10 Facts About Sunil Paul

Sunil Paul was born on November 12,1964 and is an Internet entrepreneur who launched Spring Free EV in 2021.

Sunil Paul has previously founded companies such as Brightmail and Freeloader, Inc Sunil Paul was the co-founder and CEO of Sidecar, a San Francisco, based an on-demand peer-to-peer taxi service that later pivoted away from ridesharing toward deliveries of various items.

In 1996, Sunil Paul co-founded and launched his first startup with Mark Pincus, Freeloader, Inc.

Sunil Paul served as the Chief Executive Officer from January 1996 - June 1996 when Freeloader, Inc was acquired by Individual, Inc.

In 1998 Sunil Paul founded Brightmail, an e-mail filtering company, and raised $55 million in three rounds of venture capital led by Accel, TCV and Symantec.

Sunil Paul is an angel investor with investments in companies including as LinkedIn, Solazyme and has served on the board of Zynga since November 2011.

In February 2012 Sunil Paul co-founded Sidecar, an on-demand peer-to-peer ridesharing service with Jahan Khanna, Adrian Fortino, and Nick Allen.

Sunil Paul raised $39 million over its life and sold to General Motors in January of 2016.

Sunil Paul launched Spring Free EV in 2021, a fintech company designed to have climate level impact by accelerating adoption of electric vehicles.

Sunil Paul is active in clean technology non profit projects such as Clean Economy Network, Gigaton Awards and Gigaton Throwdown, Carbon War Room and MapLight.