Startups - The connection of Arta Finance
Overview
Arta aims to bring these advantages to millions more globally through technology.
Arta Finance, led by 8 ex-Google execs, finished series A with 81 total investors. The funding amount is $90M. And more than 30 of the investors are related to Google.
Founders
Caesar Sengupta was the VP for Payments & NBU at Google. NBU was founded in 2015 and he was the founder too. Was VP of Chrome OS 2009-2015. 2k+ reports
Mark Striebeck was the engineering director at Google payment. Start from 2020.
Felix Lin was the VP of payment ecosystems at Google. VP, PM in Chrome OS, 2009-2018.
Edward Chiang, Director of Product Management in the Google Payment team, leads the Google Pay app. Chrome OS (2010-2015)
David Shapiro, CBO of Google’s NBU initiative. Marketing director of Chrome OS from 2012 - 2017.
Zelidrag Hornung, was eng director in Payment & NBU. 2018 in Chrome OS.
Charles Dong, PM lead of G pay. 2016-2021
Investors
The lead investor is Sequoia Capital India
Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO
Bradley Horowitz, Google Area 120 Advisor
Tania Aidrus, Product Director in Payments for NBU during 2017 - Jan 2020 ·
Ryan Tabone, Co-founder & GPM in Chrome OS, 2008-2013. GM & VP in Google Pay & Google Finance 2018-2021.
Baris Gultekin, Senior director of Google Assistant on Mobile, 2017-2022
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google
Ambarish Kenghe, VP of Google pay 2018-present
Mike Tsao, Eng director in Andriod 2011-2022.
Shivakumar Venkataraman, Former Search and Ads VP at Google.
Michael Baldwin, Senior PM Payments and NBU during 2015-2019
Christine Robson Weaver, PM director at Google Brain
Karim Temsamani, President in Asisa-pacific of Google, 2012-2019.
Ram Shriram, Google Board member
Scott Beaumont, President, Asia Pacific in Google.
Sumit Gwalani, Director of PM, Google Pay, NBU in Google India, 2009-2019
Carissa Dizon, Director of NBU, 2019-
Nikesh Arora, CBO of Google during 2004-1014
Oren Zamir, Senior Engineering Director in NBU, 2015-2017
Gayathri Rajan, Product leader on Google Payments, Android, 2006-2016
Bharat Mediratta, Distinguished Engineer in Google 2004-2015
Peter Chane, Director in Chrome OS 2009-2013.
David Ko, Director of Pay, 2017-2021
Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow
John Anderson, a Research scientist at Google.
Jay Yagnik, Google Fellow, VP of Google AI.
Michael Miebach, CEO of Mastercard
Domagoj Babic, Senior Staff Engineer in Goole.
Sandeep Menon, VP in Payments and NBU 2019-2022