Rahul Singh, the former Distelli and Amazon exec, is on the move. Geekwire reported that the tech executive is now connected with Compass, a tech startup involved in real estate. Singh follows former Microsoft exec Joseph Sirosh, who previously agreed to come work with the blossoming real estate platform company.
Rahul Singh will step in as the new VP of engineering at Compass. He will also be reporting directly reporting to chief technology officer Joseph Sirosh. Prior to joining, Singh had founded Distelli, a startup designed to make code deployment easier for software engineers. The company, which he had been CEO of, was acquired by Puppet two years ago.
Singh was also connected at one time with Amazon, working with the company as a software engineer. He was instrumental in getting the Amazon Web Services through its early stages, as well as getting the company's retail platform working.
Compass, meanwhile, had been busy in more ways than one. Aside from employee acquisition, Compass had also been acquiring property. Compass, according to Tech Crunch, had also recently acquired Contactually, which is an AI-based CRM platform. It has features which are a big help to real estate brokers and brokerages, including the linking up of lists and property indexes.
Contactually had actually been working together with Compass long before the acquisition. The platform had provided the back-end for Compass' in-house CRM service, which it had launched last year. The acquisition may prove to be a mere formality at this point.
No details about Compass' acquisition of the company came out, but it may be somewhere around $18 million, a value that the company had raised from investor companies such as Grotech, Point Nine Capital, and Rally Ventures. In 2016, the company was again valued, reaching an amount of $30 million.
The acquisition of companies and personnel are just a sign of where Compass intends to go on with its corporate moves. Only last year, it had opened an office in the Seattle region. Joseph Sirosh's entry into the company followed, after serving as Microsoft's chief technology officer for artificial intelligence. The company had also previously announced it was opening its doors to 100 engineers from the Seattle area, intent on expanding its initial office.
