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Nivara

The intelligence layer for how your teams use AI

Nivara gives engineering leaders visibility into how humans and AI build together, helping teams spot bottlenecks, measure impact, and turn AI adoption into real outcomes. We're building the much needed copilot for Engineering Managers and empower every team to work intelligently with AI.
Active Founders
Tejas Agarwal
Tejas Agarwal
Founder
ex-Uber, Oracle, UW-Madison| Built Fulfillment Metrics serving 6M+ drivers and 150M+ monthly active users | Previously built Zanzibar - Uber's open-source API infrastructure serving 1M+ requests per second. Passionate about building great teams, and delivering value to users.
Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra
Founder
ex-Uber, IIT KGP | Built the platform for Uber for Business & Fulfillment.
Company Launches
Nivara Catalyst - AI powered Engineering Intelligence Platform
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Hey everyone - we’re Tejas and Pankaj, co-founders of Nivara 👋

TL;DR

Nivara is an AI-powered Engineering Intelligence platform that gives engineering leaders visibility into how humans and AI are building together, measuring throughput, quality, and ROI across the modern software organization.

Ask: Are you a CTO, VP, or Engineering Leader investing in AI productivity?

Book a demo -  we’d love to show you how Nivara Catalyst can help your team operate faster, healthier, and more efficiently.

❌ The Problem

AI has entered engineering at scale. There are now hundreds of tools across the engineering lifecycle - from Cursor, Claude, Codex for coding to Greptile, CodeRabbit for review, and more emerging every week.

But the reality?

  • Traditional developer metrics like PR counts and number of code reviews don’t tell the story anymore.
  • Engineering orgs are becoming AI–human hybrid systems, yet leaders can’t measure impact, quality, or ROI.
  • Even worse - if teams aren’t aligned to org OKRs, none of these tools matter. Misalignment between goals and execution kills impact.

At companies like Meta, Google, and Microsoft, 30%+ of code is now AI-generated, yet few organizations have visibility into which systems are actually driving outcomes.

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🤖 Our Solution: Nivara Catalyst - The AI Engineering Intelligence Platform

Catalyst provides visibility into how humans and AI are building together. It helps engineering leaders understand:

  • Which systems and models drive the most ROI 💰
  • How AI adoption affects throughput, quality, and velocity 📈
  • Where organizational bottlenecks exist ⚙️

Catalyst learns your product and engineering signals - from incidents and bug rates to resolution times, and ties them back to your organization OKRs.

It helps you:

  • Identify AI champions and benchmark best practices across the industry 🏆
  • Understand total AI spend and map it to business outcomes
  • Spot misalignment before it slows your org down

As AI adoption grows, Catalyst becomes your intelligence layer - the system of record for how your organization performs in the AI era.

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🌍 Our Vision

We’re building toward a future where every organization runs on an AI Resource Manager, measuring not just output, but impact.

👬 The Team

Tejas (CEO)  - ex-Uber infrastructure engineer. He built real-time product metrics for 6M+ Uber drivers, scaling systems serving 150M+ users, and developed Uber’s open-source API Gateway, Zanzibar, handling 1M requests per second.

Pankaj (CTO) - ex Uber platform engineer. He has worked on the Uber for Business & Fulfillment platform teams. He was one of the 7 people from all of India hired by Uber to directly join the San Francisco office. He is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur.

We worked together at Uber for over two years building and scaling core platforms side by side.

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🙏 Our Ask

If you’re a CTO, VP, or Engineering Leader exploring:

  • How AI impacts your team’s productivity
  • Which systems deliver ROI
  • Or how to align AI adoption with your team’s OKRs

We’d love to chat.

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Nivara
Founded:2025
Batch:Fall 2025
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Andrew Miklas