Sunil Rajaraman

Founder

2022

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.

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.

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.

Vice President Marketing, B2B

2020 - 2022

CMO

2019 - 2020

Responsible for all corporate marketing at Metromile - an innovative company in the insurtech space.

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.

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.

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).

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.