# Jasdeep Cheema

> Jasdeep Cheema is a New York-based co-founder and chief revenue officer of Privado AI, a privacy-automation company built around a simple observation: questionnaires and manually assembled data maps age faster than modern software changes. His path runs from aircraft maintenance through a restaurant-music startup to privacy technology, where he and his co-founders turned a stale engineering report into a product thesis centered on continuous code, web, app and documentation scanning.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Privado AI
- **Organizations:** Privado AI, Gaana Jukebox Studio, Jukebox Studio, Trilogy Ventures Pvt Ltd, Cathay Pacific Airways, Kingfisher Airlines
- **Education:** Aircraft engineering, airframe mechanics and aircraft maintenance technology, Director General of Civil Aviation, Government of India, High school, Army School
- **Known for:** Co-founded Privado AI with Vaibhav Antil and Prashant Mahajan., Helped shape Privado's thesis after eight months of customer research and a seven-month data-mapping engagement exposed how quickly engineering reports become outdated., Helped Privado raise $17.5 million across its 2022 seed and Series A rounds.

## Career timeline

- **2010-2011** — Worked as an aircraft technician at Kingfisher Airlines.
- **2011-2012** — Worked as an aircraft maintenance mechanic at Cathay Pacific Airways.
- **2012-2013** — Served as co-founder and operations head at Trilogy Ventures Pvt Ltd.
- **2014-2020** — Co-founded Jukebox Studio, a background-music and engagement service for venues; the business was acquired by Gaana.
- **2018-2020** — Worked as business lead at Gaana Jukebox Studio.
- **2020-present** — Co-founded Privado AI and now serves as its chief revenue officer.
- **2022** — Privado raised a $3.5 million seed round followed by a $14 million Series A, bringing disclosed funding to $17.5 million.
- **2022** — Privado open-sourced its privacy code-scanning solution.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Privado AI with Vaibhav Antil and Prashant Mahajan.
- Helped shape Privado's thesis after eight months of customer research and a seven-month data-mapping engagement exposed how quickly engineering reports become outdated.
- Helped Privado raise $17.5 million across its 2022 seed and Series A rounds.
- Helped launch an open-source privacy code scanner that detects personal-data processing and maps flows from collection points to data sinks.
- Previously co-founded Jukebox Studio, a venue music service later acquired by Gaana.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Scheduled to join a breakout discussion on lessons from 2026 privacy enforcement at the IAB Privacy Compliance Salon in Seattle.
- **2026-03** — Publicly introduced Wren, Privado AI's AI privacy analyst for running assessment workflows from intake through risk tracking.
- **2025-10** — Privado AI launched agentic assessments and expanded dynamic data-map capabilities for runtime and third-party software scanning.
- **2025-02** — Privado AI's second Bridge Summit drew more than 1,500 privacy professionals from over 60 countries.

## Links

- Website: https://www.privado.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasdeep-cheema-0b28009a

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Last updated: 2026-09-27