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Rahul Pangam is co-founder and CEO of fraud-detection startup Simility, which has $7.2 million in seed funding led by Accel Partners and Trinity Ventures and dual headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., and Hyderabad, India.

Founded in 2014, Simility is already analyzing millions of transactions per week for customers on four continents as part of a limited beta release of its online fraud-detection platform.

Prior to Simility, Rahul was a director at Google, where he led a global team of 200 that reduced fraud in ads by 90 percent. He is a fraud-detection industry veteran, having spent more than six years at Google building teams responsible for fighting fraud and abuse in Google’s ads and its local and social products.

Prior to Google, Rahul was a lead engineer at General Electric, working on GE’s smart grid software products.

Rahul holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and M.S. in electrical engineering from Clemson University.

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