Vimal Gopal

Every memory I have of my childhood involves breaking my toys and building stuff using the spares.
I fell in love with technology at an early age.We have build robots during school days to compete with colleges and build cars robots during my college days.

I started my first startup in my final year of college which made hydrogen cooking stoves using Solar energy. We quickly grew into a team of 12 people and raised 100K In investment from USA, IIT Madras, Kerala Govt. But we were never able to bring down the price of the stove to start commercial production.That was the end of my first startup.
I joined redrawlife.com as their first employee.Although I used to code for fun earlier it was the first time I was coding on a professional level. I was helped a lot by former Amazon employees at redrawlife to build scalable and good code.As I had a business background I started working on automating things around the company which directly impacted growth. We were selected till the YC 2016 interview round after 6 months.
A couple of years after that ex -Redrawlife team started Himalayan base an NLP chatbot for Tour Operators for which I build the MVP and worked on growth tools.
I am currently looking for opportunities in startups which are trying to build strong technology bases products.

Tour and Travel, NLP, Fin-tech are my preferred areas.Also lately I am a huge Indiehacker fan !!