Saket Mehta

Chief Revenue Officer | Sales & Partnerships Leader, Investor & Advisor, Adjunct Professor

📍 Los Angeles, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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2016
We create private spaces for fitness and wellness. Hydra Studios is a network of elevated wellness studios setting a new industry standard for self-care destinations post-COVID. We combine the highest standards of luxury and cleanliness by providing members private suites they can reserve for fitness, meditation, or simply a quiet place to recharge. Each suite is cleaned before and after each session and outfitted with HEPA air filters. Well-appointed locker rooms feature rainfall showers, steam rooms, infrared sauna, vanity stations, and curated personal care products. The studio’s experiential retail area offers a selection of predominantly sustainable products from female-founded companies.
Investor
2016
In 2009, we took the stance to reimagine what was once a stagnant staple and transform socks into one of fashion’s most exciting accessories. By unlocking the creative potential of an open canvas too often overlooked, we ignited a worldwide cultural movement that has attracted visionary artists, athletes and icons to embrace our positive message of individuality, movement and self-expression. In the years since, our vision has expanded from toe to head with a full line of colorful apparel styles for a life in motion… because why should feet have all the fun? Through a bold combination of technological innovation, superior comfort and fresh artistic design that has become the foundation of our brand, Stance apparel can now be found in over 40 countries for anyone looking to defy convention. We are Stitched Different®.
Investor
2014
At Cloudera, we believe that data can make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. We empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. Cloudera delivers an enterprise data cloud for any data, anywhere, from the Edge to AI. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the worlds largest enterprises. Learn more at Cloudera.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recruitment Fraud Alert It has come to our attention that job seekers have been contacted about fake job opportunities with Cloudera from individuals fraudulently posing as Cloudera employees. These recruiting fraud schemes often include requests for personal information and payments. Be aware that Cloudera will never request a payment as part of its recruitment process. Additionally, Cloudera will never make a job offer without conducting an interview process. Any information submitted to Cloudera in relation to a job application should only be through our official career portal (https://www.cloudera.com/careers.html). Email communications from Cloudera will come from an email address ending in @cloudera.com. If you are the target of a recruiting scam, consider filing a report with law enforcement authorities. Cloudera is not responsible for fraudulent job offers and/or any claims, damages, expenses, or other inconvenience connected to recruiting scams.
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2025
Executive in Residence
Mar 2025
Progress Partners is a Boston and New York-based corporate advisory firm that works with buyers and sellers of emerging growth companies to complete M&A or private placement transactions. Our deep industry experience, extensive network, and entrepreneurial backgrounds give us the ability to help our clients build and realize superior value. We specialize in four key sectors in the technology ecosystem. Within each of them, our expertise is derived from years of work as entrepreneurs, operators, investors, and mentors. As licensed investment bankers, that background has led us to approach our role as an intimate extension of our client’s management team. In that effort, we become stronger together. We are proud of our ability to recognize and execute upon the right transaction for a given client, rather than simply to be in pursuit of any deal that can be done. Every client engagement has different functional objectives and requires critical thought, but most often Progress Partners is pursuing one or more of the following missions: 1. Develop and implement strategic plans 2. Grow through acquisition of new customers 3. Obtain investment capital to accelerate growth 4. Realize returns through appropriate exit strategies Across our sector coverage, our impact as advisors originates in our ability to recognize characteristics that are inherent to the strongest companies in the market; products and services built from true market demand that solve critical problems, and are supported by fundamental business models. We succeed when our clients succeed. In order to realize this success we operate with full transparency, ready and willing to deliver frank feedback toward the essence of getting it right every time. Opportunities for Professionals: Please visit https://progresspartners.com/careers/ to learn more.
2024
IAB Commerce Board Member
Jan 2024
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) empowers the media and marketing industries to thrive in the digital economy. Its membership comprises more than 700 leading media companies, brands, agencies, and the technology firms responsible for selling, delivering, and optimizing digital ad marketing campaigns. The trade group fields critical research on interactive advertising, while also educating brands, agencies, and the wider business community on the importance of digital marketing. In affiliation with the IAB Tech Lab, IAB develops technical standards and solutions. IAB is committed to professional development and elevating the knowledge, skills, expertise, and diversity of the workforce across the industry. Through the work of its public policy office in Washington, D.C., the trade association advocates for its members and promotes the value of the interactive advertising industry to legislators and policymakers. Founded in 1996, IAB is headquartered in New York City.
2022
VP, Global Head, Advertising Partnerships & Strategy (Cash App & Afterpay)
Aug 2022
Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.
VP, Global Advertising Revenue & Partnerships
Aug 2022
It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic ecosystem, developing unique financial products, including Afterpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 47 million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world’s relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible. This is our mission, and it’s why working at Cash App means so much more than a job. Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative, productive, and happy.
2020
Head of Ads & Channel Partnerships
Dec 2020
Get it fast. Get it done. Get it right. 5,000 products in as fast as 15 minutes. Gopuff, the leader in instant commerce, offers a relevant and affordable assortment of household essentials, groceries, OTC medication, drinks, snacks and more, all brought to customers’ doors in as fast as 15 minutes from local micro-fulfillment centers. Founded in 2013 by co-CEOs Rafael Ilishayev and Yakir Gola, Gopuff leverages proprietary technology, national infrastructure and a hyper-local logistics network to offer unrivaled speed, reliability and affordability to customers across the U.S. and U.K. Interested in joining our team? Learn more and see open roles here: https://gopuff.com/go/careers
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