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Tushar Nair

Founder

Founder at Harper

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedHarper · YC

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Chris BischoffunlockedTushar: together at Goldman Sachs (2012–2013)
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About

Tushar Nair previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Poolit before joining Harper as CTO, where he works on an AI-driven commercial insurance brokerage platform.

Founder at HarperYC W25

Intro paths

YC

Tushar 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 Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Harper's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Tushar can intro founders to Harper's investors below.

Harper's investors · 10

10x FoundersMünchen · $270K – $2.7M checks · since 2026468 CapitalBerlinAntlerSingapore · $3M – $10M checks · since 2026DG Daiwa VenturesEmergence Capitalsince 2026Lobster CapitalSan Francisco · since 2026Olive Tree CapitalBostonOutset CapitalSan Francisco · $200K – $400K checks · since 2026Peak XV PartnersTrianon · $100K – $10M checks · since 2026Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Harper

DRDakotah Rice
Dakotah RiceFounder

Experience

  1. HarperCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. CaliberXCo-Founder & CTO2022 — 2023Miami, Florida, United States
  3. Goldman SachsVice President( Software Engineering Manager )2020 — 2022
  4. Harry's, Inc.Staff Software Engineer2019 — 2020New York, New York
  5. Goldman SachsVice President( Senior Software Engineer )2018 — 2019New York, New York
  6. Goldman SachsSenior Software Engineer2016 — 2018Greater New York City Area
  7. Goldman SachsFull Stack Engineer2013 — 2015Greater New York City Area
  8. Goldman SachsSummer Internship2012Greater New York City Area

Skills & more

spaCy7Keras7Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)6PostgreSQL2Continuous Delivery (CD)2Agile Methodologies1Stripe1PayPal1Amazon Web Services (AWS)1Spring FrameworkRxJavaKafka Streams
+12 moreHiringScalaReact.jsProduct DevelopmentStakeholder ManagementAkkaApache KafkaBusiness Intelligence (BI)DockerCamunda BPMJavaSQL

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Tushar Nair?
Tushar Nair previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Poolit before joining Harper as CTO, where he works on an AI-driven commercial insurance brokerage platform.
Where does Tushar Nair work?
Tushar Nair is Founder of Harper.
What companies did Tushar Nair found?
Tushar Nair founded Harper.
Where did Tushar Nair go to school?
Tushar Nair studied at Y Combinator; Illinois Institute of Technology (Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering).

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