Shashank Khanna

Shashank Khanna is a go-to-market engineer at Vanta, currently based in San Francisco, California. Previously, he co-founded Cashmere, a specialized cryptocurrency wallet designed for web3 startups that participated in the Y Combinator Winter 2022 accelerator batch. During his tenure as a founder, Cashmere successfully secured a $3 million seed funding round at a $30 million valuation in August 2022 before the project was eventually marked as inactive. Prior to this entrepreneurial venture, Khanna gained foundational technical experience working as a software engineer at prominent technology and financial corporations, including Amazon and SoFi. He completed his formal undergraduate education by earning a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles. His professional background demonstrates a specialized focus on software engineering, web3 infrastructure, and go-to-market execution across both early-stage ventures and established enterprise platforms.