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Rahul Sonwalkar

Founder

Founder at Julius

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedJulius · YC

About

Rahul Sonwalkar previously held roles in pricing at Uber and on the misinformation team at Facebook. He built and scaled Waterview during college to an audience of 17,000 developers.

Founder at JuliusYC S22

Intro paths

YC

Rahul went through Y Combinator (Summer 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Brad Flora, Backing expeditions into the future — the partner who ran Julius's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Rahul can intro founders to Julius's investors below.

Julius's investors · 7

Hawk Hill VenturesHorizonMiami BeachKarman VenturesAustin · $100K – $500K checksLearnLaunchBostonMoth FundSan FranciscoSnowflake VenturesMenlo Park · $1M – $20M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2022

Experience

  1. Julius AIFounder and CEOcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. StartupsInvestingcurrent2022 — present
  3. UberSoftware Engineer2020 — 2022San Francisco, California, United States
  4. FacebookSoftware Engineer Intern2019Menlo Park, California
  5. WaterviewCo-Founder2017 — 2019
  6. IHOPLine Cook2016 — 2017Dallas, Texas, United States

Skills & more

Node.js18C++21JavaScript20Leadership12Product Management8Management8Problem Solving7Marketing Strategy6PHP5HTML10CSS5Public Speaking7
+12 moreCascading Style Sheets (CSS)SQLPostgreSQLIntegration TestingReactAngularMicrosoft OfficeGitJavaRESTful WebServicesPythonMySQL

Languages English · Hindi · Marathi

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Rahul Sonwalkar?
Rahul Sonwalkar previously held roles in pricing at Uber and on the misinformation team at Facebook. He built and scaled Waterview during college to an audience of 17,000 developers.
Where does Rahul Sonwalkar work?
Rahul Sonwalkar is Founder of Julius.
What companies did Rahul Sonwalkar found?
Rahul Sonwalkar founded Julius.
Where did Rahul Sonwalkar go to school?
Rahul Sonwalkar studied at The University of Texas at Dallas (Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science).

Founder mafias

Y Combinator mafia8,773

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Uber mafia170

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The University of Texas at Dallas mafia19

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Same school

Also attended The University of Texas at Dallas44

HemamAdvisor at Clear VenturesBonnie KomarController at Ballistic VenturesKevin CrowderPartner at Intelis CapitalTriet NguyenPrincipal at Render CapitalStuart NguyenInvestor at Griffin Gaming PartnersJeff WilliamsManaging Partner at Interlock Partners

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Shared employers

Also worked at Julius AI1

Sandhya VenkatachalamManaging Partner at Axiom Partners

Also worked at Uber418

Bill GurleyGeneral Partner Emeritus at BenchmarkJason CalacanisFounder of LAUNCH; host of This Week in StartupsAndrew ChenGeneral Partner at Andreessen HorowitzGarrett CampCo-founder of Uber and StumbleUpon; founder of ExpaRaquel UrtasunFounder & CEO of WaabiFrédérique DameInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)

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Also worked at Facebook535

Peter ThielCo-founder & Partner at Founders FundChamath PalihapitiyaFounder & CEO of Social CapitalJim BreyerFounder & CEO of Breyer CapitalDavid SzeAdvisory Partner at GreylockReed HastingsCo-founder of NetflixAndy FangCo-founder & CTO of DoorDash

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