Paul Sri
Co-founder and CEO, Ceta Network
Paul Sri is the Founder of Ceta Network. He also serves as Founder of d14n, Chief Operating Officer of KidL, and Chief Technology Officer at Mill and Porta. Before founding Ceta Network, Sri was the the head of engineering at ZestFinance, a financial technology company that uses machine learning and data science to help companies make more accurate financial decisions. Paul leads the software engineering, test engineering, DevOps, and IT teams. With more than 18 years of technology industry experience, Paul is responsible for managing and directing all engineering programs, product design and quality assurance at ZestFinance.
Before Zest, Paul held various engineering management positions at Overture Services, Yahoo! Search Marketing, YP Holdings (formerly AT&T Interactive) and Chegg, building platforms ranging from distributed data stores for ad serving to machine learning and graph database-backed recommendation platforms. Paul received his B.S. in Computer Science from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Content & Articles by Paul Sri
Lessons From Building An AI-Native Startup with Octagos Health
In this Mucker Growth Series session, we invited friends from one of our portfolio companies Haley Chute, CPO & CMO, and Harpreet Marwaha, COO & CFO of Octagos Health, to...
How To Craft Your Website Messaging & Positioning as a Startup
In this Mucker Growth Series session, Anthony Pierri, co-founder of FletchPMM, walks through how to craft website messaging and positioning as a startup. FletchPMM is a consultancy that has worked...
2026 New York Tech Week Recap of Mucker Sessions
Mucker Capital went to New York Tech Week to host sessions for founders, operators, and builders thinking through how AI is changing product, growth, and search. Among the sessions were:...
Closing Enterprise Deals in Founder-Led Sales as a Startup
In our recent Mucker Growth Series session, I invited David Mackay, Managing Director at D9Y and one of our operating experts at Mucker, to talk about closing enterprise deals in...
The 10 Security Gaps That Plague Startups Before Their A Round
A NOTE ON SEVERITY Not every item on this list carries the same level of risk. Some are the kind of finding that stops a deal. Others are serious but...
Community-Led Growth for Startups: Why Most Communities Fail and How to Build One That Actually Works
In our recent Mucker Growth Series session, I invited Sam Jacobs — founder and CEO of Pavilion — to talk about community-led growth: what it actually means, why most communities...