Roli Saxena

CEO & Board Member | ex-LinkedIn and Brex

📍 Stanford, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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Chief Executive Officer and Board Member
Nov 2022
AdRoll is a connected advertising platform built for growth-minded marketers. With powerful AI, flexible campaign tools, and seamless integrations, AdRoll helps mid-sized businesses turn complexity into clarity and clicks into customers. The AdRoll platform delivers full-funnel performance through multi-channel advertising, audience insights, and cross-channel attribution, supporting marketers across industries including ecommerce, technology, financial services, education, and more. For B2B teams, our AdRoll ABM product extends these capabilities with account-based precision, multi-touch campaigns, and real-time buyer intelligence. Backed by nearly 20 years of data and award-winning support, AdRoll enables marketing teams to advertise smarter, move faster, and achieve more, all from one place. We’re shaping the future of digital advertising with privacy-forward solutions, including cookieless targeting and innovative identity resolution, to ensure marketers can connect with buyers in a way that’s both effective and trusted. AdRoll is a brand of NextRoll, Inc., a remote-friendly company based in San Francisco, CA.
Investing Partner
Mar 2021
The Neythri Futures Fund is a historic first fund with a mission to increase the diversity quotient in the venture capital ecosystem. The Neythri Futures Fund positions South Asian women front and center as key investors and stakeholders and offers an opportunity to amplify their influence and catalyze innovation. The Fund offers a distinct and differentiated advantage to the startups it invests in - access to the diverse, talent network of its LP base that is composed of senior executives, operators, investors, and board members who are committed to the success of these companies. The Neythri Futures Fund will invest in tech-enabled, venture scale startups led by diverse teams.
Independent Board Member
Jul 2018
Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day. Culture Amp is backed by leading capital venture funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company. For more information visit cultureamp.com.
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2022
Chief Executive Officer and Board Member
Nov 2022
AdRoll is a connected advertising platform built for growth-minded marketers. With powerful AI, flexible campaign tools, and seamless integrations, AdRoll helps mid-sized businesses turn complexity into clarity and clicks into customers. The AdRoll platform delivers full-funnel performance through multi-channel advertising, audience insights, and cross-channel attribution, supporting marketers across industries including ecommerce, technology, financial services, education, and more. For B2B teams, our AdRoll ABM product extends these capabilities with account-based precision, multi-touch campaigns, and real-time buyer intelligence. Backed by nearly 20 years of data and award-winning support, AdRoll enables marketing teams to advertise smarter, move faster, and achieve more, all from one place. We’re shaping the future of digital advertising with privacy-forward solutions, including cookieless targeting and innovative identity resolution, to ensure marketers can connect with buyers in a way that’s both effective and trusted. AdRoll is a brand of NextRoll, Inc., a remote-friendly company based in San Francisco, CA.
Chief Executive Officer and Board Member
Oct 2022
NextRoll is a marketing technology company delivering products ambitious companies use and rely on to grow their businesses. Powered by machine learning and integrated data platforms, NextRoll’s technology serves tens of thousands of businesses globally through its business units: RollWorks, an account-based platform for business-to-business marketing and sales teams, and AdRoll, an ecommerce marketing platform for growing direct-to-consumer brands. NextRoll is a privately-held company headquartered in San Francisco, CA. To learn more visit nextroll.com. We are committed to building diverse teams of “Rollers” and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, sex, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.
2021
Investing Partner
Mar 2021
The Neythri Futures Fund is a historic first fund with a mission to increase the diversity quotient in the venture capital ecosystem. The Neythri Futures Fund positions South Asian women front and center as key investors and stakeholders and offers an opportunity to amplify their influence and catalyze innovation. The Fund offers a distinct and differentiated advantage to the startups it invests in - access to the diverse, talent network of its LP base that is composed of senior executives, operators, investors, and board members who are committed to the success of these companies. The Neythri Futures Fund will invest in tech-enabled, venture scale startups led by diverse teams.
2018
Independent Board Member
Jul 2018
Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day. Culture Amp is backed by leading capital venture funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company. For more information visit cultureamp.com.
2015
Vice President - Revenue (Sales, Success), Support, Partnerships and Strategy
Nov 2015
We believe technology is a powerful lever to make education equitable for all and the fastest way to improve educational outcomes now. Clever is on a mission to unlock new ways to learn for all students. More than 75% of U.S. K-12 schools now use Clever to simplify access and improve engagement with digital learning. With our free platform for schools and a network of leading application providers, we’re committed to advancing educational equity. Clever has offices in San Francisco, CA and Durham, NC but you can visit us at clever.com anytime or follow us on Twitter @Clever. Together, we’re solving extremely challenging problems that the education system has been facing for decades. It’s important that we also enjoy the journey. At Clever, we create a space for purposeful collaboration and plenty of fun. Our Culture Tenets encourage every person on our team to learn, grow, and create change at work. We go to work every day striving to improve education for millions of kids. Join us!
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