Shamir Karkal - CEO and Co-Founder @ Sila - Crunchbase Person Profile

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Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles

Primary Job Title CEO and Co-Founder
Primary Organization
Sila

Location Portland, Oregon, United States
Regions West Coast, Western US
Gender Male

Investor Type
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Shamir Karkal is based out of Portland, Oregon and is the Board Member of Alliance for Innovative Regulation. Shamir previously worked at Sila as a Co-founder. Shamir Karkal attended the Carnegie Mellon University. Ashay Tamhane has been awarded Most Effective Tech Implementation for Customer Experience, India Fashion Forum.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments

Shamir Karkal

has made

investments. Their latest investment was

Seed Round - TeamOhana

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, when

TeamOhana

raised

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	TeamOhana	—	Seed Round - TeamOhana	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Jar	—	Series A - Jar	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Stere.io	—	Seed Round - Stere.io	obfuscated obfuscation

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs

Number of Past Jobs

Shamir Karkal

is the

CEO and Co-Founder

Sila

. Additionally,

Shamir Karkal

has had

past jobs including

Co-founder, CFO

Simple

Sila CEO and Co-Founder

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
Simple	Co-founder, CFO	Jan 1, 2010	Aug 31, 2015
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria	Head, Open APIs	Oct 1, 2015	—

Board and Advisor Roles

Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles

Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles

Shamir Karkal

holds

board and advisor roles including

Board Member

Alliance for Innovative Regulation

Investor and Advisor

EarnUp

, and

Senior Advisor

Blackbox

Alliance for Innovative Regulation Board MemberDec 2021
EarnUp Investor and Advisor
Blackbox Senior Advisor

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
WinWin (Acquired)	Investor	Nov 1, 2017	—

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West Coast Early Stage Companies With Fewer Than 100 Employees	18,177
West Coast Developer APIs Companies	52,630
United States Payments Companies	8,600
Portland Software Companies	38,807
West Coast Early Stage Companies With Less Than $50M in Revenue	26,313
West Coast Startups with Female Founders	27,627
Mucker Capital Portfolio Companies	55,923
Portland Companies With Less Than $1B in Revenue	20,008
Oregon Companies With Less Than $500M in Revenue (Top 10K)	8,422