About
ProdE. Italian for valiant, brave. Short for product engineer.
Started by brothers.
One from engineering, one from product. We've lived this gap firsthand inside fast-growing teams. With ProdE, we are solving it for the entire product organization.
Nilesh Bansal
The PMOver-communicator. Sent 27,000+ Slack messages in a year. Ex VP Program Innovation at GBI, Director at cove.tool (Series B), Data Scientist at Gensler. Carnegie Mellon.
Mitz Banarjee
Mentor, Advisor & InvestorCEO/CIO of Capital Human, a Dallas family office. Investor in Anthropic, SpaceX, xAI, Perplexity, Groq, Cerebras, and Figure. An incredible operator before he turned investor. Helped scale Workiva (NYSE: WK) from founding to IPO as Chief Customer Officer and EVP. Workiva remains one of the best customer-first SaaS stories of the last decade, with 5,300+ customers across NA, EMEA, and APAC.
Yuval Lubowich, CTPO of HData (one of Mitz's portfolio companies), was one of Nilesh's earliest cold outreaches. He tried ProdE, became a customer, and introduced us to Mitz. Today Mitz is rolling up his sleeves with us: capital, network, and time.
