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.
GP
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
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Dakotah RiceFounder
Experience
- HarperCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- CaliberXCo-Founder & CTO2022 — 2023Miami, Florida, United States
- Goldman SachsVice President( Software Engineering Manager )2020 — 2022
- Harry's, Inc.Staff Software Engineer2019 — 2020New York, New York
- Goldman SachsVice President( Senior Software Engineer )2018 — 2019New York, New York
- Goldman SachsSenior Software Engineer2016 — 2018Greater New York City Area
- Goldman SachsFull Stack Engineer2013 — 2015Greater New York City Area
- 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
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HiringScalaReact.jsProduct DevelopmentStakeholder ManagementAkkaApache KafkaBusiness Intelligence (BI)DockerCamunda BPMJavaSQLFrom Tushar's professional profile.
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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