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Paul Kesserwani

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Founder & CEO at Cushion

San Francisco, California, United States

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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.

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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 & CEO of Cushion.
What companies did Paul Kesserwani found?
Paul Kesserwani founded Cushion.

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