Warm intros fail when both sides perform interest instead of stating what they actually need this quarter.
Priya is a second-time founder based in Mumbai, building around AI-assisted networking and clearer founder intent signals. Her first company exited modestly; she says the lesson wasn't the outcome—it was how expensive vague intros became at scale.
She's technical enough to follow architecture conversations and business-minded enough to kill features that don't move retention. StartCoLink is both a product she uses and a community she contributes to—especially threads about intro etiquette.
She's selective about fundraising narratives and prefers talking about usage and retention metrics over vision slides.
Path so far
A short arc—not a résumé dump. Dates are approximate where early work overlapped.
2020 – present
CEO & cofounder, AI networking startup
Intent signals, intro quality, and product for founder networks.
2014 – 2019
Founder, B2B SaaS (acquired)
Built and sold a team collaboration product serving SMB customers in India and Southeast Asia.