Abhay Parasnis
InvestorFounderBoard Member at Schneider Electric · Founder and CEO at Typeface · Director; CEO, Typeface.ai; Talent and Compensation Committee member at Dropbox
San Francisco Bay Area
FoundedTypeface
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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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Typeface's investors · 7
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
Director; CEO, Typeface.ai; Talent and Compensation Committee member at DropboxYC S07
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Dropbox went through Y Combinator (Summer 2007) — Abhay sits on its board, so any YC alum in your network can reach them through the company's founders.
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Dropbox's investors · 15
AccelPalo Alto · $1.6M – $70M checks · since 2014Altos VenturesBurlingame · $1M – $3M checks · since 2014BenchmarkSan Francisco · $100K – $30M checks · since 2014BlackRockWilmington · since 2014Felicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checks · since 2014Garage CapitalWaterloo · since 2014Great Oaks Venture CapitalNew York · $50K – $500K checks · since 2014Greylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $200M checks · since 2014Index VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M checks · since 2014IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)San Francisco · $15M – $75M checksRBC Capitalsince 2014RIT Capital PartnersLondon · since 2014SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)Palo Alto · since 2014Sequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2014Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2007
Co-founders at Dropbox
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Drew HoustonCo-Founder and Co-CEO
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Arash FerdowsiCo-founder & CTO
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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Business Process ManagementSupply ChainSocial EnterpriseProduct IncubationM&AData as a ServiceWindows AzureStrategyStart-upsMergersJavaBeansIaaSFrom Abhay's professional profile.
Colleagues at Schneider Electric
Annette Clayton
Chief Executive Officer, President at Schneider Electric
Christofer Flores
Software Engineer at Struck Capital
Jack McCauley
Co-founder of Oculus, Berkeley Foundation Trustee at Berkeley Frontier
Kara Alter
Head of Marketing at SE Ventures
Mike Hughes
Schneider Electric, President Nordics at 2050 Capital
Pierre Buerkle
Operating Partner at SE Ventures
Frequently asked questions
- 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 and Board Member at Schneider Electric and Director; CEO, Typeface.ai; Talent and Compensation Committee member at Dropbox.
- 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).
Founder mafias
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Schneider Electric mafia29
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Ken J CarpenterDevelopment Team LeadFounded Foundation Devices +1Guillaume DupontInvestment PartnerFounded ExaptoRob JohnsonPresident of North America APC/MGEFounded VertivFleur PellerinMember of the BoardFounded KorelyacapitalAbhishek AggarwalInternFounded TrinitygamingDaniel DoimoExecutive Vice President ITB / Executive Vice President Global SolutionsFounded Solarlytics
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COEP Technological University mafia13
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Common Sense Machines mafia3
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Same school
Also attended COEP Technological University22
Ravi RajamonyVice President at March Capital PartnersHemant JoshiFounding Partner at Pentathlon VenturesMahendra JainFounding GP at Chakra Growth FundAvijeet AlagathiManaging Partner at Shastra VCSujayInvestor at Artian InvestmentsLouise AdamsPartner; Family Office, Tax and Legal at Acorn Capital Advisers
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Shared employers
Also worked at Dropbox188
Drew HoustonCo-founder & CEO of DropboxArash FerdowsiCo-founder of DropboxQuentin ClarkInvestment Team at General CatalystAna AndreescuInvestor at Index VenturesMark GoldbergInvestor at Index VenturesRachel HansenInvestor at Index Ventures
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Also worked at Salience Capital1
Also worked at Adobe217
Brian ActonCo-founder of WhatsApp; co-founder of Signal FoundationLouise TomlinsonInvestor at Reinventure GroupAditya ReddyVice President at Sapphire VenturesJeff VeenDesigner and investor in London, United KingdomErika NashInvestor at Next Frontier CapitalMichael MignanoGeneral Partner at Union Square Ventures (USV)
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