# Suhail Abidi

> Suhail Abidi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cube (cubehq.ai), an autonomous AI marketing platform serving multi-location brands like KFC and Taco Bell. A chemical engineer from IIT Kanpur who won the Stanford Reliance Dhirubhai MBA Fellowship - full ride, no internship - he spent his Stanford summer learning to code instead of collecting a consulting paycheck. Before Cube, he built Tinystep into a 600,000-user parenting network that Flipkart backed with $2M and BabyChakra eventually acquired. He is a serial entrepreneur with a consistent pattern: spot a real problem, learn whatever skill is missing, build the company.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Cube
- **Organizations:** Cube, Tinystep, StudyRoom, SiliconPrime Technologies, PromptCloud Technologies, PricewaterhouseCoopers
- **From:** Lucknow, India
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** B.Tech, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, MBA (withdrew after one week), IIM Lucknow, MBA (Reliance Dhirubhai MBA Fellowship - full scholarship), Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Programming courses (JavaScript, HTML, C, SQL, databases), Stanford University School of Engineering
- **Known for:** Won Stanford Reliance Dhirubhai MBA Fellowship - full tuition and expenses scholarship, Built Tinystep to 600,000+ registered users as a Bangalore-based parenting app, Secured $2M investment in Tinystep from Flipkart (2017)

## Career timeline

- **~2007-2011** — Senior Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for four years
- **2011** — Co-founded SiliconPrime Technologies with Kelvin Tran; grew to offices in US, India, and Vietnam
- **2011-2013** — MBA at Stanford GSB on Reliance Dhirubhai Fellowship full scholarship; spent summer learning programming instead of interning
- **~2013** — Director at PromptCloud Technologies
- **2015** — Founded Tinystep in Bangalore - a parenting network app tracking developmental milestones
- **2016** — Tinystep raised seed funding from Flipkart and Silicon Valley investor Mathew Glickman
- **2017** — Tinystep raised $2M from Flipkart; expanded to iOS with 600,000+ users
- **~2019-2021** — Co-founded StudyRoom, an education technology platform
- **2022** — Tinystep acquired by BabyChakra (March)
- **2022** — Co-founded Cube with Ashish Ranjan and Abhinav Gupta; raised $1.7M seed round (November)
- **2023** — Cube expanded platform to include SEO and website development
- **2024** — Cube added social media marketing and email marketing products
- **2025** — Cube launched paid ads management; grew to 140 employees serving KFC, Taco Bell, and major chains

## Achievements

- Won Stanford Reliance Dhirubhai MBA Fellowship - full tuition and expenses scholarship
- Built Tinystep to 600,000+ registered users as a Bangalore-based parenting app
- Secured $2M investment in Tinystep from Flipkart (2017)
- Tinystep acquired by BabyChakra in March 2022
- Grew SiliconPrime Technologies to offices across three countries within one year
- Co-founded Cube and raised $1.7M seed round with investors including Sequoia Capital
- Landed enterprise clients KFC and Taco Bell for Cube's AI marketing platform
- Grew Cube to 140 employees in under three years

## Latest updates

- **2025** — Cube launched paid ads management product, rounding out its full-stack AI marketing suite
- **2025** — Cube serving major enterprise clients including KFC and Taco Bell across review management, SEO, and social
- **2022-11** — Cube raised $1.7M seed round from investors including Surge Ventures and Graph Ventures
- **2022-03** — Tinystep (previous company) acquired by BabyChakra, freeing Suhail to focus on Cube

## Links

- Website: https://cubehq.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suhail-abidi-28420b1a

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