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Shivaas Gulati

Investor at Comet

Seattle, Washington

Overview 

Shivaas Gulati is a startup advisor, angel investor, and the Co-founder of Remitly, a successful financial technology company. He has made significant investments in various startups, including JiPay, Heard Technologies, and Fig Loans, and has a strong background in product design, software engineering, and web applications.

Work Experience 

  • Angel Investor and Advisor

    2023 - Current

  • Executive Advisor

    2023

  • Member Board of Trustees

    2022

    The RAVE Foundation, the official charitable arm of the Seattle Sounders, is a 501c-3 public charity which was founded in 2013 to serve the greater Puget Sound community. Its mission: To build small fields for free play and invest in programs that use soccer as a vehicle to inspire youth and strengthen communities. The RAVE Foundation has three core strategies: First, to use soccer as a vehicle to empower and inspire; Second, to remove barriers to participation on and off the field; and, Third, to support, catalyze and strengthen communities. By building small fields, the RAVE Foundation provides a place for kids to play freely, be physically active and safe, and to be inclusive stakeholders in their communities.

Rave Foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides investment to help children play soccer and community development services.

  • Angel Investor

    2019

  • Angel Investor

    2018

Fig Tech is a financial firm that offers a wide range of loans and financial stability products for low-income families.

  • Angel Investor

    2017

Comet allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models.

Raised $69,800,000.00 from Scale Venture Partners, Trilogy Equity Partners, OpenView and Two Sigma Ventures.

  • Angel Investor

    2022

  • Angel Investor

    2022 - 2022

    Company has shut-down.

  • Co-Founder

    2011 - 2022

    As a co-founder, I played an instrumental role in building a global organisation across seven countries. My primary focus was on leading product and engineering initiatives, and my work frequently intersected with compliance, marketing, operations and recruiting. Our successful journey included substantial fundraising and a strategic move to go public (Nasdaq: RELY) in 2021. ----------------------- Remitly’s vision is to transform the lives of millions of immigrants and their families with the most trusted financial services products in the world. The mobile-first provider of remittances and financial services for immigrants, Remitly makes international money transfers faster, easier, more transparent and more affordable through its global network. Remitly’s reliable and easy-to-use mobile app eliminates the long wait times, complexities and fees typical of traditional remittance processes, returning millions of dollars in savings and spending power to immigrants every year. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Remitly is backed by more than a dozen industry-leading investors, including Generation Investment Management, Naspers PayU and Bezos Expeditions.

  • Angel Investor (acquired by Deel)

    2018 - 2022

Legalpad makes work visa applications faster, easier, and better for startups.

Raised $11,820,000.00 from Trust Ventures.

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