Tanooj Luthra
FounderFounder/CTO at Streem · Founder/CTO at Elph
San Francisco Bay Area
FoundedElph · YCStreem · YC
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12,129 people in our graph share verified history with Tanooj — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.
Janet WolpertunlockedTanooj: together at Coinbase (2018)
×4Tanooj: together at University of California, Berkeley
×7Tanooj: together at Y Combinator
About
Tanooj Luthra worked at several technology companies including Elph, Box, Coinbase, Brex, and OpenAI before co-founding Streem in 2019.
Founder/CTO at StreemYC S12
Intro paths
YC
Tanooj went through Y Combinator (Summer 2012) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Tanooj can intro founders to Streem's investors below.
Streem's investors · 5
Co-founders at Streem
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Ritik MalhotraFounder/CEO
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Samvit RamadurgamFounder
Founder/CTO at ElphYC W19
Intro paths
YC
Tanooj went through Y Combinator (Winter 2019) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Tanooj can intro founders to Elph's investors below.
Elph's investors · 6
DST GlobalGeorge Town, Grand Cayman · $100K – $200M checksIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)San Francisco · $15M – $75M checksKleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checksRibbit CapitalPalo Alto · $100K – $15M checksTiger Global ManagementNew York · $1M – $100M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2019
Co-founders at Elph
Experience
- OpenAIMember of Technical Staffcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- Nerve AICo-Founder and CTOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- Pioneer FundVenture Partnercurrent2021 — presentNew York, United States
- Khushi BabyBoard Member and CTOcurrent2015 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- BrexHead of Engineering for Startups + Banking2021 — 2023
- BrexSenior Engineering Manager, Foundation Platform + Observability2020 — 2021New York, United States
- BrexEngineering Manager, Brex Cash2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- ElphCo-Founder & CTO2018 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
- CoinbaseSenior Crypto Engineer2017 — 2018San Francisco, California
- BoxStaff Software Engineer2014 — 2017Redwood City, California
- StreemCo-Founder and CTO2013 — 2014San Jose, CA
- MicrosoftSoftware Engineer2012Redmond, Washington
- mChronSoftware Engineer2011
- Mimvi IncSoftware Engineer2010San Francisco Bay Area
- San Diego Supercomputer CenterSoftware Engineer2008University of California, San Diego
Skills & more
Python8Ruby on Rails4Cocos2d3iOS development2Mobile Applications3JavaScript5HTML3Meteor1Ruby3Java3Objective-C3C++4
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jQueryDjangoSchemeCMySQLLanguages English · Hindi
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Tanooj Luthra?
- Tanooj Luthra worked at several technology companies including Elph, Box, Coinbase, Brex, and OpenAI before co-founding Streem in 2019.
- Where does Tanooj Luthra work?
- Tanooj Luthra is Founder/CTO of Elph and Founder/CTO at Streem.
- What companies did Tanooj Luthra found?
- Tanooj Luthra founded Elph, Streem.
- Where did Tanooj Luthra go to school?
- Tanooj Luthra studied at Y Combinator; University of California, Berkeley (BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); Y Combinator.
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia10,218
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OpenAI mafia103
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Reid HoffmanBoard MemberFounded LinkedIn +2Sam AltmanCo-founder & CEOFounded Tools for Humanity +2Elon MuskCo-founder & former Co-chair / board memberFounded PayPal +5Ilya SutskeverCo-founder & Chief ScientistFounded Safe SuperintelligenceAravind SrinivasResearch ScientistFounded PerplexityDario AmodeiVP of ResearchFounded Anthropic
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Brex mafia47
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Box mafia29
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Ritik MalhotraProduct / Engineering LeadFounded Savvy +2Jeff SeibertHead of Box Boston, Engineering ManagerFounded Crashlytics +1Peter LaiSenior EngineerFounded Emburse +1Reshma KhilnaniEngineering ManagerFounded Medplum +1Tomas BarretoVP, EngineeringFounded OkayTed BlosserSenior Account ExecutiveFounded WorkRamp
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Elph mafia2
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Same school
Also attended Y Combinator2,000
Ryan SheaCo-founder of Blockstack (Stacks)Suhail DoshiFounder of Mixpanel; founder of ParticleArhaan A.Deeptech Fellow at Clear VenturesAkshat GoenkaInvestor at Moonfire VenturesJon XuGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorChris GoldaGeneral Partner at Y Combinator
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Also attended University of California, Berkeley2,000
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Shared employers
Also worked at OpenAI180
Reid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockPat GradyPartner at Sequoia CapitalGreg BrockmanCo-founder & President of OpenAIIlya SutskeverCo-founder of OpenAI; co-founder & CEO of Safe SuperintelligenceAravind SrinivasCo-founder & CEO of Perplexity AIDario AmodeiCo-founder & CEO of Anthropic
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Also worked at Brex63
Henrique DubugrasCo-founder & former chairman of BrexPedro FranceschiCo-founder & CEO of BrexKatie BiberChief Operating Officer at ParadigmMatt MocharyInvestor at Fortius VenturesCarmen CollynsHead of Investor Relations at CAVU Consumer PartnersHadley CallawaySoftware Engineer at Asymmetric Capital Partners
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Also worked at Microsoft1,848
Reid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockGarry TanPresident & CEO of Y CombinatorNat FriedmanCo-lead of Meta Superintelligence Labs; co-founder of NFDGKai-Fu LeeChairman of Sinovation Ventures and CEO of 01.AIBill GatesCo-founder of Microsoft; Chair of the Gates FoundationMike KriegerCo-founder of Instagram; Chief Product Officer at Anthropic
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