Palantir alum and founder
Hamel Kothari
Advisor; co-founder and former CTO at Brigit
Co-founder of Brigit who runs its technology and credit risk. Brigit is now part of Upbound Group.
Kothari grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts and studied at UC Berkeley. Palantir mafia lists say he was a forward deployed engineer there. He co-founded Brigit with Zuben Mathews and made the Forbes 30 Under 30 finance list in 2021. He still leads Brigit after Upbound bought it in 2025.
At Palantir
- Forward Deployed Engineer
- 2012 to 2015
Career
- before Brigit: Palantir, forward deployed engineer
- Brigit: Co-founder, CTO
- 2025: Brigit acquired by Upbound, stays on