Update: I’ve joined Elevation Capital to support audacious AI founders I’m thrilled to announce a new chapter in my career: I’ve joined Elevation Capital as an AI Partner, based in the Bay Area, to support audacious founders building in the AI space. This journey feels like the culmination of everything I’ve worked toward. As a two-time founder—at Capillary, an early pioneer in SaaS and Cloud, and Taro, which taught me the intricacies of scaling in an atoms business—I’ve experienced firsthand the exhilarating highs and daunting lows of building from zero to one. At Cohesity and Meta, I had the privilege of scaling teams and products in high-growth environments, including working on AI-native products at the intersection of ads and messaging that helped power a $10B+ business. These experiences taught me invaluable lessons about products, people, and processes—lessons I can’t wait to bring to this next chapter. What drew me to Elevation Capital is its rare blend of ambition and purpose. From my first conversations with Ravi, Mukul, and the team, it was clear that this is a firm built on substance. They aren’t just about making great investments—they’re about rolling up their sleeves to truly help founders thrive. The focus on deep relationships, an empathetic approach, and a relentless drive to support founders in meaningful ways resonated deeply with me. I couldn’t imagine a better platform to join in this mission. For me, the founder's journey is nothing short of a hero’s quest. It’s a path filled with exhilarating breakthroughs, sleepless nights, profound challenges, and moments of glory. For founders operating in the India-US corridor, this journey is even more demanding—navigating time zones, bridging cultures, constant jet lag and making sacrifices most can’t imagine. Having lived this journey myself and supported over a hundred incredible founders through angel investments, I know the grit it takes. I hope to bring empathy and genuine partnership to every founder interaction, helping them tackle the big and small battles along the way. Today, we stand at the cusp of a platform shift unlike anything we’ve seen before. The AI revolution presents an unprecedented opportunity to redefine entire industries, and the India-US ecosystem is uniquely poised to rise to this challenge. With its vibrant talent pool, entrepreneurial spirit, and a growing track record of building category-defining companies this ecosystem is ready to create generational businesses that will shape the future. Joining Elevation at this moment feels like both a privilege and a responsibility. I’m here to champion bold ideas, transformative AI technologies, and the incredible founders behind them. Here’s to building the future together! Elevation Capital Ravi Adusumalli Mukul Arora Poorvi Vijay Satya Bharadwaja Aadith Ramesh Astha Jakher Shambhav Tewari Mridul Arora Mayank Khanduja Vaas Bhaskar Chirag Chadha
We are excited to welcome Krishna Mehra to Elevation Capital as AI Partner, deepening our commitment to partnering with India's most ambitious SaaS and AI founders. At Elevation, we are extremely bullish on Indian founders building category-defining AI companies for the world, and with Krishna leading our presence in Silicon Valley, we are better positioned than ever to help founders realize this opportunity. Based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, Krishna will lead our SaaS and AI investments in the India-US corridor - not just supporting Indian founders building for global markets but also engaging with Indian diaspora founders who are leveraging talent and innovation across both ecosystems. Krishna is a successful serial entrepreneur, having co-founded Capillary Technologies in 2008, a forerunner of India's cross-border SaaS movement. He also founded the meal delivery marketplace Taro in 2015, scaling it to deliver over a million meals before its successful acquisition by EAT Club. As an angel investor, Krishna has backed over 45 companies, which have collectively created over $5 billion in enterprise value. Krishna joins us from Meta, where he led engineering for messaging ads, driving $10B+ in revenue with AI-driven products and deploying some of the world’s largest machine-learning models, including early adoption of Meta’s Llama. Prior to that, he architected enterprise-grade, exabyte-scale cloud systems at Cohesity. Krishna’s trifecta of experiences as a founder, operator, and investor par excellence makes him an invaluable addition to our partnership and, more importantly, a tremendous resource for founders we partner with. Read more in our blog: https://lnkd.in/gtVpJabs Ravi Adusumalli, Mukul Arora, Mridul Arora, Mayank Khanduja, Chirag Chadha, Vaas Bhaskar, Vaibhav Goel, Ramanuj Gopalan
Here’s to many more feathers in your already well-feathered cap…all the best as you embark on your next adventure! 👍
Elevation Capital has scored a big win by getting you onboard. Excited for the support that you are going to provide to the founders. Very happy and excited for you. Wishing you onward and upward success on your journey!
Elevation Capital is lucky to have you Krishna! You will be an invaluable addition to building their US - India corridor. Cannot think of a better professional than you to lead their AI practice! 👍🏾
As they say in startup world timing is everything. This is great timing to be the intersection of India -Us and AI 👍
Congrats and welcome back to the startup world.
Congrats KK looking forward to work together
Congrats KK. Look forward to see you in this role.
From pitching ideas to hearing them on repeat. Ready for it? 🙂 Congratulations!
Principal Engineer / Architect
8hWishing you the best. You are a great communicator and have breadth of experience for this role!