Over the last 20 years, Navin Kaminoulu has been instrumental in building products at three $20B+ market cap large public companies, manoeuvred a turnaround for an early-stage mobile application business by growing revenues 500% in 3 years, and launched & sold a venture-backed computer vision artificial intelligence company to the world’s most widely used construction B2B SaaS platform.
Kaminoulu started his career in software where he was a business relationship manager for several products helping deliver $200M+ in digital transformation projects. In 2014, he joined GreenOwl Mobile where he directed the company’s hypergrowth leading to a strategic acquisition by Arcadis IBI Group (TSX: IBG). In 2017, he co-founded INDUS.AI, raised multiple rounds of venture capital, delivered hyper-growth, built & led several functions including Product, Go-To-Market (GTM), Customer Success & Finance, and guided the company’s strategic acquisition by Procore Technologies (PCOR: NYSE) in 2021. During his time at Procore, Navin led two $100M+ Annual recurring revenue (ARR) product lines helping contribute to the company’s market capitalization growth from $3B to $10B.
Kaminoulu is an Operating Advisor at Groundbreak Ventures, the country’s most active property technology investor. He also serves as board director for PLOT Communications and Sitemax Systems Inc. In addition, he supports various entrepreneurship ecosystems and the founder community at large. He is a board advisor for the University of California Riverside Design thinking program, is a mentor at StartX (Stanford University’s technology accelerator), acts as a venture scout for various Venture Capital funds, and is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Western University’s Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship Powered by Ivey, and York University’s Technology Accelerator. He also has advised several early-stage software companies in raising capital, product management, and Go-to-market. Navin holds a bachelor’s degree focused on Mathematics and Liberal Arts from the University of Western Ontario.
Navin Kaminoulu
Co-Founder & COO INDUS.AI, and Serial Entrepreneur