Naveen Selvadurai

Naveen Selvadurai is an internet entrepreneur and former Partner at the startup studio Expa, based in New York, New York. He is best known for co-founding the location-based social networking platform Foursquare alongside Dennis Crowley in 2009, where he managed technical operations until stepping down from his day-to-day role in March 2012. Following his departure, Selvadurai joined Expa, a venture studio established by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, to lead its New York operations and support early-stage technology companies. Before his entrepreneurial ventures, he earned both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and subsequently held engineering roles at Lucent, Sony, Nokia, and Sun Microsystems. His career trajectory highlights a clear transition from developing mobile social networking applications to advising and investing in emerging technology startups.