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Biography
Prashant Fuloria is a seasoned tech executive who has played senior leadership roles at companies across the consumer internet (Yahoo, Google, Facebook), mobile developer platforms (Flurry), and AI-driven fintech (Fundbox). He is a sought-after advisor who has advised companies in fields as diverse as executive recruiting (Spencer Stuart), musical instruments (Fender), energy tech (Bidgely), crowdfunding (Patreon), and advertising tech (Singapore Telecom). He is also a regular lecturer at leading business schools, teaching popular MBA courses in building consumer internet businesses.
He is currently CEO at Fundbox, the leading provider of embedded capital solutions for small businesses. Backed by investors such as Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst, Fundbox partners with companies like Intuit and Stripe to deliver working capital to SMBs using their platforms. Under Fuloria’s leadership, Fundbox has crossed $100M in annual revenue and $1B in equity valuation.
Before joining Fundbox, he was senior vice president of advertising and data at Yahoo, reporting to the CEO and managing the 1300-person engineering, product and UX teams driving Yahoo’s $5B/year advertising business. Fuloria joined Yahoo through the acquisition of Flurry, the world’s leading mobile app analytics platform, supporting over 100,000 monthly active developers and over 2B monthly active mobile devices. At Flurry, he was chief product officer, responsible for product strategy and delivery. Fuloria played a critical role in the Flurry acquisition and led the highly successful integration of Flurry’s product and business into Yahoo’s, helping create a new $300M/year mobile advertising revenue stream.
Prior to Flurry, he was senior director of product management at Facebook. Fuloria was responsible for all of Facebook's advertising products during a period of intense 2.5X year-over-year growth, which saw the company cross the $1B/year and $2B/year revenue milestones. He also managed Facebook Credits, an attempt to monetize the Facebook platform that achieved a $500M/year revenue run-rate within just two years of its launch.
Before joining Facebook, Fuloria was product director at Google, where he most recently managed all of Google's products (search, ads, apps) for the Asia-Pacific region (including CJK, AU/NZ, South and Southeast Asia). He also worked for several years building monetization products at Google, both as an early product manager on Google AdWords and then as the first product director for Google’s global billing and payments platform.
He holds a PhD and an MA in business, a PhD minor in operations research and an MS in statistics, all from Stanford University. Before joining Stanford, Fuloria studied at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, where he was awarded the President of India's Gold Medal, the most prestigious undergraduate engineering award in the country.
He is an avid guitarist, currently playing with the Silicon Valley tech exec band, Coverflow. While in college, Fuloria played guitar for Euphoria, which became India's largest-selling rock band. He lives in Los Altos, CA, with his wife, a fellow IIT Delhi and Stanford graduate, and their two children.
Recent Courses
- NBA 6690 - Building a Consumer Internet Business
Academic Degrees
- PhD Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 2000
- MA Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 2000
- MS School of Humanities and Science, Stanford University, 1998
- Btech Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 1996