Blaze
Winter 2022 · Active
Marketing automation for the modern world
Location: San Francisco, US
Founded: 2022
Team size: 10
About
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.