# Rakesh Goyal

> Rakesh Goyal is the co-founder and CEO of Velt, a Y Combinator (W22) startup building the collaboration layer for the internet. Velt ships a full-stack SDK that lets product teams drop contextual comments, notifications, presence, huddles, async recordings and CRDT-based multiplayer editing into their apps in days instead of months. Before Velt he spent roughly nine years as a product manager at Google, where he helped launch augmented reality in Google Maps and Search and worked across Payments, Access and the Next Billion Users initiative. He frames Velt's ambition simply: what Okta is to auth and Algolia is to search, Velt wants to be to collaboration.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Velt
- **Organizations:** Velt, Superflow, Google, Y Combinator (W22)
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** Bachelor of Commerce, Marketing, St. Xavier's College, Certification in Disruptive Strategy, Harvard Business School Online, Certification in Advanced Project Management, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Velt, a Y Combinator-backed collaboration infrastructure company, Helped launch augmented reality in Google Maps and Google Search as a product manager, Raised $2.77 million in seed funding from Y Combinator, Spider Capital, Amino Capital, First Row Partners and angels from Google, Stripe and SAP

## Career timeline

- **2011** — Joined Google, beginning roughly nine years across product and operations roles
- **2011-2020** — Product Manager at Google working on Augmented Reality (Maps & Search), Payments, Access, Next Billion Users; also a Design Thinking and technical trainer
- **2020** — Founded the company (initially the website-collaboration tool Superflow) with co-founder Solène Oudet
- **2022** — Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch
- **2023** — Announced $2.77M seed round to expand the Velt collaboration SDK
- **2024-2026** — Scaled Velt into a full collaboration stack for B2B SaaS with customers including Google, Pendo, Varonis, Runway and HeyGen; launched AI plugins for Cursor and Claude

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Velt, a Y Combinator-backed collaboration infrastructure company
- Helped launch augmented reality in Google Maps and Google Search as a product manager
- Raised $2.77 million in seed funding from Y Combinator, Spider Capital, Amino Capital, First Row Partners and angels from Google, Stripe and SAP
- Built an SDK adopted by companies including Google, Pendo, Varonis, Runway, HeyGen, LambdaTest and Leadpages
- Achieved SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA-BAA compliance for the Velt platform

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Velt continues to position itself as the collaboration stack for B2B SaaS, with AI-powered plugins for Cursor and Claude that scaffold collaboration features automatically.

## Links

- Website: https://velt.dev
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmgoyal/
- GitHub: https://github.com/veltdev

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Last updated: 2026-06-21