# Sudheesh Nair

> Sudheesh Nair is the cofounder and CEO of TinyFish, a Palo Alto company building enterprise web agents that let AI navigate, research, and extract data from the web at scale. He grew up in a lower-middle-class family in a small town in India before a teacher's nudge toward a campus interview set him on a path to the United States. He was an early employee and president of Nutanix, where he helped scale the company from zero to more than $1 billion in revenue and a 2016 IPO, then served as CEO of ThoughtSpot, steering it from on-premises BI to a cloud-native AI analytics platform. In 2024 he cofounded TinyFish, which launched publicly in 2025 with $47 million in funding and counts Google among its early customers.

- **Role:** Cofounder and CEO at TinyFish
- **Organizations:** TinyFish, ThoughtSpot, Nutanix, IBM, DataDirect Networks, OnStor, Zambeel
- **From:** India
- **Nationality:** Indian-American
- **Education:** Undergraduate studies, College in India
- **Known for:** Helped scale Nutanix from zero to more than $1 billion in annual revenue and a 2016 IPO., As Nutanix employee number 16 and first salesperson, built its go-to-market engine., As CEO, transitioned ThoughtSpot from on-premises BI to a cloud-native AI analytics company, reaching roughly $150M ARR.

## Career timeline

- **2000s** — Joined early-stage US technology startups, where he met future Nutanix cofounders.
- **2011** — Joined Nutanix as an early employee and its first salesperson.
- **2016** — Served as president of Nutanix and helped take the company public in its IPO.
- **2018** — Named CEO of ThoughtSpot.
- **2021** — Led ThoughtSpot's launch on Snowflake, part of its shift to a cloud-native AI analytics platform.
- **2024** — Cofounded TinyFish with Shuhao Zhang and Keith Zhai.
- **2025** — TinyFish launched publicly with $47 million in funding; Google named as an early customer.

## Achievements

- Helped scale Nutanix from zero to more than $1 billion in annual revenue and a 2016 IPO.
- As Nutanix employee number 16 and first salesperson, built its go-to-market engine.
- As CEO, transitioned ThoughtSpot from on-premises BI to a cloud-native AI analytics company, reaching roughly $150M ARR.
- Cofounded TinyFish and raised $47 million to build enterprise web agents.
- Secured Google as an early TinyFish customer for real-time web data extraction.

## Latest updates

- **2025-08** — TinyFish launched publicly with $47 million in funding to build enterprise web agents.
- **2025-10** — Spoke at TEDAI San Francisco as cofounder and CEO of TinyFish.
- **2026-03** — Appeared on CNBC's Fortt Knox to discuss TinyFish building web infrastructure for AI agents.

## Links

- Website: https://tinyfish.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudheenair/

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Last updated: 2026-07-24