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Helly Shah

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Founder at Ralo

New York, New York, United States

FoundedRalo · YC

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About

Helly Shah is the co-founder and CTO of Ralo, a mortgage platform. She previously led design and product work at Google Maps serving over a billion users, and built real-time trading systems at Goldman Sachs. She grew up in a family involved in real estate development across India and the United States.

Founder at RaloYC X25

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Helly went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Their group partner at YC was Pete Koomen, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Ralo's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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Ralo's investors · 14

Agrolimen VenturesAndreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checksBlast.Club$5.5M checksChile VenturesSantiago · $50K – $1M checksKleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checksManresa VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $3M checksMatador FundNetwork VCMenlo ParkPack VenturesSeattlePioneerToronto, OntarioSouthern EquitySt. ThomasSummit PartnersBoston · $10M – $500M checks · since 2026Velocity FundY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Ralo

ALArjun Lalwani
Arjun LalwaniFounder

Experience

  1. RaloCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2025 — presentNew York, New York, United States
  2. GoogleSoftware Engineer2022 — 2025New York, New York, United States
  3. Goldman SachsAnalyst2020 — 2022New York, New York, United States
  4. University of WashingtonWriting Consultant2017 — 2020Seattle, Washington, United States
  5. University of WashingtonStaffing Recruiter2018 — 2019Seattle, Washington, United States
  6. University of WashingtonData Analyst2018Seattle, Washington, United States
  7. Goldman SachsSummer Analyst2019New York, New York, United States
  8. MicrosoftSoftware Engineer Intern2018Bellevue, Washington, United States

Skills & more

Leadership3Data Visualization4Developmental Editing2Data AnalysisDirectXStructural Editing1Java10C#RMicrosoft OfficeTableau1OpenGL
+5 moreD3.jsPythonJavaScriptC++C

Languages English · French · Gujarati · Hindi

  • Emergency Medical Technician, Basic — New York State

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Who is Helly Shah?
Helly Shah is the co-founder and CTO of Ralo, a mortgage platform. She previously led design and product work at Google Maps serving over a billion users, and built real-time trading systems at Goldman Sachs. She grew up in a family involved in real estate development across India and the United States.
Where does Helly Shah work?
Helly Shah is Founder of Ralo.
What companies did Helly Shah found?
Helly Shah founded Ralo.
Where did Helly Shah go to school?
Helly Shah studied at Y Combinator; University of Washington (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science); Tohoku University (Engineering in Japan: Exploring in the Heart of High-tech).

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