Shravan Reddy is a Visiting Partner at Pear VC, focused on PearX, Pear's extremely selective, small batch accelerator program with up to $2 million in funding. 🌱
Shravan was most recently an Engineering Leader at Stripe. He grew Stripe Treasury from idea to hundreds of millions of dollars in deposits, and led Issuing’s integrations with half-a-dozen banks.
Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of Pixelapse, a design collaboration company. He grew the business to profitability and tens of thousands of designers on the platform. The company was eventually acquired by Dropbox. Post-acquisition, Shravan led teams building Dropbox’s suite of collaboration tools, including the "new Dropbox", file history and previews.
Shravan is a Bay Area native, and grew up between the US and India. He studied CS and Economics at Stanford, earned his Master’s in Management Science & Engineering (MS&E) from Stanford and holds multiple patents.
On the internet
Shravan is shravan on Instagram, shravangreddy on Twitter and shrredd on GitHub, LinkedIn and Facebook. Unfortunately, consistent usernames are hard to come by.
In the news
- Techcrunch: Stripe announces embedded business banking service Stripe Treasury
- The Verge: Dropbox is getting a massive overhaul, wants to be the center of your workflow
- Dropbox Blog: Working with design files just got easier, with new and improved image previews
- The Next Web: Dropbox acquires visual collaboration platform Pixelapse
- TechCrunch: YC-Backed Pixelapse Brings GitHub-Style Sharing & Version Control To Your Design Projects
- VentureBeat: Dropbox acquires Pixelapse, a version-control and collaboration tool for designers
- Silicon Valley Business Journal: Dropbox buys Pixelapse, a StartX, Y Combinator grad
- YCombinator: Pixelapse (YC W12) launches to bring Github-style sharing and version control to designers
- ProductHunt: Pixelapse
- Hacker News: Show HN: Github for Designers
- AllThingsD: Yahoo Paid $60M to $70M for Rockmelt
Side Projects
- NBA Wins Pool: An iPhone app to automate Bill Simmons's wins pool idea.
- Sketch: A parser for Sketch.app files
- Hood! mobile phone application: Created as part of CS 147 (Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction)
- TodayScreen: iOS widgets before they were supported natively.