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Tushar Soni

Founder

Founder at Glide

New York, New York, United States

FoundedGlide · YC

About

Tushar Soni is CEO and co-founder of Glide. Previously he held a tech lead position at Robinhood Crypto working on the Robinhood Wallet app, and earlier contributed to large-scale consumer applications including Uber Eats, Apple Music, and the App Store. He also created and maintains Copper, a fullstack web development toolkit for Go.

Likely email· guessed from name + firm domain, not firm-published

Founder at GlideYC S23

Intro paths

YC

Tushar went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Glide's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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

Glide's investors · 4

BenchmarkSan Francisco · $100K – $30M checksCMCC GlobalHong KongSV AngelSan FranciscoY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2023

Co-founders at Glide

QTQinyu Tong
Qinyu TongFounder

Experience

  1. GlideFoundercurrent2023 — presentNew York, United States
  2. RobinhoodStaff Software Engineer2021 — 2023New York, United States
  3. UberStaff Software Engineer2018 — 2021New York, United States
  4. AppleSoftware Engineer2016 — 2018Cupertino, CA

Frequently asked questions

Who is Tushar Soni?
Tushar Soni is CEO and co-founder of Glide. Previously he held a tech lead position at Robinhood Crypto working on the Robinhood Wallet app, and earlier contributed to large-scale consumer applications including Uber Eats, Apple Music, and the App Store. He also created and maintains Copper, a fullstack web development toolkit for Go.
Where does Tushar Soni work?
Tushar Soni is Founder of Glide.
What companies did Tushar Soni found?
Tushar Soni founded Glide.
Where did Tushar Soni go to school?
Tushar Soni studied at Drexel University (Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science with Minor in Entrepreneurship).

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