Hari Menon

CEO and co-founder @ Firstshift.ai | AI-powered Supply Chain

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Jan 2022
Gleantap is an intelligent customer experience platform for fitness & wellness clubs helping them leverage data to run powerful sales & marketing campaigns. Gleantap streamlines communication between brand and customers across multiple functions with contextual data, AI & automations so businesses drive 2x more conversions on leads and retain more customers.
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Sep 2017
Sepsis Alliance Saves lives by raising awareness of sepsis as a medical emergency and support those impacted by this devastating disease. Some Facts: 1. Sepsis is the #3 cause of death in the U.S. 2. Sepsis is the #1 cost for U.S. hospitals 3. Sepsis is the leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals 4. 80% of sepsis cases arrive at the hospital 5. Sepsis is preventable and treatable in most cases About Sepsis Alliance: Sepsis Alliance is the leading sepsis organization in the U.S., working in all 50 states to save lives and reduce suffering by raising awareness of sepsis as a medical emergency. The organization was founded in 2007 by Carl Flatley, D.D.S., M.S.D., whose daughter Erin unnecessarily died of sepsis when she was 23 years old. ​ In 2011, Sepsis Alliance designated September as Sepsis Awareness Month to bring healthcare professional and community members together in the fight against sepsis. Sepsis Alliance gives a voice to the millions of people who have been touched by sepsis – to the survivors, and the friends and family members of those who have survived or who have died. Sepsis Alliance is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization and a GuideStar Gold Rated Charity. For more information, please visit www.sepsis.org.
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2022
CEO and co-founder
Jul 2022
Are you overwhelmed by supply chain complexities and bogged down by manual spreadsheet-driven processes that introduce risk? Is your customer service suffering? Too much of the wrong inventory and not enough of the right stuff? Its time to transform your business with the Firstshift AI-powered supply chain planning platform. Firstshifts innovative planning platform leverages generative AI to automate tedious tasks and accelerate actionable insights, to free up your valuable resources, allowing you to scale without compromising quality, overloading your team or incurring unnecessary risks. Experience greater confidence and faster decision-making that comes from new insights to drive your business forward. The Firstshift platform provides comprehensive supply chain planning and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) to harness big data and optimize inventory investments while achieving your customer service goals. No more risky guesswork or excess inventory that ties up your working capital. With the Firstshift digital supply chain platform, youll accelerate decision-making, unlock profitable growth opportunities, and efficiently scale your business. In todays tight labor market, it can be challenging to recruit and retain high-demand supply chain planning experts who can manage all aspects of your supply chain. Firstshifts Supply Chain Planning as a Service (SCPaaS) gives you the option to leverage our trusted experts in S&OP, demand, inventory, and supply planning to help accelerate business results, reduce operational expenditures, and achieve a tangible return on investment faster. Say goodbye to risky spreadsheets, rigid solutions, and long IT projects that fail to deliver results. Firstshift delivers a rapid return on investment and sustainable business results tuned to the latest market conditions. From intuitive onboarding to real-time visibility, Firstshift enables you to make confident decisions, scale operations, and drive profitable growth.
Board Member
Jan 2022
Gleantap is an intelligent customer experience platform for fitness & wellness clubs helping them leverage data to run powerful sales & marketing campaigns. Gleantap streamlines communication between brand and customers across multiple functions with contextual data, AI & automations so businesses drive 2x more conversions on leads and retain more customers.
2020
Co-Founder and Group President
Jan 2020
Built on AI and no-code technologies, JIFFY.ais full-stack platform enables banks, financial services companies, and Fortune 500 organizations to solve their pressing operational and efficiency challenges. Our ready-to-deploy HyperApps help business users to improve customer experience and realize the true value of digital transformation in a fast-tracked timeline.
Co-founder and Group President
Jan 2020
Paanini is a global automation player offering true Big Data based, AI-powered intelligent and integrated platform for the modern-day digital enterprise. It’s enterprise-level, Platform for Innovation will give birth to the business innovation layer on top of the enterprise application stack paving way for every user to develop their ideas into applications real-time reinventing digitization. Paanini’s solution Jiffy.ai utilizes bots to automate tasks within a company’s daily workflow that would otherwise be performed by the company’s employees. Jiffy.ai saves time by eliminating the need for employees to conduct tedious tasks across the enterprise. Jiffy.ai is a great combination of intuitive, intelligent and integrated Automation along with Intelligent Document Processing and Smart Analytics forms the trifecta and couple it along with People and Processes, provides the single stack automation hub with Human-in-the-Loop. Paanini has niche fortune, 100 clients and noteworthy partners. Its presence spans across the US, Middle East, South East Asia and India (known by the name of Paanini Innovations India Limited). Paanini’s mission is in re-inventing Digitization for the modern-day enterprise with a deep sense of founded purpose. Paanini’s Jiffy.ai has been named by Gartner in its first Magic Quadrant for RPA Software. HFS Research has named Jiffy.ai as Hottest of Hot Vendors and most recently it has also been in the top 10 RPA software products rating declared recently. Economic Times also has rated it as one of ‘The Most Promising Brands’ for 2019. Paanini believes in the power of advancing computing in a big way while being extremely conscious of the social impact of disruptive changes. We believe in being a truly responsible innovator. More information on the organization available at: www.paanini.com
2017
Board Member
Sep 2017
Sepsis Alliance Saves lives by raising awareness of sepsis as a medical emergency and support those impacted by this devastating disease. Some Facts: 1. Sepsis is the #3 cause of death in the U.S. 2. Sepsis is the #1 cost for U.S. hospitals 3. Sepsis is the leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals 4. 80% of sepsis cases arrive at the hospital 5. Sepsis is preventable and treatable in most cases About Sepsis Alliance: Sepsis Alliance is the leading sepsis organization in the U.S., working in all 50 states to save lives and reduce suffering by raising awareness of sepsis as a medical emergency. The organization was founded in 2007 by Carl Flatley, D.D.S., M.S.D., whose daughter Erin unnecessarily died of sepsis when she was 23 years old. ​ In 2011, Sepsis Alliance designated September as Sepsis Awareness Month to bring healthcare professional and community members together in the fight against sepsis. Sepsis Alliance gives a voice to the millions of people who have been touched by sepsis – to the survivors, and the friends and family members of those who have survived or who have died. Sepsis Alliance is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization and a GuideStar Gold Rated Charity. For more information, please visit www.sepsis.org.
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