Samir Diwan
Samir Diwan is VP Product, AI Platform Core Experiences at ServiceNow. He previously co-founded Polly, where he served as CEO and CPO, and Projected Talent Inc. as CEO. Earlier, he was Product Partner at Madrona Venture Labs and held senior product and engineering roles at Microsoft.
Allen Institute Names Helen Protheroe and Arden Yang to Executive Roles; Qumulo’s Aaron Passey Returns as Engineering Lead
The Allen Institute appointed Helen Protheroe as executive director of global partnerships and philanthropy and Arden Yang as vice president of innovation, while Aaron Passey returned to Qumulo as an engineering leader. Other notable tech leadership changes include Kevin Goldsmith becoming CTO of DistroKid, Samir Diwan joining Madrona Venture Labs, S. Skye Yoden stepping down from PATH, and Lindsie Goss joining Outpace Bio.
Polly launches real-time trivia, polls and employee-award 'games' for Slack to boost remote-team morale
Seattle startup Polly launched a suite of real-time 'games' for Slack—including trivia, quick 'hot take' polls, and quirky employee awards—to help remote teams boost morale and social connection during the COVID-19–driven shift to working from home. The features are designed to be live, time-limited interactions that reveal results in Slack threads and complement Polly’s existing surveys, polls, analytics, and meeting tools.
Polly raises $7M to expand in-chat employee surveys as Tectonic Audio Labs also secures new VC backing
Two Seattle startups won new venture funding: Polly raised $7 million to expand its in-chat employee-survey product for Slack, Hangouts and Teams, while Tectonic Audio Labs also announced fresh funding and growth plans.
Slack Wars
Slack, the messaging and collaboration tool for teams, is all the rage right now inside many companies, and it has some big new competition from Google, Microsoft and others. We're going inside this growing market today with our guest, Samir Diwan, the co-founder and CEO of Seattle startup Polly.ai, a bot that runs polls and surveys in Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Hangouts Chat. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
TechStars Seattle Demo Day: Nine startups pitched; Polly.ai stands out with Slack chatbot used by 9,000+ teams
TechStars Seattle Demo Day showcased nine startups with pitches spanning drones for environmental use, loan and shift-trading platforms, workplace productivity tools, and space communications — standout winner Polly.ai impressed with a Slack-integrated chatbot used by over 9,000 teams to measure employee sentiment.
Polly.ai launches Slack chatbot to poll employees on happiness, meetings, and product health
Polly.ai, founded by ex-Microsoft engineers Samir Diwan and Bilal Aijazi, rolled out a Slack-integrated chatbot that polls employees on happiness, meeting effectiveness, and product health to give managers trend-based insights.
Projected Talent Wins $25,000 Grand Prize at University of Washington Business Plan Competition
The University of Washington Business Plan Competition awarded a $25,000 grand prize to Projected Talent, a startup led by MBA student Samir Diwan that connects undergraduates with short, paid, meaningful projects. Keynote speaker Dan Price of Gravity Payments recounted his startup journey and the hands-on resilience needed to build a successful company.
Organizations
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ServiceNow VP Product, AI Platform Core Experiences 2025–present, Senior Director of Product Management, Platform 2023–2025 · current
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Madrona Venture Labs Product Partner 2022–2023 · past
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Polly Cofounder/CPO 2021–2022, Cofounder/CEO 2014–2021 · past
Education
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UW Foster School of Business MBA with Honors · 2011–2014
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McGill University Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering · 2000–2004
