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Paul was born in Punjab, India.
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Sunil Paul
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Sunil Paul is an Internet entrepreneur who has founded companies such as Brightmail and Freeloader, Incorporated. He was the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sidecar, an on-demand peer-to-peer taxi service that was billed as a rideshare community with operations based in San Francisco, California.
Education
Vanderbilt University.
Career
Paul holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University. Before Paul became an entrepreneur he worked as a Policy Analyst at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, working on nanotechnology and information technology and work on National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Station information systems From 1991- 1998 Paul served as a Senior Engineer for Booz Allen Hamilton.
Foreign the first three years he served as a Senior Analyst at the United States Congress, Office of Technology and Assessment.
Starting in 1994, Paul served as an Internet Product Manager and Director of Corporate Development for America Online, Incorporated. In 1996, Paul co-founded and launched his first startup with Mark Pincus, Freeloader, Incorporated., a web-based push technology service.
Paul served as the Chief Executive Officer from January 1996 - June 1996 when Freeloader, Incorporated. was acquired by Individual, Incorporated., for $38 million and Paul became the President of Individual Incorporated. from June 1996 to July 1997. In 1998 Paul founded Brightmail (previously knows as “Brightlight”), an e-mail filtering company, and raised $55 million in three rounds of venture capital led by Accel, TCV and Symantec.
In February 2012 Paul co-founded Sidecar, an on-demand peer-to-peer ridesharing service with Jahan Khanna, Adrian Fortino, and Nick Allen.
Sidecar was based in San Francisco, California and raised $10 million Series A funding in October 2012 from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Google Ventures. Sidecar operated in Seattle, Los Angeles, Austin, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, New York City and Washington, District of Columbia Sidecar closed on December 31, 2015.
He is also active in clean technology non profit projects such as Clean Economy Network, Gigaton Awards and Gigaton Throwdown, Carbon War Room and MapLight. Paul was a founding investor in Nanosolar, Advent Solar, Oorja Protonics, Solazyme, and Zeachem.
Issued to Paul in 2002, Sidecar held the United States #6356838 which covers a method for accepting a transportation request for passenger pickup, determining location and directing a vehicle to the requested location.
Prior to moving to San Francisco, California Paul has lived in Nashville, Tennessee and Washington, District of Columbia
