About Us

Teleport, Inc

We build software for digital nomads.

Moving ourselves and our families around the globe we have become all too familiar with the hassles this lifestyle brings. Figuring out where to stay, what to expect, where to pay taxes or which visa to get. Rinse and repeat.

We mapped out hundreds of relocation nuisances we could fix with software. Once these get solved millions of people like us could benefit. So there was no choice but to start this company.

Over the last decade most of our team were busy building Skype which turned out to be quite effective making the world smaller in the metaphorical sense. We believe we can now rearrange the human population physically as well.

Teleport’s core team is split between Palo Alto, California and Tallinn, Estonia.
We do expect our team members actively dogfood our products and work from locations that work for them.

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  • Sten Tamkivi

    Sten Tamkivi

    Co-Founder & CEO

    Has Lived In:

    Tartu, Tallinn, London, Singapore, Palo Alto

    Sten is a tech entrepreneur, most recently residing at Andreessen Horowitz. After starting a few companies in Estonia he joined a startup called Skype as an early executive in 2005, where he ran the original R&D office and held several global product engineering leadership roles for 7 years. He holds a MS in Management from Stanford GSB.

    “It has been shown by VC investment-related research: cold hard cash will eventually follow the international corridors where smart people are already on the move.”

    - from Why Silicon Valley Can’t Find Europe, TechCrunch, Jan 2014

  • Balaji Srinivasan

    Balaji Srinivasan

    Co-Founder

    Has Lived In:

    New York, Stanford, Tamil Nadu (India), Singapore

    Balaji is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and previously was a co-founder of Counsyl, a genomics startup that tests more than 4% of all US births. Prior to co-founding Counsyl, Dr. Srinivasan taught data mining, statistics, and computational biology in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University. He holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford.

    “The future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant.”

    - from Software Is Reorganizing the World, Wired, Nov 2013

  • Silver Keskküla

    Silver Keskküla

    Co-Founder

    Has Lived In:

    Kuressaare, Tartu, Helsinki, Gothenburg, Beijing, Lausanne, Palo Alto

    Silver is a hacker, a researcher and a nomad. He joined Skype as the first researcher in the core team in the early days which led to his most recent role as a Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft. At Skype Silver was optimizing peer-to-peer network topologies using machine learning and AI and pushed neural networks to hundreds of millions of computers. His nomadic lifestyle has led him to pursue education in universities such as Tsinghua, Stanford and MIT. As a Phd dropout from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology he holds a Masters in Computer Science from Chalmers University of Technology.

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