Taher Haveliwala
Investor Advisor Mentor at QForge Ventures
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaher Haveliwala is an investor, advisor, and mentor with 16 years helping early-stage startups turn technical vision into product and exits, backed by deep expertise in machine learning, AI, and search. A serial founder and engineer, he co-founded Kaltix (acquired by Google) and Scalar Labs, and played a key technical role at Room77 before its acquisition and as a Staff Software Engineer on Google’s Search Rankings team with 20+ patents. He looks for visionary founders with unique technical and market insights and has guided companies to exits at Slack, Google, Autodesk, Rakuten, and Niantic. Taher blends hands-on research pedigree (PhD/MS Stanford, EECS highest honors at Berkeley) with practical product-building and early-stage investing, often contributing to prototype-to-platform transitions. Less obvious: he repeatedly operates at the intersection of search and personalization, turning research advances into commercial search experiences.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Highest Honors, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Highest Honors at University of California, BerkeleyM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (9)
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node-canvas5
svg-path5
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javascript5
trigger4
canvas4
autocomplete3
clojure2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
taherh/pysimsearch
May 2010 - Oct 2011
Contributions:144 commits in 1 year 5 months
taherh/tweetspiral
Mar 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:5 pushes in 3 years
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