Arnab Raychaudhuri

I love to build. Engineer, Obama Hire, 2x VC-backed founder 🏄🏽‍♂️👨🏽‍💻


2023 - 2020
Founder & CEO of Zomo. An app to instantly create a membership community (fitness focused). Includes website creation, scheduling, community, livestreaming, subscriptions, payments. Helped 1000s of brands + creators. Here's a demo.
2020
I was an Entrepreneur in Residence. Learned Flutter and a built mobile apps. Also built a hackthon hosting platform during covid.
2014 - 2019
Founder & CEO of Apollo AI (initially HeadsUP!). Our vision was to make a Jarvis/ ChatGPT. Pre-seed was from selling my house.

We started out building hardware (in hindsight a bad idea 😂). First it was head-up display which was cool and was a finalist in few a startup competitions. Then we cut the hardware down to an Amazon echo-like device for the car. Hardware was hard, but the software was valuable.

So we pivoted to (software only) Apollo AI (voice ai). We had car companies customers such as Jaguar, Land Rover, and Kia. We also went through Techstars.
2009 - 2013
I was appointed by President Obama's White House to help oversee engineers at the Pentagon (Top Secret SCI).

I was definitely too young and under-qualified 😂. It was a massive learning experience on how the government/ White House operates. I had a $2 billion dollar budget overseeing three Army commands.

Authored multiple Presidential Memorandums and Reports (ex. America's Great Outdoors) for President Obama.
2008 - 2009
Field organizer for the 2008 Obama Campaign. The campaign was high tech and our efforts were instrumental in winning Ohio (swing state) and the Presidency.
2007
Mechanical Engineer at an HVAC firm in NYC. Tons of CAD work. I also interned at Parsons Brinckerhoff in college.
2007
BS at Syracuse University majoring in Mechanical Engineering.
Me Talking
How to Get Into YC or Techstars
Hired By President Obama
Building a $1M Startup
How to 10x your network
Finding new customers with email
Membership community