# Krishna Gade

> Krishna Gade is the co-founder and CEO of Fiddler AI, a Palo Alto-based enterprise AI observability and control platform that has raised over $112 million in funding. Before founding Fiddler in 2018, he built data infrastructure at scale at Microsoft/Bing, Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook - where he led the team that created the industry's first large-scale AI explainability feature, 'Why am I seeing this?' in News Feed. Fiddler AI sits at the intersection of AI transparency, model monitoring, and governance, serving Fortune 500 companies, the US Navy, and organizations that need to trust the decisions their AI systems make.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Fiddler AI
- **Organizations:** Fiddler AI, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Microsoft, Bing
- **From:** India
- **Nationality:** Indian-American
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Acharya Nagarjuna University, MS, Computer Science, University of Minnesota
- **Known for:** Led creation of 'Why am I seeing this?' at Facebook - industry's first large-scale AI explainability feature deployed to billions of users, Co-founded Fiddler AI, which raised over $112 million in funding including strategic investments from Lockheed Martin, Amazon Alexa Fund, In-Q-Tel (US intelligence community), and Mozilla Ventures, Scaled Pinterest's data engineering team from 2 to 25+ engineers and built infrastructure handling hundreds of petabytes

## Career timeline

- **2004-2009** — Software Development Engineer at Microsoft/Bing - built search index quality, static rank, web spam detection, query suggestions, and contextual ads infrastructure
- **2010-2013** — Engineering Leader at Twitter - led web search and real-time search engines, built streaming data infrastructure with Apache Storm
- **2013-2016** — Head of Data Engineering at Pinterest - scaled team from 2 to 25+ engineers, built real-time analytics, A/B testing, and petabyte-scale logging infrastructure
- **2016-2018** — Engineering Manager at Facebook - led News Feed Ranking Platform team, spearheaded creation of 'Why am I seeing this?' - the industry's first large-scale AI explainability feature
- **2018** — Co-founded Fiddler AI (initially Fiddler Labs) in October with Amit Paka and Manoj Cheenath; raised $3M seed led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
- **2020** — Fiddler AI raises $10.2M Series A
- **2021** — Fiddler AI raises $32M Series B led by Insight Partners; strategic investments from Lockheed Martin, Amazon Alexa Fund, and In-Q-Tel
- **2022** — Launched giga-scale model performance management; spoke at Amazon re:MARS in Las Vegas
- **2023** — Spoke at COLLIDE 2023 on Generative AI meets Responsible AI; company reaches $9.3M revenue with 75-person team
- **2024** — Series B extension raises $18.6M bringing total Series B to $50M; expanded to LLM observability and guardrails
- **2025** — Acquired Lumeus.ai to expand AI Control Plane to cover AI agents and coding assistants
- **2026** — Raised $30M Series C led by RPS Ventures; total funding exceeds $112M; positioned as control plane for the AI agent economy

## Achievements

- Led creation of 'Why am I seeing this?' at Facebook - industry's first large-scale AI explainability feature deployed to billions of users
- Co-founded Fiddler AI, which raised over $112 million in funding including strategic investments from Lockheed Martin, Amazon Alexa Fund, In-Q-Tel (US intelligence community), and Mozilla Ventures
- Scaled Pinterest's data engineering team from 2 to 25+ engineers and built infrastructure handling hundreds of petabytes
- Built Twitter's real-time search and streaming data infrastructure using Apache Storm
- Fiddler AI serves Fortune 500 companies and US government organizations including the US Navy
- First company to offer a unified AI control plane at both agent creation layer and runtime layer
- Pioneered the AI observability category before it became mainstream
- Speaker at Amazon re:MARS, NYSE Floor Talk, Montgomery Summit, MachineCon, and major AI conferences globally

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Fiddler AI raised $30M Series C led by RPS Ventures to power the control plane for AI agents; total funding exceeds $112M
- **2025-01** — Fiddler AI acquired Lumeus.ai to expand its AI Control Plane to cover AI agents and coding assistants
- **2024-12** — Series B extension closes at $18.6M with participation from Cisco Investments, Samsung NEXT, and Mozilla Ventures bringing Series B to $50M total
- **2025-05** — Krishna Gade featured as speaker at MachineCon 2025

## Links

- Website: https://fiddler.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishnagade/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/krishnagade
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@krishnagade5234

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Last updated: 2026-05-25