Sunil Paul
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Co-Founder at Bell AI Fellowship
Location: San Francisco, California, United States 21 work roles 1 school
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Sunil Paul previously worked as CEO and tax equity expert at Spring Free Ev and CEO and co-founder at Spring Free Ev. Sunil Paul holds B.E., Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.

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I'm an experienced entrepreneur and investor who pioneered mobility and climate investment. I started Spring Free EV to make electric vehicles cheaper than gas without any new hardware. Previously, I co-founded and ran Sidecar where we invented modern ridesharing . Prior to Sidecar I incubated Getaround and made a number of successful investments including several IPOs including Linkedin. I co-founded and ran email security and anit-spam company Brightmail ($370M sale), and early web pioneer FreeLoader ($38M sale). I've been active in the non-profit and political worlds as well with organizations like Gigaton Throwdown, Clean Energy for Biden, Cleantech for Obama, and others.

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Bell AI Fellowship
Bell Ai Fellowship
Co-Founder
San Francisco, CA, US
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21 roles · 22 years

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Ceo And Tax Equity Expert

Current

United States, US

Adding a new capability to my tool belt. Tax equity is so murky and it helps to have experts at your side.

Nov 2023 - Present

Ceo And Co-Founder

Current

United States, US

Spring Free EV is a financial technology company built to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) through innovative fintech products. We have the bold mission to reduce CO2 emissions by one gigaton by 2030 through a new vehicle financing approach that makes EVs more accessible to everyone.

Jul 2020 - Present

Founding Partner

Current
Spring Ventures

Spring Ventures is a platform for my investments.

Jun 2007 - Present

Board Of Directors

San Francisco, California, US

Jan 2012 - May 2017

Co-Founder & Ceo

Sidecar

Sidecar was the pioneer and inventor of ridesharing as well as many other innovation in the category. We grew to ten cities, gave millions of rides, and sold assets to General Motors in January of 2016.

Sep 2011 - Jan 2016

Co-Founder

Gigaton Awards

I co-founded Gigaton Awards with Sir Richard Branson and the co-founders of the Carbon War Room. They were designed to recognize the companies that accomplished the most to reduce greenhouse gases around the world. Recipients included 3M, Nike, Suntech, and Suzalon.

Jan 2011 - Dec 2012

Founder

Gigaton Throwdown

A large collaboration between academic and industry leaders in climate to understand the path to scale up solutions to climate. The Gigaton Throwdown was a project to encourage entrepreneurs, investors and policy makers to plan to grow companies to a scale that they stabilize the climate. The Gigaton Throwdown study evaluated a portfolio of cleantech.

Nov 2007 - Jan 2012

Co-Founder And Co-Chairman

US

CEN was a channel and voice of the emerging clean economy in policy circles. We had almost 20 chapters and active regions and over 10,000 members in all 50 states.

Mar 2009 - Oct 2011

Angel Investor

Sunnyvale, CA, US

2004 - May 2011

Board Member

Oakland, California, US

PCV is one of the nation's leading community development organizations. It fosters the growth of businesses in developing communities in California.

Oct 2005 - Dec 2009

Co-Chair, Energy And Environment Track

Mountain View, California, US

Singularity University aims to educate the next generation of leaders to leverage the accelerating pace of technology while being aware of its consequences. While there, I helped incubate the peer-to-peer company, Getaround.

Apr 2009 - Sep 2009

Co-Founder And National Co-Chair

Cleantech And Green Business For Obama

CT4O was a constituency organization of the Obama campaign. We successfully engaged thousands of cleantech leaders and professionals, raised $1.6M, fielded battelground teams in 13 states, held over 200 national house parties in all 50 states, and recruited hundreds of volunteers to help with GOTV efforts.

Aug 2008 - Nov 2008

Board Member

City Carshare

CCS is the largest non-profit car sharing organization in the US and the second largest after Zipcar. I was an advisor to them from their founding and joined their board for a few years. We successfully focused the organization on financial sustainability during my tenure.

Jun 2005 - May 2007

Co-Founder, Executive Director

Icanvas.Org

I believe citizens should be empowered to engage with government and politicians. iCanvas.org was our effort to experiment with new models of engagement via the internet. We were successful in building a novel method of email distribution and engaged in computerized phone banking, which was a new capability in 2004.

Sep 2004 - Sep 2005

Ceo, Co-Founder

San Francisco, CA, US

Brightmail was the leading anti-spam company and email cybersecurity that served large companies and ISPs. We sold to Symantec for $370M after filing an S-1 to go public. The company's technology was based on a key patent been subsequently sited by over 500 patents.

Jul 1997 - May 2004

Co-Founder, Ceo

Freeloader

Back in the dawn of the internet era, I had the itch to be an entrepreneur. I left $1M of unvested stock on the table and started FreeLoader with Mark Pincus. We sold it for $38M just five months later. Crazy, right? It was just the sign of what was to come in the internet world.

Dec 1995 - Jul 1997

Internet Product Manager, Corp Dev Director

New York, NY, US

I joined AOL as the first Internet product manager when they were 300 people (50% customer support), less than $100M revenue, and very limited internet features. I was responsible for all the internet products including Newsgroups, Web, FTP, the "Internet Channel" (yes, it really was called that); and helped guide AOL's internet strategy.

Jan 1994 - Dec 1995

Analyst

US

I was curious about the role of Congress in making technology policy after my experiences on Space Station. I sought a job on the Hill to get some deeper understanding of how the place worked. OTA was filled with a diverse, talented group of people looking at all manner of technology policy. It was like being in grad school, but with a product that might.

Jan 1990 - Jan 1994

Senior Engineer, Nasa Space Station Information System

Mclean, VA, US

Worked on information system design of NASA's Space Station Freedom. It was exciting to be part of the space program.

Jan 1988 - Jan 1990

Engineer

Rms

Newark, California, US

Operations at NASA Goddard Flight Dynamics Facility... supported the systems that told spacecraft where they were and where they should go.

Oct 1987 - Jun 1988
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Sunil Paul education

  • Vanderbilt University
    Vanderbilt University
    Electrical Engineering
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Sunil Paul works for Bell AI Fellowship.

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Sunil Paul is listed as Co-Founder at Bell AI Fellowship.

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Sunil Paul is based in San Francisco, California, United States while working with Bell AI Fellowship.

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Sunil Paul has worked for Bell Ai Fellowship, Spring Free Ev, Spring Ventures, Zynga, and Sidecar.

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Sunil Paul holds B.E., Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.

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