2x founder

Nikki Dansey

Co-Founder/CTO at Straia

Co-founder

Straia· Speedrun 006 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

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2026Co-founder· Straia

Founder · since 2022

Company

Straia

Role

Co-Founder + CTO

current

Stage

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Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Straia

The agentic AI platform for higher education ($4.5M cARR in 4 weeks)

Speedrun 006

Experience

Career

Straia
Co-founder
Co-Founder + CTO · 2026 – Present
2026
The Trade Desk
Senior Software Engineer · 2025 – 2026
2025
The Trade Desk
Software Engineer · 2024 – 2026
2024
Arcus
Head of Product Engineering · 2023 – 2024
2023
SageSpot
Co-founder
Co-Founder & CTO · New York City Metropolitan Area · 2022 – 2023
2022
The Trade Desk
Software Engineer II · 2019 – 2021
2019
Berkeley Business Society
Executive Board · 2017 – 2018
2017
Berkeley Business Society
Consultant · 2015 – 2017
2015

Bio

Co-Founder and CPO of Straia. Previously, co-founded SageSpot (Khosla-backed) as CTO, first hire at Arcus (acquired by Addepar), and built the first AI-native programmatic platform in advertising at The Trade Desk. Studied computer science at UC Berkeley and have spent my career at the intersection of engineering and product.