Neeti Mehta Shukla is the Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Brand and Culture at Automation Anywhere - A robotic process automation (RPA) company based out of San Jose, California.

Neeti is an avid strategist with more than 20 years of business management, technology marketing, and entrepreneurial experience. A visionary and advocate of bot ethics, she's one of only five women globally who've founded companies worth more than USD $2 billion.

Automation Anywhere recently raised $290 million in series B funding at a post-money valuation of $6.8 billion. Salesforce Ventures led the round, with additional contributions from existing investors, including SoftBank Investment Advisers and Goldman Sachs. This brings Automation Anywhere’s total raised to date to $840 million.

In this episode, Neeti talks to us about:

- How Automation Anywhere came into being

- How the core founding team went about defining and validating the MVP

- Personality traits one should look for in co-founders

- Neeti’s thoughts on obtaining VC funding

- D&I and it’s is importance in building inclusive products

- And more…

We hope you enjoy this episode. We'd love to hear from you - so do drop us a line at [email protected]!

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