Company Info

Trubates is a place for you to shop for great deals in your locality. We work with the best local merchants to get you great offers on everything from tennis lessons, to spas, restaurants and automobile service.  

Trubates is backed by New Enterprise Associates (backers of over 650 companies including Bloom Energy, DataDomain, Financial Engines, etc) and Shasta Ventures (backers of Flock, Gowalla, Mint.com, etc).

Team

Anoop Bhattacharjya, CTO. Anoop has a strong background in pattern recognition, language analysis and signal processing. Previously, he worked at Epson Research and Carnegie Mellon University. Anoop has a Phd from RPI, B.Tech from IIT, Kanpur, and a broad range of patents and publications.

Brian Birkett, VP Business Development. Brian brings extensive experience in inside and outside sales, and sales management. His previous employers include Interwoven, the State of California and Yahoo!. Brian has a B.A. from American University.

Christopher Chan, VP Engineering. Chris has extensive experience in server and application software at SpikeSource, Apexon, Icarian, Vantive and Oracle. Chris has a B.S from University of California, Berkeley.

Nat Kausik, CEO. Nat has worked in academia and industry, including Arcot, Carnegie Mellon, Cisco, FineGround, HP. Nat has a PhD from Cornell, MSE from Princeton, B.Tech from IIT.

Andrew Urushima, VP Finance. Previously, Andrew was VP Finance of lala.com (acquired by Apple), Controller at Postini (acquired by Google) and VP Finance at Seven. Andrew has a B.S from the University of California, Berkeley.