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Hello!

I'm an entrepreneur and student, currently finishing my bachelor's degree at Columbia University. I also work at Tilt, where I've been an early team member wearing many hats: business development, product, growth, and partnerships.

At Tilt, I helped launch Tilt Pro: a powerful and flexible crowdfunding tool. I also led successful partnerships with companies like Soylent, Lytro, Dick's Sporting Goods, Jamba Juice, and many more.

Before that, I left college to build a startup called FamilyLeaf with my friends and seed investment from Y Combinator. Our site was featured in the New York Times, USA Today, Inc Magazine and many others. We were acquired by Origami Labs (now eFamily.com) in early 2013.

I'm from Seattle (Bellevue), and now live in NYC after several years in San Francisco. You can read a bit more about me in a profile in the Seattle Times (but it's a few years old).

I love writing and journalism. My work has been published a couple times:

A story about India's budding religious e-commerce scene for New York magazine
A piece on Indian users of Quora I wrote for The Caravan magazine
Some lessons learned from my startup experiences for Elite Daily.

Here are links to my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Please feel free to email me: ajayumehta [at] gmail.com

Ajay Mehta