# Sukhmeet Toor

> Sukhmeet Toor is an engineering leader in San Francisco who works in the leadership office at ID.me, the digital-identity company that verifies who you are for the IRS, state unemployment agencies, and retailers. Before identity, he was in the business of matchmaking: he co-founded Dil Mil, a dating app for South Asians that produced roughly a wedding a day, and then, spotting the same family-and-community values in another group, he and his co-founder built Shalom, a Jewish dating app. A Microsoft Outlook-for-Mac engineering manager turned serial builder, Toor has since worked at Meta and Pencil Spaces and is involved with Actual AI, which builds tools for managers whose teams now mix humans and AI agents.

- **Role:** Chief of Staff to the CEO at ID.me
- **Organizations:** ID.me, Dil Mil, Meta, Microsoft, Pencil Spaces, Actual AI
- **Nationality:** Canadian-American
- **Education:** B.S., Computer Science, University of Toronto Mississauga (Erindale College)
- **Known for:** Co-founded Dil Mil, which reported over 5 million matches and roughly one marriage a day at its peak, Grew Dil Mil to acquisition by Dating.com in 2019, Shipped Outlook for Mac as an engineering manager at Microsoft

## Career timeline

- **2002-2006** — Studied Computer Science at the University of Toronto Mississauga
- **2007-2014** — Engineering Manager at Microsoft, working on Outlook for Mac
- **2014** — Co-founded Dil Mil, a dating app for the South Asian community, with KJ Dhaliwal
- **2016** — Dil Mil raised a Pre-Series A round (~$2.7M)
- **2017** — Co-launched Shalom, a Jewish dating app built on the Dil Mil platform
- **2019** — Dil Mil acquired by Dating.com
- **post-2019** — Engineering roles at Meta and Pencil Spaces
- **current** — Chief of Staff / engineering leadership at ID.me; involved with Actual AI

## Achievements

- Co-founded Dil Mil, which reported over 5 million matches and roughly one marriage a day at its peak
- Grew Dil Mil to acquisition by Dating.com in 2019
- Shipped Outlook for Mac as an engineering manager at Microsoft
- Extended the Dil Mil matchmaking platform to a second community with the Shalom app
- Moved into digital identity at ID.me, a company backing IRS, state agency, and retail verification

## Latest updates

- **2024-11** — Shared news about ID.me closing a secondary tender offer
- **2025-09** — ID.me, where Toor works, raised a Series E round (latest funding ~$65M)

## Links

- Website: https://id.me
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toorsukhmeet/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/toorsukhmeet
- GitHub: https://github.com/toorsukhmeet

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Last updated: 2026-07-08