# Ghalib Suleiman

> Ghalib Suleiman is the CEO and co-founder of Polytomic, a San Francisco data-integration company that lets teams sync data between databases, warehouses, business systems like Salesforce and Stripe, spreadsheets, and arbitrary HTTP APIs without writing custom pipelines. He built the company with CTO Nathan Yergler after running the data team at PlanGrid during its growth from 25 to 350 people and its near-billion-dollar sale to Autodesk. Polytomic went through Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch, pivoted during the program, and raised a $2.4M seed, winning early customers including Brex, Vanta, Sourcegraph, and ShipBob.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-Founder at Polytomic
- **Organizations:** Polytomic, PlanGrid, TopFunnel, Ashby, Basis Technology, Atlan Laboratories / SAIC
- **Education:** BS Computer Science and BS Mathematics, Georgetown University, MS Computer Science, The George Washington University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Polytomic, a no-code ETL and reverse-ETL data platform, Completed Y Combinator Winter 2020 after pivoting during the batch, Raised a $2.4M seed round (roughly $2.53M total funding)

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Security Engineer at Atlan Laboratories / SAIC
- **Early career** — NLP Engineer at Basis Technology
- **Pre-2019** — Founded and led the data team at PlanGrid, helping scale the company from 25 to 350 employees ahead of its acquisition by Autodesk
- **Pre-2019** — Head of Engineering (originally Software Engineer) at TopFunnel
- **Pre-2019** — Software Engineer at Ashby
- **2019** — Co-founded Polytomic with Nathan Yergler in San Francisco
- **2020** — Went through Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch and pivoted to the Polytomic data-sync product
- **2021** — Raised a $2.4M seed round; appeared on the Growing Lean / Customer Discovercast YC podcast series

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Polytomic, a no-code ETL and reverse-ETL data platform
- Completed Y Combinator Winter 2020 after pivoting during the batch
- Raised a $2.4M seed round (roughly $2.53M total funding)
- Built and led the data team at PlanGrid through growth from 25 to 350 employees and a near-billion-dollar Autodesk acquisition
- Signed early customers including Brex, Vanta, Sourcegraph, and ShipBob

## Latest updates

- **2021-04** — Featured on the Growing Lean YC podcast series discussing pivoting through Y Combinator and raising $2.4M for Polytomic.

## Links

- Website: https://www.polytomic.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ghalibs/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/ghalib

---

Profile page: https://yespress.io/ghalib-suleiman
Published by YesPress — https://yespress.io
Last updated: 2026-06-24