Nilu Kulasingham

Nilu Kulasingham

Startup CEO & Full Stack Developer

I build companies and ship products. Two startups founded from zero, both acquired. $770K raised. Products reaching 100M+ users. Built the MVP for a Y Combinator company.

Currently at Zupee in Gurgaon, India.

$770K

Raised

2

Acquisitions

100M+

Users reached

Founded

Nucanon Paravine

Backed by

Antler Futureverse Skalata a16z

Worked at

Zupee Pearson SBS Qantas Gamurs CBS

Press

Startup Daily Inc42 Entrepreneur

Work

Nucanon

Acquired by Zupee

Founder & CEO · 2022 — 2025 · Sydney

AI-powered narrative design platform for game developers. Used LLMs, diffusion models, and retrieval-augmented generation to help studios build stories, worldbuilding, and lore at scale.

  • Raised $770K from Jason Calacanis, Skalata Ventures, Antler, Futureverse
  • First and largest gaming acquisition between Australia and India
  • Acquired by Zupee, an Indian unicorn with 100M+ users
  • a16z SPEEDRUN finalist
Backed by Antler Futureverse Skalata a16z
Press: Startup Daily · Inc42 · Entrepreneur · Skalata

Paravine

Acquired by CBS CBS Interactive

Founder · 2014 — 2016 · Adelaide

League of Legends esports publication. Identified a gap in Asian competitive coverage and built a platform from scratch, scaling to 800,000+ monthly active users with a team of 20+ writers.

  • Acquired by CBS Interactive to form their esports editorial division
  • Post-acquisition, led onGamers' League of Legends editorial team
  • 800,000+ monthly active users at peak

Experience

Zupee Zupee CEO, Nucanon
Jul 2025 — Present

Remained as CEO post-acquisition. Architecting AI strategy for Zupee's 100M+ user gaming platform.

Pearson Pearson Senior Frontend Developer
Sep 2020 — Dec 2021

Led development of Bronte, a real-time collaborative CMS. Coordinated team across US, AU, and India.

SBS Australia SBS Australia Senior Frontend Developer
Feb — Aug 2020

Built SBS News' first live blog. Led AMP to Apple News Format conversion.

Qantas Loyalty Qantas Loyalty Senior Frontend Developer
Mar 2019 — Feb 2020

Migrated Qantas Rewards Store from JSP to React. Built features for Qantas Wine and Marketplace.

Futureverse Futureverse Full Stack Developer
Mar 2018 — Mar 2019

Built blockchain infrastructure with Rust/Wasm (Substrate). Led frontend for multiple React apps.

Gamurs Gamurs Software Engineer
Sep 2016 — Mar 2018

Led frontend for Dot Esports. Architected headless CMS with React, Redux, and Node.

Technologies

ReactTypeScriptNext.jsVueNode.jsPythonRustGraphQLWebSocketsAWSDockerKubernetesLLMsRAG

References

“Nilu knows the territory inside out. Rare insight, technical prowess, and intimate knowledge of a widespread problem.”

Tom Smalley · Skalata Ventures

“I've never met a more hardworking and dedicated developer. His tenacious and adaptive intellect has never ceased to amaze.”

Aaron Robb · Frontend Engineering

“A down-to-earth leader focused on problem-solving and spearheading projects with great efficiency.”

Daniel Yordanov · CBS Interactive

“Nilu demonstrated a tremendous work ethic in every project. It was a pleasure working with him.”

Jacob Wolf · ESPN, Journalist of the Year

Contact

nkulasingham@gmail.com →
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