About
Gaurav Maken is a Community Partner at Pioneer Fund.
Founder at Mylk GuysYC S18
Intro paths
YC
Gaurav went through Y Combinator (Summer 2018) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Gaurav can intro founders to Mylk Guys's investors below.
Mylk Guys's investors · 2
Co-founders at Mylk Guys
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Jinesh ShahFounder
Experience
- Pioneer FundCommunity Partnercurrent2025 — present
- Full FutureCo-Founder & Managing Partner2020 — 2025
- Orange DAOSr. Venture Partner2021 — 2024
- Mylk GuysFounder (YC S18)2017 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- b8taHead of Product2017San Francisco Bay Area
- InstacartSr. Product Manager - Catalog2015 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
- AmazonTechnical Program Manager - Financial Systems2013 — 2015Greater Seattle Area
- AmazonSoftware Engineer - Payment Products2011 — 2013Greater Seattle Area
- QualcommSoftware Intern - GPU Compilers2008 — 2009San Diego County, California, United States
- Research In MotionSoftware Intern - Attachment Server2007Greater Toronto Area, Canada
Skills & more
Product StrategyProduct DevelopmentProduct Management5Cloud ComputingOwnershipTechnical Project DeliveryAgile Methodologies14Software Design11Distributed Systems3Software Engineering3Testing2Software Development11
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Agile Project ManagementMobile ApplicationsScrumScalabilityRuby on RailsJavaScriptHTML 5JavaSaaSMySQLPythonObjective-CFrom Gaurav's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Gaurav Maken?
- Gaurav Maken is a Community Partner at Pioneer Fund.
- Where does Gaurav Maken work?
- Gaurav Maken is Founder of Mylk Guys.
- What companies did Gaurav Maken found?
- Gaurav Maken founded Mylk Guys.
- Where did Gaurav Maken go to school?
- Gaurav Maken studied at University of Toronto (Bachelors, Electrical and Computer Engineering); San Diego State University (Finance & Economics).
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