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Blaze

Winter 2022 · Active

Marketing automation for the modern world

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2022

Team size: 10

About

Blaze uses AI and automation to scan millions of online signals to help modern companies target the right potential customers as soon as they show interest.

Founders

  • Lauren RothwellFounder

    Lauren is the co-founder and CEO of Blaze. Lauren grew up in Ireland, and started her career on the trading floor of Goldman Sachs in London. Fascinated by the fintech revolution she was witnessing, she moved to Silicon Valley to get closer to where all the magic happened. She worked in product at several start ups before launching Blaze. Lauren has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a degree in Economics and Statistics from Trinity College Dublin.

  • Chirag MahapatraFounder

    Chirag is a co-founder and CTO of Blaze. Previously, he was an Engineering Manager at Facebook in the Growth org working on problems in privacy, infrastructure and data. Prior to this, he was led the Membership and Authentication Infra teams at Airbnb. He also had stints in the Identity and Risk teams while there solving problems in ML. He joined Airbnb as part of an acquisition of a ML startup, Trooly. Chirag has a graduate degree from UC Berkeley and undergraduate degree from NITK.