Introduction

Nilesh Rathore is a San Francisco-based technology entrepreneur. He co-founded Orb, a Web3 social app built on the Lens Protocol that was acquired by MaskDAO in 2025. Before Orb, he held roles including Co-Founder and CTO of Blink and co-founder of Dwellfood.

Education

• Master of Science in Computer Science, California State University – East Bay (degree dates 2021–2023; date range attributed to RocketReach).
• Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, University Institute of Technology, RGPV (source: The Org).

Career

Early roles

Rathore began his career as an Android Developer at InnoEye Technologies. He later worked as a Team Lead & Mobile App Developer at Coditas, served as a Research Assistant at California State University – East Bay, and worked as a Technical Lead at Rain Jobs.

Entrepreneurial ventures

• Rathore co-founded Dwellfood, a subscription-based food-tech platform that he states served over 100,000 meals (self-reported on his personal site: https://nilesh.so/).
• He was Co-Founder and CTO of Blink (November 2021 – March 2022).
• He also developed ResumeX, a resume-builder application that he states achieved over 75,000 downloads on the Play Store (self-reported on his personal site: https://nilesh.so/).

Co-Founding of Orb

• Rathore co-founded Orb in May 2022 alongside Kimmo Sirén and Alireza Mohammadrezabeig.
• He served as Co-Founder and CEO of Orb; sources describe this role in the past tense following Orb's 2025 acquisition by MaskDAO. No source in the provided materials confirms he holds an ongoing title at MaskDAO ^[2].
• In an April 2024 interview, Rathore described Orb's approach as "a community space, fully owned and operated by its users".
• Rathore's personal site states Orb "grew to 500,000 users" prior to acquisition (self-reported); this figure differs from the "50,000 monthly active users" figure reported by The Block and Mask Network's announcement ^[1].

Recent Developments

After the acquisition of Orb by MaskDAO, Rathore stepped down from his role as CEO. He joined HeyClicky as a product engineer, where he collaborates with his friend Farza to develop a simplified interface for interacting with AI agents using voice technology ^{[2] [1]}.

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