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Aakash Kumar

Investor

Deeptech, AI & Fintech at DeVC

Seattle, Washington, United States

About

Former SVP of Growth at Hotstar where he scaled subscriptions past 40 million users and built an ad-tech stack generating $200M in revenue; previously led product at Indus OS and founded gaming startup Wings Intellect (exited). An active angel investor in over 100 startups, he holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay.

ContactΒ· self-published, not guessed

Experience

  1. Unannounced ventureFoundercurrent2026 β€” presentSeattle, Washington, United States
  2. HighspotArchitect2024 β€” 2025Seattle, Washington, United States
  3. Falkon AICTO & Co-founder2019 β€” 2025Seattle, Washington
  4. DropboxHead of Engineering - Search, Content Retrieval, Mobile and Web applications2018 β€” 2019Seattle, WA
  5. DropboxSenior Engineering Manager2013 β€” 2018Seattle, WA
  6. Familiar Inc.Principal Engineer2011 β€” 2013Seattle, WA
  7. MicrosoftPrincipal Development Lead, Xbox Live2011Redmond, WA
  8. MicrosoftPrincipal Development Lead, Windows Live Mesh cloud services2009 β€” 2011Redmond, WA
  9. MicrosoftPrincipal Software Engineer2001 β€” 2009Redmond, WA

Skills & more

Android4Java1C#4SQL4Microsoft SQL Server3REST2Hadoop1Visual Studio1Ruby on Rails1C++.NETRuby
+12 moreAndroid SDKManagementAndroid DevelopmentDistributed SystemsScalabilitySoftware EngineeringCloud ComputingWin32 APIWeb ServicesMobile DevicesMultithreadingSoftware Design

Languages English Β· German Β· Gujarati Β· Hindi Β· Marathi

  • Computer Graphics β€” University of Washington

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Colleagues at DeVC

Divyanshi Chowdhary
Investment Professional at DeVC
Krish Bajaj
AI at DeVC
Rahul Mathur
Associate Vice President at DeVC
Rajat Agarwal
Fintech & Consumer at DeVC
Trinika Kaushik
Consumer at DeVC
Yashasvi Madhogaria
Deeptech & Manufacturing at DeVC

Frequently asked questions

Who is Aakash Kumar?
Former SVP of Growth at Hotstar where he scaled subscriptions past 40 million users and built an ad-tech stack generating $200M in revenue; previously led product at Indus OS and founded gaming startup Wings Intellect (exited). An active angel investor in over 100 startups, he holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay.
Where does Aakash Kumar work?
Aakash Kumar is Deeptech, AI & Fintech at DeVC.
Where did Aakash Kumar go to school?
Aakash Kumar studied at National University of Singapore (BS with Honors, Computer Science).

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Shared employers

Also worked at Highspot6

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Eugene LeeInvestor at OMERS Ventures

Also worked at Dropbox137

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