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The Enterprise AI Platform Built by People Who Actually Get It

We've built the systems that power your business—VMware's virtualization, Google's infrastructure backbone, Splunk's observability engine, and Gusto's HR platform. We're solving for enterprise AI adoption because we want to equip brilliant leaders to make critical decisions with real data about what's actually happening.

The People Behind Lanai

United in Values, Driven by Purpose

Our team brings decades of experience scaling enterprise technologies that transform how organizations work. We've assembled teammates and advisors who understand the strategic imperative of balancing AI innovation with security—experts who've led infrastructure revolutions at scale and built the enterprise platforms used by millions today. We care deeply about empowering human potential through technology, and we care equally about how we do it—with enterprise-grade security, privacy by design, and unwavering commitment to customer success.

Leadership Team

Lexi Reese

Co-Founder, CEO

General Catalyst Expert in Residence - Future of Work & AI impact on large companies
COO at Gusto - Integrated payroll, benefits, and financial services into single compliance-first platform
VP at Google - Led programmatic advertising business with automated ML platform handling billions of decisions
Director American Express - Launched and led operations expanding access to capita
Member, Council on Foreign Relations, Fmr Harvard Business School Teaching Fellow

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Dr. Steve Herrod

Co-Founder, Chairman, Partner @ Juxtapose

Co-invented x86 Virtualization - Enabled cloud computing as we know it today
Built $12B VMware Platform - Powering AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure infrastructure
Led 3,000+ Engineers - Managed 15+ strategic acquisitions as CTO
Investor at General Catalyst & Juxtapose - Portfolio includes Armorblox, Illumio, Securiti.ai, SignalFx

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Rajesh Raman

Chief Technology Officer

Google Infrastructure Pioneer - Employee #400, built MDB (Machine Master Database) powering Google's global infrastructure for 20+ years
Facebook Scale-Up Leader - Led observability during pre-IPO hypergrowth, scaling monitoring from millions to billions of users
SignalFx Founding Architect - Built industry's first real-time cloud monitoring platform, processing millions of metrics per second (Acquired by Splunk for $1.05B)
Splunk Distinguished Architect - Led observability platform engineering for petabytes of enterprise machine data

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Mohit Mehta

Chief Product Officer

Head of Observability Products - Led Splunk to leader's quadrant in observability market
Product Lead at Cumulus Networks - Helped enterprises shift to software-defined networking (Acquired by NVIDIA)
SignalFx Product Leader - Re-imagined application observability for cloud applications
Two Decades Enterprise Experience - Transforming major technology shifts into enterprise-scale products

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Andrea Fang

Head of CX & Operations

Head of Customer & Operations + Chief of Staff - Lanai Software
Product Manager for HR Products - Gusto (Hiring tools, performance management, learning management)
Revenue Operations - Gusto (Driving quote to cash revenue platform and insights)
Customer Experience Operations - Gusto (Strategist to 1,000-person team driving world-class NPS and NRR)
New Product Development VP - J.P. Morgan (Created technology products on inaugural Corporate & Investment Bank R&D team)

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Advisors

Anu Bharadwaj

Current President - Atlassian (Led SaaS transformation & Cloud enterprise business)
Fmr. COO - Atlassian (Built Jira product family)
Fmr. Product Leader - Microsoft Visual Studio ALM
Operator Collective - Limited Partner

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Arjun Sambamoorthy

Co-founder & Chief Architect - Armorblox (Acquired by Cisco)
15+ Years Security Experience - Netskope, Juniper Networks
DLP & Network Security Expert - Awarded 2 patents
Security Researcher - Published at DefCon, ToorCon conferences

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Fredrick “Flee” Lee

Current CISO - Reddit
Fmr. CSO - Gusto
Fmr. Head of InfoSec - Square
Fmr. Director of Security - NetSuite

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Raghu Raghuram

Fmr. CEO - VMware ($12B SaaS/multi-cloud strategy; $61B Broadcom acquisition)
Fmr. COO, Products & Cloud - VMware
Current Advisor - Invisible Technologies, Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area

Yvonne Wassenaar

Fmr. CEO - Puppet & Airware
Fmr. CIO - New Relic
Current Board Member - Braze, Alation, JFrog & Rubrik
Lightspeed Venture Partners - Advisor

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Paul Sagan

Fmr. CEO - Akamai Technologies
Current Board Chair - ProPublica, Bugcrowd
Current Board Member - Moderna, Thomson Reuters
General Catalyst - Catalyst Advisor

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our values

The Code That Powers Everything We Do

Living our values enables us to foster trust, take risks, and achieve extraordinary results together:

Curiosity

We question openly, learn quickly, and share generously. You'll see this in our weekly learning shares, open feedback sessions, and celebration of intellectual humility.

In every room, an orange chair sits empty - reserved for our customers. This physical reminder ensures their perspective guides every decision we make, every problem we solve, and every innovation we pursue.

Community

We celebrate differences and unite in purpose. This shows up in our focus on hiring representative talent and supporting each other to bring what is different from our perspectives - not only what we have in common.

We live by the Platinum Rule: treating others as they want to be treated. This means walking in their shoes, understanding their journey, and honoring their unique experiences - because true inclusion starts with deep empathy.

Commitment

We have a 100% say/do ratio. Whether it's meeting deadlines, supporting teammates, or delivering for customers, we follow through.

We deliver on our word, 100% of the time. Our focus is crystal clear: 80% of our energy goes to delighting customers and building remarkable products, 20% to running smoothly inside. No exceptions, no excuses.

Clarity

We give clear, honest feedback because growth demands truth.

Every feedback conversation follows SBIF: name the Situation, describe the Behavior, explain the Impact, and suggest Forward actions. High performance requires both praise and constructive insights.

Join Lanai and Let’s Do The Best Work of Our Lives

We're not just building an AI platform—we're building a culture where we achieve great things in a way that we’re proud of. At Lanai, we fundamentally believe that breakthrough innovation comes from high-performance teams founded on deep trust.

Backed by Leading Investors

Juxtapose

A creation-stage investment firm where Lanai was concept developed.

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Lux Capital

A $5B venture fund with early investments in leading AI companies such as Hugging Face, Runway, and Modal.

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F7Ventures

A seed-stage venture fund founded by senior female operators from Meta.

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Bag Ventures

A pre-seed and seed-stage fund by former Google and Alphabet leaders, investing in visionary founders building AI-powered enterprise solutions and accelerating adoption through their network and expertise.

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Living Our Values

These aren't just aspirations—they're expectations that shape our daily behaviors

We are kind and candid. We lead with curiosity and empathy, earning our place by solving hard problems.

Impact Matters Most. Revenue = Customer Love. Profits = Ability to Serve Durably and Well. Costs = Incurred Mindfully and must have a purpose that will ultimately help win and wow customers.

We Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing We spend time building product and relationships. We keep administrivia at bay.

At Lanai, our mission to empower humans in the AI age begins with a fundamental truth: we can only serve our customers well if we ensure we actively seek and include many and different perspectives.

Say Do Ratio is 100%. We say what we’ll do, do what we say, share along the way.

Democratize AI AI & Work Series - Open Tech Talks with person sharing perspectives

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Thought Leadership

AI @ Work | Open Garage Sessions: From Pilot to Production with Zoetis CDAO J.D. Williams, Ph.D.

15 minutes with global enterprise leaders: what’s actually happening when companies use AI in the workplace. No jargon, no hype—just the reality of what works and what doesn’t.

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Thought Leadership

AI @ Work | Fireside Chat with Nikesh Arora, Palo Alto Networks CEO

"Everyone’s building a brain—but the biggest fear isn’t giving it control. It’s doing so without proper safeguards."

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Join us in building Something Extraordinary

If you're excited about Working with a team that values both high performance and deep trust Having direct impact on how the world's largest enterprises adopt AI Building alongside experienced leaders who've been in our customers' shoes, and Contributing to a culture where values drive behavior and success, then we want to hear from you.

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