Fil is Co-Founder and CEO at Rift, a sales platform that consolidates outbound sales tooling and automates operational work so sales teams can focus on selling. Rift participated in Y Combinator W23 and raised $5.5M in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital.

Fil graduated from MIT in 2017 with degrees in Mathematics and Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering. He was the first business hire at Pulley (YC W20) where he worked on sales and growth, and previously co-founded Point API (YC W18), an email autocomplete tool.

Fil has experience working at CERN, JPL, NASA Space Propulsion Lab, and Quantlab Financial, bringing expertise in big data, statistical modeling, and natural language processing. He met his co-founder Edvard Eriksson while working on the growth team at Pulley.

Since founding Rift in late 2022, the platform has attracted leading companies including Gusto, Capchase, and Rhombus as customers. One customer generated $300,000 in pipeline in just one sequence after implementing Rift's personalized approach.

Rift addresses the challenge that sales teams spend 70% of their time not selling by automating email infrastructure, data cleaning, and lead prioritization. The company secured backing from Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, and Soma Capital in July 2024.