Team

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Alok Nandan

Partner, Emergent.vc

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Alok is currently a partner at Emergent.vc and previously was a Director of Product at TempoAI and later at Salesforce which acquired TempoAI in 2016. Prior to that, Alok held multiple product management roles at Yume, Microsoft, with the last one in Windows Azure. Alok was also co-founder of ToneThis a mobile technology startup.

Diane Updyke

6 time VP of Sales

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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

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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.

Why customers love BoostUp

BoostUp has helped us save several 6 figure deals. It has helped us create a culture of transparency and accountability. If it's not in BoostUp, it didn't happen. UI is personalized to reflect our business language.

Marco Pasqualina

VP Sales, Toluna

With BoostUp, I can inspect pipeline in 1/10th of the time and call deals 2x more accurately. Our leaders now have an excellent lens to evaluate deal risks instantly.

Stephen Daniels

Director of Sales Operations

We can cut through pipeline BS and learn deal risks while saving 3-4 hours of my back-and-forth time every week. Risk factors are immediately actionable so my AEs can quickly prioritize at-risk deals.

Chris Pham

Head of Sales, Deal Path

BoostUp is that always-on dashboard that gives me a complete view from emails, calls, salesforce and calendar. It’s part data consolidator, part AI investigatory, and visually tells a story.

Diane Updyke

VP Sales, Sisense (Marketo, Spredfast)

“BoostUp helps us understand if reps are deviating from the sales process. It finds us repeatable patterns to coach and train reps on winning plays.

BJ Bushur

Founder and CEO, Foundation6

BoostUp is a next generation sales dashboard. It is both quantitative and predictive in analyzing your team forecast and individual rep productivity, consumable by reps, management and Ops.

Michael Walsh

VP of Sales, OpsGenie at Atlassian

BoostUp allows us to get a solid grip on a large portion of the pipeline, all within the limited time that sales leaders usually have to review deals.

Brad Mandell

VP Sales, Robin.io

BoostUp.ai provides us the 360-degree view of any opportunity in our pipeline quickly. We get to know the what and the why of every deal. With the buyer’s perspective included for each deal, we have complete insight if a deal really has traction, and the overall health of the pipeline.

Michael Williams

VP Sales, NetSuite

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