3x founder

Tanooj Luthra

OpenAI • Ex-(Brex, YC, Coinbase) • Angel Investor

Co-founder

2026Member of Technical Staff· OpenAI

Founder · since 2013

Company

OpenAI

Role

Member of Technical Staff

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco, CA

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Elph

Acquired by Brex. Building digital payments infrastructure.

Experience

Career

OpenAI
Member of Technical Staff · San Francisco, CA · 2026 – Present
2026
Nerve AI
Co-founder
Co-Founder and CTO · San Francisco, CA · 2024 – Present
2024
Pioneer Fund
Venture Partner · New York, United States · 2021 – Present
2021
Khushi Baby
Board Member and CTO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2015 – Present
2015
Brex
Head of Engineering for Startups + Banking · 2021 – 2023
2021
Brex
Senior Engineering Manager, Foundation Platform + Observability · New York, United States · 2020 – 2021
2020
Brex
Engineering Manager, Brex Cash · San Francisco Bay Area + New York, New York · 2019 – 2020
2019
Elph
Co-founder
Co-Founder & CTO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2018 – 2023
2018
Coinbase
Senior Crypto Engineer · San Francisco, California · 2017 – 2018
2017
Box
Staff Software Engineer · Redwood City, California · 2014 – 2017
2014
Streem
Co-founder
Co-Founder and CTO · San Jose, CA · 2013 – 2014
2013
Microsoft
Software Engineer · Redmond, Washington · 2012
2012
mChron
Software Engineer · 2011
2011
Mimvi Inc
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2010
2010
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Software Engineer · University of California, San Diego · 2008
2008

sf | nyc elph (s12) -> box -> coinbase -> streem (w19) -> brex -> nerve -> open ai