# Rushil Goel

> Rushil Goel is the CEO and Co-founder of Nirvana Insurance, an AI-native commercial trucking insurance company valued at $1.5 billion after a $100M Series D in December 2025. Before founding Nirvana, he spent five years at Samsara scaling fleet telematics from zero to $400M+ ARR, where he spotted the gap between how much safety data existed and how little insurance companies used it. An IIT Bombay CS grad with a Wharton MBA, Goel has built two companies and scaled products across India and the US - from mobile payments at Ola to connected fleet operations - before channeling everything into rebuilding commercial insurance from the ground up.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-founder at Nirvana Insurance
- **Organizations:** Nirvana Insurance, Samsara, Ola, The Boston Consulting Group, AirCare Labs, MIT, Wharton School
- **Nationality:** Indian-American
- **Education:** B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, PhD Candidate, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MBA with Honors, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- **Known for:** Built Nirvana Insurance to $1.5B valuation with $262M total funding in under 4 years, Scaled fleet telematics at Samsara from zero to $400M+ ARR across 20,000+ customers, Grew Ola Money to $1B in annual transactions as one of India's top mobile wallets

## Career timeline

- **2009** — Visiting Researcher at Stanford University
- **2010-2011** — Research Assistant at MIT (PhD Candidate, EECS)
- **2011-2013** — MBA with Honors at Wharton; Co-founded AirCare Labs (digital health/telematics startup, later acquired by Cardinal Health)
- **2013-2015** — Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
- **2015-2016** — Senior Director / GM at Ola Money - scaled to $1B in annual transactions, one of India's top mobile wallets
- **2016-2021** — VP Product / GM Fleet at Samsara - built fleet telematics from scratch to $400M+ ARR, 20,000+ customers
- **2021** — Co-founded Nirvana Insurance with Abhay Mitra and Alex Carges; raised $3.2M seed from General Catalyst and Lightspeed
- **2022** — Nirvana raises $22M Series A; sells first insurance policy
- **2023** — Nirvana raises $57M Series B
- **2025-03** — Nirvana raises $80M Series C at $830M valuation
- **2025-12** — Nirvana raises $100M Series D at $1.5B valuation; exceeds $100M in premiums written

## Achievements

- Built Nirvana Insurance to $1.5B valuation with $262M total funding in under 4 years
- Scaled fleet telematics at Samsara from zero to $400M+ ARR across 20,000+ customers
- Grew Ola Money to $1B in annual transactions as one of India's top mobile wallets
- Co-founded AirCare Labs (acquired by Cardinal Health)
- Nirvana trained predictive models on 30+ billion miles of real-world fleet driving data
- Nirvana exceeded $100M in annual premiums written in 2025
- Led Nirvana to double year-over-year growth in 2025
- Named fastest-growing insurtech in its first year
- Built AI-native insurance OS covering underwriting, claims, and fleet safety services

## Latest updates

- **2025-12** — Nirvana Insurance raises $100M Series D at $1.5B valuation, led by Valor Equity Partners
- **2025-12** — Nirvana exceeds $100M in annual premiums written; doubles year-over-year growth
- **2025-03** — Nirvana raises $80M Series C at $830M valuation
- **2025-03** — Nirvana surpasses 30 billion miles of fleet driving data in its AI training dataset

## Links

- Website: https://nirvanatech.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rushilgoel/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/rushilgoel

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Last updated: 2026-05-23