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Vishal Kapur

Co-founder & CTO at Leap

San Francisco Bay Area

Work Experience

2021 - 2024

  • Co-founder & CTO

    2021 - 2024

    Building products to help solve the loneliness epidemic among people 55+

2018 - 2021

  • Member

    2018 - 2021

2015 - 2017

  • 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.

2010 - 2012

  • 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.

2010 - 2012

  • Member

    2010 - 2012

2009 - 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.

2002 - 2005

  • Senior Member of Technical Staff

    2002 - 2005

    Developed web management system for real-time performance monitoring for clustered databases.