Team
Luis Manrique
Employee #2 at Gumloop. Member of Technical Staff and Founding Unc. Led GTM, FDE, and data platforms (Gumball) through a $50M Series B led by Benchmark; closed $1.9M ARR with enterprise customers including Instacart, Shopify, and DoorDash.
Principal PM at Instacart on Ads and Carrot AI, Instacart's first AI team. Ten patents in ML, LLMs, and AI agent infrastructure.
Earlier: VP/SVP at VideoAmp, where he led the pivot that grew revenue from $5M to $50M. Co-founder of Ones and Zeros. Joined Google in 2013 via the Wildfire Interactive acquisition.
Aamir Poonawalla
Ten years at Instacart, most recently as Senior Software Development Manager leading the Ads Serving/Infra team. Co-invented an ad campaign pacing patent with Luis.
Earlier at Instacart: led the Curbside Pickup initiative on Logistics, growing from $0 to ~$4B in GTV.
Engineering tours at Pinterest via the URX acquisition, Microsoft (Skype, Yammer). Y Combinator alum (W2012, TapToLearn). Georgia Tech, Masters in Computer Science.