Vishal Kapur
Founder of Leap
Vishal Kapur
Founder of Leap
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder & CTO
2021 - 2024
Building products to help solve the loneliness epidemic among people 55+
Member
2018 - 2021
Senior Engineering Manager
2015 - 2017
Helping build real-time communication (voice, video and screen sharing) at Slack.
Co-Founder & CTO
2013 - 2014
Screenhero (YC W2013) is simple, collaborative screen sharing and voice chat. It's better than working in the same room -- with co-workers, family and friends. We were acquired by Slack in Jan 2015.
CTO
2010 - 2012
A remote desktop client for iOS and Mac. You can control your computer at home or work, from anywhere in the world.
Member
2010 - 2012
Founder
2009 - 2012
iOS and Mac OS applications including PandaBar, a Mac app to play Pandora in your menu bar.
Chief Architect
2005 - 2009
Software Engineer, Architect and Senior Software Development Manager responsible for the video crawling technology and infrastructure at Truveo.
Senior Member of Technical Staff
2002 - 2005
Developed web management system for real-time performance monitoring for clustered databases.
Education
Master's degree
2001 - 2002
B.S.
1997 - 2001
Latest Articles
People-first decision making
Talks about Entrepreneurship, Decision Making and people-first decision making