# Deepti Yenireddy

> Deepti Yenireddy is the founder and CEO of Boon, an enterprise AI company focused on construction workflows. An IIT Madras electrical engineering graduate and second-time founder, she began in oil-field instrumentation, moved through finance and product leadership, built recruiting automation startup My Ally through its acquisition by Phenom, led product at Samsara, and then founded Boon. Across those chapters, her public philosophy has stayed consistent: work closely with users, make AI's reasoning inspectable, and turn repetitive expert work into reviewed, accountable workflows.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Boon
- **Organizations:** Boon, Samsara, Phenom, My Ally, Shell, Schlumberger, USGT Investors, Oppenheimer Funds
- **From:** Hyderabad, India
- **Education:** B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, MBA in Finance, Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business
- **Known for:** Built My Ally, an AI recruiting automation company acquired by Phenom in 2020., Led product work at Samsara, including the telematics business unit and international products., Founded Boon and raised $20.5 million across seed and Series A financing announced in December 2024.

## Career timeline

- **2006** — Joined Schlumberger, building and running hardware tools to collect oil-and-gas data.
- **2008** — Joined Shell and collected and interpreted data from hardware tools across international assignments.
- **2009-2014** — Completed an MBA and worked in investment roles, including Oppenheimer Funds and USGT Investors.
- **2015** — Co-founded My Ally, initially an AI executive assistant and later a recruiting automation platform.
- **2020** — My Ally was acquired by Phenom; Yenireddy became VP of Product for Conversational AI.
- **2021-2023** — Served as a senior product leader at Samsara, including leadership of telematics and international products.
- **2023** — Founded Boon.
- **2024** — Boon announced $20.5 million in seed and Series A funding, including a $15.5 million Series A led by Marathon and Redpoint.
- **2026** — Boon publicly positioned its AI platform around construction and preconstruction workflows including takeoff, clash detection and bid analysis.

## Achievements

- Built My Ally, an AI recruiting automation company acquired by Phenom in 2020.
- Led product work at Samsara, including the telematics business unit and international products.
- Founded Boon and raised $20.5 million across seed and Series A financing announced in December 2024.
- Won a tennis gold medal while at IIT Madras.
- Built enterprise AI products used in recruiting, fleet operations and construction workflows.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Appeared on The Preconstruction Podcast to discuss Boon's AI estimator, visual review, published accuracy scores and human control.
- **2026-05** — Appeared on Builders, Budgets & Beers to discuss specialized AI for construction estimating, synthetic training data and the changing role of estimators.
- **2026-05** — Boon's public product focus includes construction takeoffs, clash detection, bid tracking, bid summaries and bid leveling.
- **2024-12** — Boon announced $20.5 million in total funding: a $15.5 million Series A and an earlier $5 million seed round.

## Links

- Website: https://www.getboon.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepti-yenireddy

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Last updated: 2026-08-18