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Priya Shah

Priya Shah

CEO & cofounder

Mumbai, India

Second-time founder working on intent signals for introductions that don't waste anyone's calendar.

Role
Founders
On StartCoLink since
Jan 2020

Exploring AI/ML for practical intro quality, cofounder discovery, and fundraising with real metrics.

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.

  1. 2020 – present

    CEO & cofounder, AI networking startup

    Intent signals, intro quality, and product for founder networks.

  2. 2014 – 2019

    Founder, B2B SaaS (acquired)

    Built and sold a team collaboration product serving SMB customers in India and Southeast Asia.