About
Paul Kesserwani is a founder and operator with over 18 years of experience across technology and financial services. He was the sole founder of Cushion, which he ran for more than eight years and which raised $21M before being acquired by LendingClub in 2025; he also supported the founding team at Cryptomove during its $1.5M seed round. Earlier, he joined Twitter through its 2011 acquisition of Dasient, where he built the revenue operations team and later moved into product, and he previously held business development and sales engineering roles at Dasient and Qualys.
Founder at Cushion
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Cushion's investors · 6
500 GlobalSan Francisco · $150K checks · since 2025Afore CapitalSan Francisco · $500K – $2M checks · since 2025Better Tomorrow VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $4M checks · since 2025Flourish VenturesSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks · since 2025Green Cow Venture CapitalSan Francisco · since 2016Vestigo VenturesCambridge · $1M – $5M checks · since 2025
Experience
- LendingClubSenior Director of Product Management2025 — 2026San Francisco Bay Area
- CushionFounder & CEO2016 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
- CryptoMoveCo-Founder & COO2015 — 2016San Francisco
- TwitterProduct Manager, Ads API2015San Francisco Bay Area
- TwitterManager, Global Revenue/Sales Operations2012 — 2014San Francisco Bay Area
- Dasient (acquired by Twitter)Senior Sales Engineer2010 — 2012Sunnyvale, California, United States
- QualysSales Engineer2009 — 2010Redwood City, California, United States
- QualysLead Qualification Representative (Pre-Sales)2008 — 2009
- QualysThree Internships on the Web Development Team2004 — 2007Redwood City, California, United States
Skills & more
SaaS23SQL3Linux4Enterprise Software15Sales Operations13Account Management26Data Analysis2Start-ups24Network Security18Integration9Cloud Computing7Security7
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Paul Kesserwani?
- Paul Kesserwani is a founder and operator with over 18 years of experience across technology and financial services. He was the sole founder of Cushion, which he ran for more than eight years and which raised $21M before being acquired by LendingClub in 2025; he also supported the founding team at Cryptomove during its $1.5M seed round. Earlier, he joined Twitter through its 2011 acquisition of Dasient, where he built the revenue operations team and later moved into product, and he previously held business development and sales engineering roles at Dasient and Qualys.
- Where does Paul Kesserwani work?
- Paul Kesserwani is Founder of Cushion.
- What companies did Paul Kesserwani found?
- Paul Kesserwani founded Cushion.
- Where did Paul Kesserwani go to school?
- Paul Kesserwani studied at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo (Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering).
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Shared employers
Also worked at LendingClub26
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Also worked at Cushion1
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