Shaan Patel is the Head of Growth at Slash, where he serves on the executive team and leads user acquisition, revenue expansion, and go-to-market strategy for one of the fastest-scaling fintech platforms in the U.S. He joined Slash when the company was at ~$2M ARR and played a central role in growing it to over $200M ARR, building the growth engine, sales motion, and vertical expansion strategies that power the company today.

Shaan is also the Principal at Shaan Patel Consulting, where he provides growth advisory and strategic support to early-stage founders. His work focuses on go-to-market execution, positioning, customer acquisition, and company-defining decisions around hiring, pivoting, and scaling. He invests between $10K–$150K into pre-seed and seed-stage companies — backing exceptional founders above all else — and manages a private $10M fund.

Before Slash, Shaan founded a marketing company while studying at the University of Southern California. The business generated over $10M in revenue and was acquired in 2023 by Catch Health. At Catch, he led a $100M+ annual marketing budget supporting 1,000+ W2 telesales agents, and was responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and executing M&A and due-diligence processes for multiple insurance-sector acquisitions.

Shaan studied Business at USC before leaving his MBA program early to build Slash full-time. He is deeply passionate about entrepreneurship and works closely with the next generation of founders navigating GTM strategy, company-building decisions, and growth inflection points.

He is based in San Francisco.