Pawan Deshpande
Angel Investor at Curata Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPawan Deshpande is an investor and product leader with 11 years of experience focused on AI and B2B SaaS, currently operating Curata Ventures to back frontier AI and enterprise founders. He previously founded and scaled Curata into a market-leading content marketing SaaS serving Fortune 100 customers and driving multimillion-dollar revenue, and has since led product and growth initiatives at startups and scale-ups including Scale AI, Domino Data Lab, and Linea. His background spans deep ML research and applied engineering—building transliteration models at Google and early social recommendation algorithms at Microsoft—giving him rare fluency across research, product, and commercialization. Pawan combines operator instincts with active angel investing in notable companies like Anthropic, Toast, and Upside Foods, and supports multiple AI-focused funds and stealth startups. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area with MIT engineering credentials, he often revives brand assets (Curata) strategically and invests in unusual areas from drones-as-first-responders to Indian farmland cultivation.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng. Computer Science (Natural Language Processing), M.Eng. Computer Science (Natural Language Processing) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Phillips Academy
Github Skills (9)
python-interface6
matching5
api4
python4
rest-api3
rest3
protobuf2
protocol-buffers2
airtable2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
idlivada/gapps-mail-merge
Nov 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year 7 months
idlivada/campaign
Jul 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 issues in 2 years 9 months
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