# Babak Pahlavan

> Babak Pahlavan is the Founder, CEO & CPO of NinjaTech AI, the company behind MyNinja.ai — an autonomous AI executive assistant designed to handle real work on behalf of professionals. A serial entrepreneur who immigrated from Iran, earned dual honors degrees from UC Berkeley and Stanford, and sold his first AI startup CleverSense to Google in 2011, Babak spent 11 years as Senior Director of Product Management at Google leading 20+ teams before leaving in 2022 to build what he calls 'TaskGPT' — AI that doesn't just advise but actually does the work.

- **Role:** Founder, CEO & CPO at NinjaTech AI
- **Organizations:** NinjaTech AI, Google, CleverSense, SRI Ventures
- **From:** Iran
- **Nationality:** Iranian-American
- **Education:** BS in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (dual degree, with honors), UC Berkeley, MS in Electrical Engineering (emphasis: CS & Data Mining, with honors), Stanford University
- **Known for:** Sold CleverSense to Google in 2011 — one of the earliest AI assistant acquisitions by a major tech company, Led 20+ product teams at Google over 11 years as Senior Director of Product Management, Winner of Google Manager Award

## Career timeline

- **~2000** — Immigrated to the United States from Iran at age 17
- **~2004** — Graduated UC Berkeley with dual BS in EE & CS with honors
- **~2006** — Graduated Stanford with MS in EE (data mining) with honors
- **2008** — Founded CleverSense, an AI-powered personalized local recommendation assistant — his first startup
- **2011** — Google acquired CleverSense (December 2011); technology integrated into Google Maps personalization layer
- **2011** — Joined Google as Senior Director of Product Management
- **2011-2022** — Led 20+ product teams at Google including Google Analytics, Data Studio, A/B Optimizers, Security/HR/Legal solutions
- **2022** — Left Google in October; joined SRI Ventures as Entrepreneur-in-Residence
- **2022** — Co-founded NinjaTech AI in October with Sam Naghshineh (ex-Meta) and Arash Sadrieh (ex-AWS)
- **2023** — NinjaTech AI team tripled in size; launched MyNinja.ai beta; raised seed funding
- **2024** — MyNinja.ai reached 722K monthly active users and 55K daily active users
- **2024** — Raised $5M seed round (last raise: May 2024); backed by SRI, DCVC, Candou Ventures
- **2025** — Launched SuperNinja 3.0 with long-running self-evolving collaborative AI agents; AWS CEO Matt Garman publicly recognized NinjaTech AI

## Achievements

- Sold CleverSense to Google in 2011 — one of the earliest AI assistant acquisitions by a major tech company
- Led 20+ product teams at Google over 11 years as Senior Director of Product Management
- Winner of Google Manager Award
- Built MyNinja.ai to 722K monthly active users and 55K daily active users
- SuperNinja agents autonomously built a full murder mystery game (8,000+ lines of code) in 12 hours with zero human-written code
- Recognized by AWS CEO Matt Garman in public keynote
- Named one of CIOReview's Top Generative AI Platforms 2025
- Fourth serial entrepreneur with multiple successful ventures

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — SuperNinja agents recognized by AWS CEO Matt Garman in a public keynote; Babak shared the news on LinkedIn
- **2025-03** — Launched Super Agent, a powerful AI workforce feature for NinjaTech AI
- **2024-08** — MyNinja.ai powered by new agentic model; platform milestone updates shared publicly
- **2024-05** — Raised seed funding ($5M total); last raise recorded May 2024 from SRI, DCVC, Candou Ventures
- **2024-06** — MyNinja.ai reached 722K monthly active users and 55K daily active users

## Links

- Website: https://myninja.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/babakp

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