About
Karan Sood has a background in financial engineering.
Likely email· guessed from name + firm domain, not firm-published
- k•••@vestfin.comreveal80% confident
Founder/CEO at VestYC W15
Intro paths
YC
Karan went through Y Combinator (Winter 2015) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Karan can intro founders to Vest's investors below.
Vest's investors · 1
Co-founders at Vest
JC
Jeff ChangPresident & Co-Founder
Experience
- Handshake - Stryder Corp.CEO - Co-Foundercurrent2012 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Palantir TechnologiesForward Deployed Engineer2011 — 2013New York City Metropolitan Area
- Los Alamos National LaboratoryHigh Performance Computing Fellowship2011Los Alamos, NM
Skills & more
Entrepreneurship52Early-stage Startups24Software Development46System Administration8Virtualization5Distributed Systems4Network Administration3Agile Methodologies3Data Structures1Email1Linux73Java50
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Ruby on RailsRubyJavaScriptHadoopPHPCHTMLGitRNetwork Services (DHCP, NAT, Firewalls)LeadershipFrom Karan's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Karan Sood?
- Karan Sood has a background in financial engineering.
- Where does Karan Sood work?
- Karan Sood is Founder/CEO of Vest.
- What companies did Karan Sood found?
- Karan Sood founded Vest.
- Where did Karan Sood go to school?
- Karan Sood studied at Michigan Technological University (Computer Science).
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