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Sunil Rajaraman
Founder of Hamlet
Orinda, California
Overview
Sunil Rajaraman is an accomplished Founder, Investor, and Writer with a diverse background in online marketing, entrepreneurship, and corporate finance. Notable highlights include founding Hamlet and serving in key marketing and leadership roles at companies like GoodRx and Metromile. Currently, he invests in various sectors through his involvement with companies like Azteco, Maven, and Iron Ox.
Work Experience
Founder
2022 - Current
Hamlet uses a combination of AI with human fact-checking to find valuable data from planning commission and city council meetings for real estate developers, land use attorneys, and government relations execs. Customers use Hamlet to mitigate political risk around projects, track developer sentiment, and understand the supply pipeline in cities where they operate. Governments use Hamlet to summarize City Council meetings so residents don't have to get their information from social media.
Hamlet transforms local information into accessible insights you can use and shares it via newsletter.
Board Member
2024
I joined the Board of the Rose Institute for state and local government. My current company - Hamlet -is focused on helping local governments and private parties interested in local data. My hope is to contribute some expertise on the tech/AI side to the Board. .
Scout
2022
If you're a Founder looking to raise either a pre-seed or seed round of financing, I'd love to listen to your pitch on a random weeknight or weekend. I'm excited about all sectors, and mostly interested in working with amazing Founders. I've done a bunch of angel investing over the past 7 or so years in both consumer and enterprise and I plan on continuing to do so for the foreseeable future. Excited to join the Sequoia Scout program, and continue to invest in great founders. Some companies I've previously invested in include Turing, Aalto, Datapeople, Tonkean, Maven, Practice, Carta, Iron Ox and others.
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Contributor
2023
Hey all - I'm excited to announce I'm going to be contributing to Forbes regularly about AI and Angel Investing. In particular, I'm going to explore how AI is going to affect our day-to-day lives in America, and I'll be talking a bit about what I'm seeing on the AI/investing front. Writing has always been my way of learning about the world, and as the Founder of an AI company I think it's really important I stay ahead of what's happening (and share what I know). Please comment if you think there is a story I should absolutely consider covering. My goal is to write one article a week - with one of the articles being a thoughtful interview with a CEO or a city official.
Forbes Magazine is a business magazine that is focused on business news and financial information.
Raised $200,000,000.00 from Binance.
Vice President Marketing, B2B
2020 - 2022
GoodRx collects drug prices from pharmacies across the U.S. and helps users find the cheapest option for the medication they’re seeking.
Raised $910,300,000.00 from Silver Lake, TCV, Francisco Partners, Spectrum Equity, Silver Lake, TCV, Francisco Partners, Silver Lake, Spectrum Equity and Francisco Partners.
CMO
2019 - 2020
Responsible for all corporate marketing at Metromile - an innovative company in the insurtech space.
Metromile is a car insurance company using data science and machine learning to offer drivers new and fairer insurance.
Raised $510,000,000.00 from New Enterprise Associates, ClearBridge Investments, Hudson Structured Capital Management, Mark Cuban, Miller Value Partners and Social Capital.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2019 - 2019
Helping Foundation Capital companies with go-to-market strategy and working on new things. Reach out for a coffee and would love to hear what you're working on.
Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs and helps companies and businesses grow.
Member of Founding Team, Head of Marketing and Business Development
2017 - 2019
Was a member of the Founding team of a company in the messaging space helping brands build authentic connections with customers via SMS, FB Messenger and other platforms. We closed lululemon, Stance Socks, and other brands in the year I was there. We were backed by NEA and Foundation.
Radiance Commerce offers an LLM-powered shopping concierge that assists customers on their way to purchase.
SVP of Marketing
2016 - 2017
Running marketing at Replicon - a SaaS company funded by Emergence Capital and Social + Capital. Was in charge of all aspects of marketing including Demand Gen, Event Marketing, Product Marketing and Field Marketing. Managed a team of over 30, including the SDR team (which was located in India).
Replicon's purpose is to assist businesses in successfully capturing, managing, and optimising their most valuable asset, time.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Emergence and Social Capital.
Co-founder/CEO
2008 - 2015
Scripted.com is the leading marketplace for businesses to create original content. Scripted has worked with thousands of customers to scale their content marketing efforts, and paid millions of dollars to writers in the process. Scripted is backed by Redpoint Ventures, Crosslink Capital and is based in San Francisco.
Scripted provides freelance writing services for small businesses.
Raised $14,500,000.00 from Redpoint, Crosslink Capital and Storm Ventures.