchain space, combining her two biggest interests: technology and structural improvements in how we work and earn. She was recently the Head of Product at CVKey Project, a nonprofit whose mission is to help communities reopen responsibly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, Sunita worked on improving labor economics. She was VP of Product & Growth for a startup from seed to raising Series A. Sunita was Founding Fellow at NFX, a prominent Bay Area VC firm working with numerous startups on building network effects in their businesses. Her education includes two degrees from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Notable exits:
- Adchemy (machine learning; acq. Walmart Labs).
- Siebel (enterprise software, web services; acq. Oracle, $5.85B).
Both served global enterprise customers (financial services, retail, telco, public sector).

Notable Startups:
- CVKey Covid solutions (CEO Brian McClendon, former VP Google Maps/Google Earth)
- NextForce marketplace (investors August, Mayfield, Foundation) from seed to Series A and 30 employees.
- Adchemy machine learning (investors August, Mayfield, Accenture, Microsoft) from Series A to Series E and 300 employees. Acquired Walmart Labs.

Finance and strategy: derivatives trader at New Zealand's largest bank, the founding fellow at premier venture firm @NFX, @McKinsey.

Sunita enjoys beaches and the outdoors. She spends time with her family, and her dog Blaze, who is bigger than she is.

Building world-changing technology companies

I believe in:

  • building great products, focusing on satisfying your customers - not competitors - and becoming a market leader

  • making sure the whole management team and the whole company are aligned

  • being a great place to work

  • focusing on values

  • hiring A+ players - always hire people who are smarter than you and enable them do their best work

  • being brutally honest with each other about culture, performance, and leadership

Everything else follows.