Dinesh Moorjani


Dinesh Moorjani is a serial technology founder & CEO, venture capital investor, and professor. He founded Time Zero Capital to advance responsible technology innovation. Dinesh has founded several technology companies including Hatch Labs Inc., where he served as Chairman & CEO and cofounded Tinder (NASDAQ: MTCH) in 2012. Dinesh launched numerous technology startups including Saffronart, a global eCommerce marketplace for Indian fine art and collectibles backed by Sequoia Capital, where he continues to serve on the board. Dinesh cofounded Kleverbeast—a mobile application development SaaS, and Monet Analytics—an AI platform that decodes human emotion.
Dinesh is also a founding advisor for dozens of technology startups. Dinesh has 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 leadership roles at Samsung Electronics in the US and Asia.

He built his early career in the Global Energy Practice at AD Little, in investment management at Goldman Sachs, and as an early employee at Mainspring (IPO 2000, acquired by IBM 2001). 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 served on the board of directors of Zoox (acquired by Amazon), a leader in autonomous vehicles. Dinesh served as an advisor to Warburg Pincus, the global private equity firm, where he was previously an EIR, co-investing alongside the firm and serving in a governance capacity on portfolio company boards.

Dinesh is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and regularly guest lectures at Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. Dinesh serves on the Harvard Business School California Research Center Advisory Board and serves as an Affiliate Researcher in the Urban Informatics Lab in the Engineering Department at Stanford University. He supports disenfranchised youth and education through his non-profit work on the board of the United Friends of the Children, the Organization for Social Media Safety, and the USTA Foundation. Dinesh is also a board trustee at the University of California, Merced.Dinesh earned his BS in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University, his MBA from Harvard Business School, and his Engineering PhD from Stanford University.