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Helly Shah

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Co-Founder & CTO at Ralo

New York, New York, United States

FoundedRalo · YC

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Helly: together at University of Washington

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.

Co-Founder & CTO at RaloYC X25

Intro paths

YC

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 · 2

Summit PartnersBoston · $10M – $500M checks · since 2026Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Ralo

ALArjun Lalwani
Arjun LalwaniCo-Founder & CEO

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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Frequently asked questions

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 Co-Founder & CTO 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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