# Kul Wadhwa

> Kul Wadhwa is the CEO and founder of BeyondView, a San Francisco proptech company building photorealistic digital twins and game-like walkthroughs for commercial real estate. Before BeyondView, he spent six years at the Wikimedia Foundation, where he ran business development and mobile and launched Wikipedia Zero, bringing free Wikipedia access to over half a billion people in 22 developing-world countries.

- **Role:** CEO & Founder at BeyondView
- **Organizations:** BeyondView, Uncorporeal Systems, Wikimedia Foundation, Cardinal Robotics, Stanford University
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA, Political Science and Public Policy, Stanford University, MA, International Policy Studies (IPS), Stanford University
- **Known for:** Led Wikipedia Zero to reach 500M+ people across 22 countries, Wikipedia Zero won the SXSW Interactive Award, Brokered Wikimedia partnerships with Google and Facebook

## Career timeline

- **1994** — Graduated Stanford with BA in Political Science and Public Policy
- **1995** — Earned MA in International Policy Studies from Stanford
- **pre-2008** — Business and alliances manager at Stanford University
- **2008** — Joined Wikimedia Foundation as Head of Business Development
- **2012** — Led launch of Wikipedia Zero, free mobile Wikipedia access in developing countries
- **2013** — Wikipedia Zero wins SXSW Interactive Award
- **2017** — Named CEO of Uncorporeal Systems (VR/AR), later rebranded as BeyondView
- **2017** — Raised $4.8M Seed round
- **2022** — Launched hyper-realistic game-style walkthrough feature; partnered with WeWork Japan
- **2023** — BeyondView launches new AR feature aligning the real world with digital twin technology

## Achievements

- Led Wikipedia Zero to reach 500M+ people across 22 countries
- Wikipedia Zero won the SXSW Interactive Award
- Brokered Wikimedia partnerships with Google and Facebook
- Founded BeyondView, raising $4.8M in seed funding
- Partnered BeyondView with WeWork Japan
- Advisor to the Knight Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

## Latest updates

- **2023-04** — BeyondView launches new AR feature aligning physical buildings with digital twins.
- **2022-11** — Sand Hill interview: M.R. Asks 3 Questions of Kul Wadhwa on the future of proptech.

## Links

- Website: https://beyondview.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kulwadhwa/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/thekulway

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Last updated: 2026-06-30