About
Elias Kassell previously worked at Google and joined Dataform as an early employee. He is now focused on automating property management.
Founder at BrickwiseYC F25
Intro paths
YC
Elias went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Brickwise's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Elias can intro founders to Brickwise's investors below.
Brickwise's investors · 2
Co-founders at Brickwise
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Ismail JeilaniFounder
Experience
- BrickwiseCo-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Busby VenturesCo-Founder2025London Area, United Kingdom
- GoogleSenior Software Engineer2024 — 2025London Area, United Kingdom
- GoogleSoftware Engineer III2022 — 2024London Area, United Kingdom
- GoogleSoftware Engineer II2020 — 2022Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- DataformSoftware Engineer2019 — 2020
- IlluminaData Science Intern2019Greater Cambridge Area
- University of BristolComputer Science BSc, First Class2016 — 2019Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
- University of Bristol Boat ClubVice President & Events Coordinator2018 — 2019Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
- University of Bristol Boat ClubTreasurer2017 — 2018Bristol
- MOV38Chief Technology Officer2018 — 2019Bristol, England
- University of Bristol Computer Science SocietyTreasurer2018 — 2019Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
- Children with Cancer UKDatabase and Business Intelligence Programmer2016London Area, United Kingdom
- University of WestminsterProgramme Administrator2015
- Cancer Research UKVolunteer2012 — 2014Greater Cambridge Area
- S&B Herba Foods LtdIntern2012Greater Cambridge Area
Skills & more
Software DesignReact.jsTypeScriptKotlinSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)KubernetesGo (Programming Language)Software DevelopmentGitDevOpsData Analysis3
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Machine LearningManagementBig DataArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data VisualizationAlgorithmsPythonCRowingQuantitative FinanceData ScienceObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Languages English · French
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Elias Kassell?
- Elias Kassell previously worked at Google and joined Dataform as an early employee. He is now focused on automating property management.
- Where does Elias Kassell work?
- Elias Kassell is Founder of Brickwise.
- What companies did Elias Kassell found?
- Elias Kassell founded Brickwise.
- Where did Elias Kassell go to school?
- Elias Kassell studied at Imperial Business School (Master of Business Administration - MBA); University of Bristol (Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science); Mossbourne Community Academy (A Levels, Maths).
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