Dinesh Moorjani is a serial tech founder & CEO, investor, researcher, and adjunct professor. He is the founding partner of Time Zero Capital, a venture capital fund investing in responsible innovation. Dinesh was the founder and CEO of Hatch Labs Inc., where he founded numerous software companies from ground up. He cofounded Tinder (NASDAQ: MTCH) in 2012. Dinesh served as an independent board director at Alight (NYSE: ALIT) and on the advisory boards of Fortune 500 companies including American Express, Assurant, and Cox Automotive. He held the board observer seat at Zoox, a leader in autonomous electric vehicles, acquired by Amazon. Dinesh served as an advisor to Warburg Pincus, the global private equity firm, where he was previously an EIR sitting on portfolio company boards and co-investing alongside the firm.
Dinesh is a lecturer at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and regularly guest lectures at Harvard, MIT, and Columbia. He serves on the Harvard Business School California Research Center Advisory Board.
Dinesh supports disenfranchised youth and education through his non-profit work as a board director at the United Friends of the Children and the Organization for Social Media Safety. He also serves as a board trustee at the University of California, Merced. Dinesh has started several other software businesses, including Saffronart - a profitable, leading global eCommerce marketplace for Indian fine art & collectibles, backed by Sequoia Capital. He cofounded Kleverbeast, a SaaS application development platform, and Monet Analytics, an AI SaaS business that decodes human emotion.
Dinesh served in numerous executive leadership roles at multinational corporations, including as Managing Director at Comcast Ventures, Sr. Vice President and Group Head of Mobility at IAC/InterActive Corp, and in various leadership roles at Samsung Electronics in the US and Asia. He began his early professional career in the Global Energy Practice at AD Little, where he conducted energy optimization modeling and environmental remediation for the energy industry. Dinesh further built his early career in investment management at Goldman Sachs and as an early employee at Mainspring (IPO 2000, acquired by IBM 2001). Prior to the private sector, Dinesh conducted novel bioremediation research to cleanse water contaminated with hazardous dichlorophenol by applying a pulsed electric discharge reactor followed by hydrocarbon bacterial metabolization.
Dinesh earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University and MBA from Harvard. He is also a PhD candidate at Stanford University, where his interdisciplinary research focuses on climate financing for deep tech innovation.
