Amol Sarva

Amol Sarva is an American entrepreneur who founded Knotel, Halo Neuroscience, Knote, Peek, and Virgin Mobile USA.

[1][2] He double-majored in philosophy and economics at Columbia University in New York, where he also founded his first startup (a web development firm called Netatomic) and worked with several Silicon Alley startups including Sonata (backed by Union Square Ventures' founder Fred Wilson's earlier venture fund, Flatiron Partners) and Gobi (an internet service provider sold to the public company Earthlink).

[4] While at Stanford, he was involved with web technology (blogging, marketplaces) and startups - Virgin Mobile, Cymerc (backed by Gus Tai of Trinity Ventures), and also Gobi, chief among them.

Halo served numerous elite sports and military organizations including the US Olympic team, tennis champions, and the US and UK special forces, and was acquired by med tech company Flow Neuroscience.

[20][21] In January 2016, Sarva launched Knotel, the flexible office platform that in 2020 operated across more than 500 buildings in 27 cities in 10 countries, reaching $370mm in revenues before COVID and later acquisition .

[24] Sarva founded the Wireless Founders Coalition For Innovation in 2007 and appeared in US Senate hearings and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) panels on the subject of competition in US telecom.

[29][30] Sarva built a 20,000 square foot, 9 story, architecturally-notable apartment building in Long Island City, Queens, New York from the ground up that was completed in 2012.