About
Vivek Sudarsan is CEO and co-founder of Avina. Previously, he served as Chief Product Officer at Bowtie, which was acquired by Mindbody, where he contributed to scaling the product post-acquisition.
CEO & Co-Founder at AvinaYC S22
Intro paths
YC
Vivek went through Y Combinator (Summer 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Avina's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Vivek can intro founders to Avina's investors below.
Avina's investors · 4
Co-founders at Avina
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Mike WangFounder
Experience
- Avina (YC S22)CEO & Co-Foundercurrent2025 — presentNew York, NY
- Avina (YC S22)CPO & Co-Founder2023 — 2025New York, NY
- MindbodyProduct2019 — 2021New York, NY
- Bowtie.aiCPO & Co-Founder (Acquired by Mindbody)2016 — 2019New York, NY
- NielsenProduct Lead, Buy CTO Research & Development2014 — 2016New York City, NY
- NielsenWatch Associate, Emerging Leaders Program2012 — 2013New York City, NY
Skills & more
Python8Swift7Natural Language Processing7Machine Learning4JavaScript5PostgreSQL4Django2User Interface Design4Photoshop3HTML3iOS1CSS1
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Sketch AppAdobe PhotoshopData AnalysisFrom Vivek's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Vivek Sudarsan?
- Vivek Sudarsan is CEO and co-founder of Avina. Previously, he served as Chief Product Officer at Bowtie, which was acquired by Mindbody, where he contributed to scaling the product post-acquisition.
- Where does Vivek Sudarsan work?
- Vivek Sudarsan is CEO & Co-Founder of Avina.
- What companies did Vivek Sudarsan found?
- Vivek Sudarsan founded Avina.
- Where did Vivek Sudarsan go to school?
- Vivek Sudarsan studied at Y Combinator; Cornell University (Master's degree, Computer Science); Northwestern University (Bachelor's degree, Economics).
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