Ajay Mehta
Founder And President at Tolan
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolAjay Mehta is a founder and product leader with nine years of experience building consumer products and scaling startups, currently leading Tolan with backing from top-tier investors including Khosla Ventures and industry founders. He previously founded Birthdate Co., which has sold over 1M personalized products and earned 20,000+ five-star reviews and national media coverage, and co-created Therapy Notebooks, a retail-success product recognized by Cosmopolitan and the New York Times. Ajay led international launches and new product initiatives at Wealthsimple—bringing IRAs, pensions, and socially responsible portfolios to new markets—and helped grow Tilt’s enterprise offering into a multimillion-dollar payments stream. His entrepreneurial track record traces back to a Y Combinator-backed social app, FamilyLeaf, acquired in 2013, showing a pattern of building consumer trust and repeatable go-to-market playbooks. A Columbia-educated computer scientist based in Los Angeles, he blends hands-on product development with growth strategy and an eye for design-driven, media-friendly products. Notably, his ventures emphasize personalized customer experiences at scale, turning small product details into major brand moments.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
W12, W12 at Y CombinatorInterlake Senior High SchoolPhillips Exeter AcademyBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Columbia UniversityGithub contributions (1)
ochan4/UID_FinalAssignment
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 20 pushes in 6 days
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