About

ProdE. Italian for valiant, brave. Short for product engineer.
Abhishek Bansal and Nilesh Bansal, co-founders of CuriousBox AI

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 PM

Over-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.

all of that landed on

Abhishek Bansal

The EM

The smarter one in the family (Nilesh created this page). Ex VP of AI Agents at Leena AI (YC S18), where he scaled the business from $100K to $10M+ ARR. Co-founder of VadR, ex-Visa. IIT Delhi.

Mitz Banarjee

Mentor, Advisor & Investor

CEO/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.

How we met

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.

Mitz Banarjee, mentor, advisor and investor