Yoodli appoints ex-Meta product leader Murthy as VP of Product

Yoodli, an AI-powered platform for experiential learning, announced on July 27, 2026, the appointment of Kartik Murthy as Vice President of Product, effective immediately. Murthy brings more than 17 years of product leadership across AI, consumer software, hardware, and learning technology. Most recently, he was Head of Product for Security, AI, and Expansion at Coalition, the cyber insurance leader, where he led teams that shipped generative AI features across the core product, automated more than 30% of servicing tasks, and expanded into five new markets, more than tripling international revenue. Earlier, he led the product management team behind Ray-Ban Stories, Meta's first wearable device, from inception through launch, and drove Uber's international expansion of Rides and Eats. He also served as VP of Product at Subject, an edtech platform, marking a return to learning technology.

The appointment arrives at a period of accelerated growth for Yoodli. The company has reached over 1 million users and achieved 900% year-over-year revenue growth. In its latest funding round, Yoodli closed a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital, bringing total funding to $60M at a $300M valuation. Enterprise customers including Google Cloud, Snowflake, Databricks, and RingCentral use Yoodli's AI roleplays to build readiness across revenue teams, with measurable results: Google Cloud has certified 15,000+ reps using the platform, and Snowflake reports 1,600+ manager hours recovered per quarter.

Yoodli's CEO and co-founder Varun Puri characterized the company's challenge: "At over 1 million users and 900% revenue growth, our constraint isn't demand, it's how fast we can build the right things." He cited Murthy's track record of shipping at scale—from launching Meta's first wearable to tripling Coalition's international revenue—as the reason for the hire. Murthy echoed the company's product philosophy, stating: "I've built products across AI, hardware, and learning, and the pattern I keep seeing is that people improve through practice, not content. Yoodli is the first experiential learning platform built for enterprise, and the team ships with a velocity I've rarely seen."

At Yoodli, Murthy's mandate includes deepening the realism of the platform's AI roleplays, strengthening enterprise capabilities, and expanding the Learn → Practice → Do loop across enablement, L&D, leadership, and partner teams. His role will be to lead the product organization as Yoodli scales its platform for global revenue teams.

Yoodli's appointment of Murthy reflects a critical inflection point for the company: rapid user and revenue growth has created a scaling challenge. The company's own CEO stated the constraint is "how fast we can build the right things," signaling that demand outpaces product execution capacity. Murthy's track record directly addresses this bottleneck. At Coalition, he shipped generative AI features across the core product while automating more than 30% of servicing tasks and expanding into five new markets, ultimately tripling international revenue. His tenure managing Meta's Ray-Ban Stories from inception through launch demonstrates his ability to shepherd complex hardware-software products through full lifecycle execution.

The timing of the hire coincides with Yoodli's Series B close of $40M (valuation: $300M, total funding: $60M), which provides capital runway to pursue Murthy's stated mandate: deepening AI roleplay realism, strengthening enterprise capabilities, and expanding the Learn → Practice → Do loop. The platform's enterprise anchor customers—Google Cloud (15,000+ certified reps), Snowflake (1,600+ manager hours recovered per quarter), Databricks, and RingCentral—provide both proof points and a base from which to scale. Murthy's international expansion experience at both Coalition and Uber positions him to extend that traction beyond the current revenue-team focus.

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