# Shiva Nathan

> Shiva Nathan is the founder and CEO of Onymos, a Palo Alto software company he started in 2017 to end the endless rebuilding of the same app plumbing. A former head of Intuit's Platform and Services organization who also held engineering leadership roles at Oracle and CA, he built Onymos around a 'Features-as-a-Service' model that lets companies drop in login, payments, notifications and other features without handing over their data. Onymos has since expanded into AI-driven document processing for healthcare and life sciences through its DocKnow platform, including a collaboration with Mayo Clinic.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Onymos
- **Organizations:** Onymos, Intuit, Oracle, CA Technologies
- **Nationality:** American (of Indian origin)
- **Education:** Bachelor's degree with honors in Computer Engineering, BITS Pilani, MBA, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
- **Known for:** Founded Onymos, described as the creator of the first 'Features-as-a-Service' platform, Named CEO of the Year in the 2024 Mobile Breakthrough Awards, Led Intuit's Platform and Services organization powering TurboTax and QuickBooks

## Career timeline

- **pre-2017** — Held technical and engineering leadership positions at CA and Oracle
- **pre-2017** — Head of Intuit's Platform and Services organization, defining the cloud-hosted platform behind products like TurboTax and QuickBooks
- **2017** — Founded Onymos in Palo Alto to end repetitive app-feature engineering
- **2022** — Onymos raised a $12M Series A round
- **2024** — Named CEO of the Year in the 8th annual Mobile Breakthrough Awards
- **2026** — Onymos announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to apply its DocKnow platform to clinical document processing

## Achievements

- Founded Onymos, described as the creator of the first 'Features-as-a-Service' platform
- Named CEO of the Year in the 2024 Mobile Breakthrough Awards
- Led Intuit's Platform and Services organization powering TurboTax and QuickBooks
- Raised a $12M Series A for Onymos
- Expanded Onymos into AI document processing for healthcare, including a Mayo Clinic collaboration

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Onymos announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to advance intelligent document processing for healthcare using its DocKnow platform.
- **2024** — Recognized as CEO of the Year in the 8th annual Mobile Breakthrough Awards.

## Links

- Website: https://onymos.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/shivaguru
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/_shivanathan
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i83w1U_cjYM
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/onymosinc/

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Last updated: 2026-07-29