About
Abhay Parasnis is the founder and CEO of Typeface, an enterprise AI marketing platform, and co-founder of Salience Capital, a seed-stage fund focused on semiconductors, AI, robotics, and biology, established with Lip-Bu Tan. He serves as a board member of Dropbox and Schneider Electric and an advisory board member of McLaren Racing, and has invested in AI companies including Perplexity, Common Sense Machines, Higgsfield, WisprFlow, and Cartesia. He previously held the roles of chief technology officer and chief product officer at Adobe and general manager at Microsoft/Azure, has co-authored two books, and is a named inventor on more than 35 patents.
Founder and CEO at Typeface
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GV (Google Ventures)Mountain View · $250K – $50M checks · since 2023HomebrewBurlingame · $100K – $500K checks · since 2023Lightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $1.7M – $87M checks · since 2023M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Seattle · $100K – $10M checks · since 2023Madrona Venture GroupSeattle · $2M – $10M checks · since 2023Menlo VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $20M checks · since 2023Salesforce VenturesSan Francisco · $5M – $50M checks · since 2023
Experience
- TypefaceFounder & CEOcurrent2022 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- McLaren RacingAdvisory Board Membercurrent2026 — presentWoking, England, United Kingdom
- Schneider ElectricBoard Membercurrent2022 — presentRueil-Malmaison, Paris
- DropboxBoard Membercurrent2022 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Salience CapitalCo-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Common Sense MachinesFounding Investor/Board Member2020 — 2026Cambridge, MA
- AdobeEVP, Chief Technology Officer(CTO) & Chief Product Officer (CPO)2020 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
- AdobeEVP, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) & Chief Strategy Officer2020
- AdobeEVP, Chief Technology Officer (CTO)2016 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- AdobeSVP, Chief Technology Officer (CTO)2015San Francisco Bay Area
- Kony, Inc.President & COO2013 — 2015San Francisco Bay Area
- OracleStrategic Advisor, Oracle Public Cloud2013San Francisco Bay Area
- OracleSenior Vice President, Oracle Public Cloud2012 — 2013San Francisco Bay Area
- MicrosoftGeneral Manager, Microsoft Azure2009 — 2011Greater Seattle Area
- MicrosoftGeneral Manager, Windows Live Mesh2006 — 2009Greater Seattle Area
- MicrosoftFounder/Product Unit Manager, Windows Workflow Foundation2002 — 2006Greater Seattle Area
- i2 TechnologiesChief Architect1997 — 2002Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
- IBMSoftware Researcher1996 — 1997
Skills & more
Cloud Computing99SaaS81Enterprise Mobility8Enterprise Software72PaaS35Mobile Applications23Mobile Security1Mobile Product DevelopmentMiddleware16Web Services22Distributed Systems23Scalability21
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- Who is Abhay Parasnis?
- Abhay Parasnis is the founder and CEO of Typeface, an enterprise AI marketing platform, and co-founder of Salience Capital, a seed-stage fund focused on semiconductors, AI, robotics, and biology, established with Lip-Bu Tan. He serves as a board member of Dropbox and Schneider Electric and an advisory board member of McLaren Racing, and has invested in AI companies including Perplexity, Common Sense Machines, Higgsfield, WisprFlow, and Cartesia. He previously held the roles of chief technology officer and chief product officer at Adobe and general manager at Microsoft/Azure, has co-authored two books, and is a named inventor on more than 35 patents.
- Where does Abhay Parasnis work?
- Abhay Parasnis is Founder and CEO of Typeface.
- What companies did Abhay Parasnis found?
- Abhay Parasnis founded Typeface.
- Where did Abhay Parasnis go to school?
- Abhay Parasnis studied at COEP Technological University (B.S., Electronics & Telecommunications).
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