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# Abhimanyu Dhamija on Tal

## 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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