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Alex Kharis

Founder

Founder at Unfurl

Palo Alto, California, United States

FoundedUnfurl · YC

About

Alex Kharis has built companies to scale with 2,000+ employees and holds expertise in finance, operations, and business development across construction, real estate, and construction tech sectors. He is currently developing a food industry business.

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Founder at UnfurlYC W21

Intro paths

YC

Alex went through Y Combinator (Winter 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Alex can intro founders to Unfurl's investors below.

Unfurl's investors · 1

Y Combinator

Co-founders at Unfurl

CTChris Tara-Browne
Chris Tara-BrowneFounder
MKMikhail Kokorich
Mikhail KokorichFounder
LKLiudmila Kokorich
Liudmila KokorichFounder

Experience

  1. RRS - Retail Robotics SolutionsChief Executive Officercurrent2026 — present
  2. Kharis Consulting LLCFounder & Principalcurrent2025 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
  3. Cubios Inc. (WOWCube®️System)Chief Financial Officer2024 — 2026Florida, United States
  4. Cubios Inc. (WOWCube®️System)VP Finance and BizOps2023 — 2024Palo Alto, California, United States
  5. TruMe IncCOO / CRO2023 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
  6. TruMe IncChief Operating Officer2022 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
  7. Unfurl Inc.COO / Co-Founder2019 — 2022San Francisco, California, United States
  8. TraceAir TechnologiesDirector of Customer Success / Account Management2019 — 2022Redwood City, California, USA
  9. Various CompaniesCo-Founder, Executive2014 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
  10. RDS Group of CompaniesCEO / Co-Founder2007 — 2014Vladivostok, Russia

Education

  1. Y CombinatorW212021
  2. The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessCertificate, Behavioral Economics2021
  3. Kellogg Executive EducationProduct Strategy Certificate, Product Management2019
  4. Stanford Continuing StudiesStartup Marketing course
  5. Stanford Continuing StudiesNegotiation Mastery: Achieving Outstanding Results and Relationships course
  6. Stanford Continuing StudiesBeyond Negotiation Mastery: Advanced Theory and Practice for Negotiation course
  7. Stanford Continuing StudiesTame Big Data to Drive Big Insight course
  8. Pacific State University of EconomicsConstruction management
  9. Finance University under the Government of the Russian FederationMaster’s Degree, Finance and credit2000 — 2002
  10. Primorsky JobsMaster’s Degree, Economy of South Korea1992 — 1997

Skills & more

Strategic Planning19StrategyOperational ExcellenceTeam Leadership5Negotiation3Interpersonal SkillsLeadershipGeneral Management3Problem SolvingBias for ActionFinancial Leadership11C Level Management9
+12 moreHuman Resources (HR)Account ManagementOperational StrategyCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)FundraisingMarketing StrategyProject ManagementBusiness DevelopmentOperations ManagementReal Estate DevelopmentCorporate FinanceFinance

Languages English · Korean · Russian

  • Advanced Study in Commercial Real Estate Development — Commercial Real Estate Development Association (CREDA)
  • Project Management with Microsoft Project Professional 2003 — Microsoft Certified Technical Education Center, Vladivostok

From Alex's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Y Combinator1,474

Akshat GoenkaInvestor at Moonfire VenturesJon XuGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorTed ChaiAssociate at Scale Venture PartnersLeo LuInvestor at Foundation CapitalMaroof AhmedFounder at Octopus VenturesYusuf SherwaniCo-Founder and CEO at Pelago; a Londoner living in New York City

+ 1,468 more

Also attended Kellogg Executive Education16

Gretchen McClainInvestor at EPIC VENTURESLaurie McGrawInvestor at HLM Investment PartnersXavier BaillèresInvestor at Endurance28Michael LauSVP, Group Head of Business Development and Chairman of Consensus at BullishDeborah BackusBoard Member at SCI VenturesPaul KrajewskiProduct Management / Research, MarTech SaaS at Founder Institute Australia & New Zealand

+ 10 more

Also attended Finance University under the Government of the Russian Federation15

Olga ChumanskayaInvestor at Khosla VenturesAndrei PopovManaging Partner at Digital Space VenturesNikolay SilaevInvestor at EBRD Venture Capital Investment ProgrammeMichael SchrezenmaierPartner at Incharge Capital PartnersStefan NagelManaging Partner at Round2 Capital PartnersArseny KlekovkinManaging Partner, G1 Ventures at HyperNest

+ 9 more

Shared employers

Also worked at Cubios Inc. (WOWCube®️System)1

Dmitri BourkovskiChief Investment Officer at Xsolla

Also worked at TraceAir Technologies3

Phil DurCo-Founder & Managing Partner at PeakSpan Capital PartnersSteve Dell'OrtoVenture Partner, Construction at Builders VCAnton FedorovAssociate at Buran Venture Capital

Also worked at Various Companies149

Leonard PicardoAdvisor at Manta Ray VenturesYtsen van der MeerPrincipal at Cottonwood Technology FundHector MasonGeneral Partner at Episode1Danielle AbdelahadInvestor at Third Rock VenturesSiddharth RamakrishnanPrincipal at Scale Venture PartnersTroy A. LeMaile-StovallCEO at Maryland TEDCO

+ 143 more