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Abhimanyu Dhamija

Entrepreneur| Product Management

Bengaluru

< 1 year of work experience

Koalalab
20233 yrs 4 mosPresent

Greater Seattle Area

Something very ambitious… Trust layer for Open source code built on a proprietary linux OS(0-deb) Aug 2024-Present: Hardened base OSS container images with a familiar devex Jan 2023-Aug 2024: Lot of open source work in devsecops, access management, CI/CD security. Led to creation of BOLT & PINNY: https://github.com/koalalab-inc/
Alchemist Accelerator
Aug 202410 mosMay 2025

San Francisco Bay Area

KoalaLab part of Alchemist Class 39
Khatabook
20193 yrsDec 2021

India

Ran the Product for financial services charter. Built & scaled payment infra to $600MM annualised TPV. Playbook for entry to financial services. 💰Khatabook is the premier small business platform in India. Provides a host of software and financial services; funded by Sequioa, DST, tencent, GGV and others. Raised ~$190MM. Valuation of $600MM
AmberStudent
20154 yrs2019

UK, Australia, US, India

Built company and scaled business to gross booking value of $35MM/annum, revenue $1.5MM/annum and made it profitable(Yes!). Raised money from matrix partners and marquee angels & provided an exit. Survived a pivot and left the company in great hands who've grown it 7X since. 🏘️Amber is the largest international student accommodation booking platform. Operating in UK, Australia, USA, Ireland and more. Exited the company and handed the running of the company to my co-founder.
Housing.com
20132 yrs2015

India

First Indian tech company to use data science meaningfully, built interesting stuff like Lifestyle scores, listing expiry models, real estate pricing models. Also ran internal analytics. Built a team of 30 data scientists and business analysts. 💰Housing raised $100+MM from Softbank, Nexus and others. Peak valuation of $250MM, Later Merged with another real estate platform

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

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Headline

Entrepreneur| Product Management

About

Entrepreneur and Product Manager; built and scaled multiple products.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Co-Founder & CEO at Koalalab, 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos, Greater Seattle Area, Something very ambitious… Trust layer for Open source code built on a proprietary linux OS(0-deb) Aug 2024-Present: Hardened base OSS container images with a familiar devex Jan 2023-Aug 2024: Lot of open source work in devsecops, access management, CI/CD security. Led to creation of BOLT & PINNY: https://github.com/koalalab-inc/

Member-Entrepreneur at Alchemist Accelerator, Aug 2024 - May 2025 · 10 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, KoalaLab part of Alchemist Class 39

Vice President at Khatabook, 2019 - Dec 2021 · 3 yrs, India, Ran the Product for financial services charter. Built & scaled payment infra to $600MM annualised TPV. Playbook for entry to financial services. 💰Khatabook is the premier small business platform in India. Provides a host of software and financial services; funded by Sequioa, DST, tencent, GGV and others. Raised ~$190MM. Valuation of $600MM

Co-Founder & CEO at AmberStudent, 2015 - 2019 · 4 yrs, UK, Australia, US, India, Built company and scaled business to gross booking value of $35MM/annum, revenue $1.5MM/annum and made it profitable(Yes!). Raised money from matrix partners and marquee angels & provided an exit. Survived a pivot and left the company in great hands who've grown it 7X since. 🏘️Amber is the largest international student accommodation booking platform. Operating in UK, Australia, USA, Ireland and more. Exited the company and handed the running of the company to my co-founder.

Co-founder & Head, Data Sciences Lab at Housing.com, 2013 - 2015 · 2 yrs, India, First Indian tech company to use data science meaningfully, built interesting stuff like Lifestyle scores, listing expiry models, real estate pricing models. Also ran internal analytics. Built a team of 30 data scientists and business analysts. 💰Housing raised $100+MM from Softbank, Nexus and others. Peak valuation of $250MM, Later Merged with another real estate platform

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

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