Kanishk Parashar

Kanishk Parashar is the cofounder and CEO of Powder, an artificial intelligence growth platform for wealth advisors, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to this role, he served as the cofounder and CEO of RCI Navigator, a wealth technology startup focused on private asset pacing and risk management. Under his leadership, RCI Navigator scaled its enterprise software to support more than 150 financial firms, including major institutions like UBS and Morgan Stanley, before being acquired by Addepar in January 2021. Earlier in his career, Parashar was the cofounder and CEO of Coin, a consumer payment hardware company that developed an integrated digital credit card and participated in the Winter 2013 cohort of Y Combinator. His entrepreneurial background centers on developing specialized financial technology software, bridging consumer payments with enterprise artificial intelligence tools for asset managers.