Founder Profile
Filip Kaliszan
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Filip Kaliszan?
Filip Kaliszan is a founder of Verkada, which was founded in 2016 with Hans Robertson, Benjamin Bercovitz and James Ren.
- Company founded
- Verkada
- Founded
- 2016
- Co-founders
- Hans Robertson, Benjamin Bercovitz and James Ren
Background
Stanford University computer science; previously co-founder of CourseRank.
Founding Story
Filip Kaliszan co-founded Verkada in 2016 and has been its CEO since. Before Verkada he co-founded CourseRank, a Stanford course-review site later acquired by Chegg, with Benjamin Bercovitz and James Ren. As CEO he has led the company's expansion to six product lines, the response to the 2021 breach and 2024 FTC/DOJ order, the 2025 funding rounds at $4.5 billion and $5.8 billion, and the 2026 NVIDIA partnership. Filip Kaliszan was born in 1989.
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