About
Thiago Peres is the CTO of Rally and a two-time founder. He previously held product leadership roles at Stripe, Meta, and Booking, as well as at supply chain software company project44. He left university before completing his computer science degree and founded a company that was acquired by a major Latin American e-commerce platform while he was 22 years old.
Founder & CTO at RallyYC W25
Intro paths
YC
Thiago went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Rally's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Thiago can intro founders to Rally's investors below.
Rally's investors · 2
Co-founders at Rally
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Nick TeleckiFounder & CEO
Experience
- Rally (YC W25)Founder & CTPOcurrent2025 — present
- project44Head of Product2022 — 2024Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
- StripeStaff Product Manager2021 — 2022Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
- MetaSenior Product Manager, WhatsApp2020 — 2021Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- MetaSenior Product Manager2018 — 2020London Area, United Kingdom
- Booking.comProduct Manager2015 — 2018Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
- B2W DigitalSenior Product Manager2013 — 2015Rio de Janeiro Area, Brazil
- Appkraft - Mobile app developmentFounder and CEO2010 — 2013Greater Rio de Janeiro
- SERG - Semiotic Engineering Research GroupUser Research Intern2009 — 2010
Skills & more
Software as a Service (SaaS)1Objective-C12Payments1Product Strategy1Product Management12Product Development8User Experience18iPhone development8iOS Development12User Interface Design10Information Architecture4Entrepreneurship7
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User-centered DesignMobile ApplicationsE-commerceStart-upsMobile DevicesScrumData AnalysisBusiness StrategyOperations ManagementUser ResearchTeam ManagementLanguages Dutch · English · Portuguese · Spanish
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Thiago Peres?
- Thiago Peres is the CTO of Rally and a two-time founder. He previously held product leadership roles at Stripe, Meta, and Booking, as well as at supply chain software company project44. He left university before completing his computer science degree and founded a company that was acquired by a major Latin American e-commerce platform while he was 22 years old.
- Where does Thiago Peres work?
- Thiago Peres is Founder & CTO of Rally.
- What companies did Thiago Peres found?
- Thiago Peres founded Rally.
- Where did Thiago Peres go to school?
- Thiago Peres studied at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Bachelor's Degree (incomplete), Computer Science); Y Combinator (Founder).
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