Vrushali Paunikar is the Chief Product Officer at Carta where she leads the team that is responsible for developing new products and advancing existing solutions. Vrushali’s team delivers value to Carta’s more than 50,000 customers in the venture and startup ecosystem, and generates growth for the overall business. Before becoming CPO, Vrushali worked on building the valuation business and helped that business scale to software margins. She then went on to lead the Venture Capital business and envisioned Carta’s fund admin platform. Before joining Carta, Vrushali served as a product leader at Applied Predictive Technologies, Dynamic Signal, and Rocket Lawyer. She has a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University.