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Early Stage Founders

• Andrew McKinzie (San Francisco)

  • Investor at Acrew Capital focusing on applied AI/ML, fintech, and enterprise SaaS. Currently a fellow at Perplexity and co-founder of Assembli AI.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Antoine Marcel (Paris, France)

  • Serial founder currently building a stealth startup focused on hyperspecialized speech-to-text technology that outperforms existing providers. Previously founded LATICE.AI and The Incentive.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Ben Shih (Boston)

  • PhD in tactile sensing and dexterous manipulation, previously Senior Robotics Engineer at Symbotic and Creator. Currently affiliated with Princeton NLP and formerly at Meta. Now co-founder of a stealth startup.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Danny Rosett (Greater Los Angeles)

  • Media and entertainment consultant with experience as COO at Overture Films and interim CFO at Hammer Museum. Now founder of a stealth startup developing treatments for autoimmune and neuroimmune conditions including POTS, long COVID, and CFS.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• David Zhao (United States of America)

  • Stanford CS grad turned Google PM, now co-founder of Pika, building the front office for home services.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Jonty Corrin (United Kingdom)

  • Investor focused on data, compute, health, and bio sectors. Currently angel investing and building Future Bio. Fellow at Next Chapter and investor at Ananda Impact Ventures.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Lane B. (Mountain View)

  • CS/Math student at Vanderbilt and Z Fellow, now co-founder of Acre Robotics working on computer vision for agriculture. Previously interned at Scale AI and worked as a research software engineer at Vanderbilt.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Vignesh Rajendran (New York)

  • Former investor at GSV Ventures turned product leader at LILT AI, now co-founder of a stealth startup.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

• Aryan Shah (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Metis and former Partner at Dorm Room Fund

• Jason Gross (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Theorem and former Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Justin Waugh (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Approximate Labs and former Chief Scientist at Unsupervised

• Moshe Shalev (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Decart AI and previously served as a Project Manager at Israeli Military Intelligence - Unit 8200

• Sidharth Menon (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Carson AI (YC W26) and former Tech Lead at Palantir Technologies

• Wayne Nelms (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Ornn and a former quantitative trader at Susquehanna International Group

Investors Followed

• Ashley Jepson (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Caio Bolognesi (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Chelsea Zou (Twitter, LinkedIn)

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Early Stage Founders

• Andrei Serban (San Francisco)

  • Repeat founder and former Product Lead at Rippling. Previously founded and led Fuzzbuzz for 3 years, now building Console.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Daniel Salinas (San Francisco)

  • Former Product & Finance at Rappi, now CEO & Co-Founder of Remi and CEO & Founder of Actioners Residency. Repeat founder with 2 exits.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Jessie Dong (San Francisco)

  • Stanford CS student and co-founder & CEO of Airstitch. Previously worked at Tesla and Mithril Compute, currently doing research at Stanford AI Lab and serving on the investment team at Phoenix Rising focusing on AI infrastructure.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• John Fiorentino (New York)

  • Founder at Fio Companies, building consumer brands including Gravity Blanket (acquired), Moon Pod, Moon Pals, and Birthdate Candles. Also owns Jean’s NYC Restaurant.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Lane B. (Mountain View)

  • CS/Math student at Vanderbilt and Z Fellow, now co-founder of Acre Robotics working on computer vision for agriculture. Previously interned at Scale AI and worked as a research software engineer at Vanderbilt.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Mason Hensley (Richmond)

  • Former CTO at a life sciences unicorn, now founder of Gwaihir Robotics working on robotics supply chain solutions. Also serves as Managing Director at Texabama Labs and advisor at Geyser Data.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Mudith Jayasekara (San Francisco)

  • Medical doctor and Rhodes Scholar pursuing ML PhD at Oxford, co-founder of Parsed working on AI solutions for healthcare. Also co-founded Ethical Education, an educational organization.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Samarth Pratap Singh (Allahabad, India)

  • Undergraduate student at VIT studying full stack development with a focus on AI and ML. Co-founder and CTO of a startup, with previous experience at Google and Delphi.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Thomas Milton (Sheffield, United Kingdom)

  • Co-founder and CEO of Amodo Design, working on hardware development. Also serves on boards for Renaissance Philanthropy and Centre for British Progress.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

• Joshua Belofsky (Twitter, LinkedIn) - General Trajectory (YC W25) and was previously an Undergraduate Researcher at Caltech

• Richard Ou (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Doe and serves as a Board Advisor at Penn Engineering

• Stevie Graham (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Teller Inc, and was previously the first EU employee at Twilio

• Yansen Z. (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Technical Staff at OpenAI and Founder at Hippo Scribe

Investors Followed

• Akshay Mehra (Twitter, LinkedIn)

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Notes

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Early Stage Founders

• Aarav Wattal (California)

  • Stanford EE+CS student and undergraduate researcher, building Majestic Labs. Previously ML and design verification intern at AMD.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Andrew Chan (Greater Los Angeles)

  • Venture capital investor and Managing Partner at Atas VC. Previously worked at BuildersVC, NASA JPL, and Caltech. Also co-founder of Veridian Technologies and serves on the VC Advisory Board at Los Angeles Venture Association.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Caleb Winston (West Hollywood)

  • AI systems researcher at Stanford, currently director at a stealth startup.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Cris Lenta (San Francisco)

  • AI researcher with work published at MIT Press and one exit under his belt. Now building a general-purpose emergent life simulator at a stealth startup.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Georgia Witchel (New York)

  • Deep-tech founder and CEO of Mantis Biotech, previously CTO at Louiza Labs and algorithm engineer at Theo Health. Also an author, painter, and ice climber.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Mack Hopen (Seattle)

  • Materials engineer turned entrepreneur, currently Partner + Engineer at Acequia Capital. Previously founded an energy storage startup and serves as advisor at Milvus Advanced.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Michael Wax (Munich, Germany)

  • Engineer turned GP at BlueYard Capital and Co-Founder and Chairman at Forto. Previously studied at TUM and CDTM. Active business angel with investments in 70+ companies.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Nils Cremer (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

  • Computer Science student and software engineer who worked at JetBrains and QuantCo before co-founding Tendrils Compute, a chip company.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Oliver Stark (San Francisco)

  • Former Senior Mechanical Engineer and Team Lead for hands at 1X, now founder of a stealth robotics startup.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Omar H. (Landsberg, Germany)

  • Competitive programmer turned VC investor at Project A, focusing on AI and deep tech at pre-seed and seed stages. Co-founder of DealDock and mentor at TUM.ai.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Robin Huang

  • Co-founder of ComfyUI, a node-based interface for Stable Diffusion and other AI image generation models.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Shaya Zarkesh (Saratoga)

  • Quantitative trader at Jane Street who moved into AI research and engineering, working at Anthropic after a stint at Adept.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Tianwei Yin (Australia)

  • Working on multimodal AGI at Reve. Previously at MIT and Adobe.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Tj Richardson (New York metropolitan area)

  • Data scientist at Advent International, previously investment banking analyst at Perella Weinberg Partners. Now founder of fundable.ai, building real-time venture news and deal sourcing tools for VCs.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

• Alex Koumpas (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Lucent and an Entrepreneur in Residence at Entrepreneurs First

• Andrew W. (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Valon and former Principal at Soros Fund Management

• Chintan Parikh (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Stealth (YC F25) and former VP Engineering at Secureframe

• Gabriel Dymowski (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Pocket (YC W26) and former CEO at DoxyChain, recognized as Forbes 25 Under 25

• Lindon Gao (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Dyna Robotics and former Vice President of Engineering at Instacart

• Narayana Aaditya (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Skillsync (YC W26) and Creator at Ideal Gas

• Sai Krishna Srirampur (Twitter, LinkedIn) - ClickHouse and CEO and Co-founder of PeerDB, which was acquired by ClickHouse

• Sai Mandhan (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Remedy (YC F25) and previously worked in machine learning at Nike and research at NASA

Investors Followed

• Annmaria Antony (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Cannon Kissane (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Gaby Lorenzi (Twitter, LinkedIn)

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Notes

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• If you have any questions, suggestions, or need custom tracking, please reach out to contact@poach.vc

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Early Stage Founders

• Ademi Adeniji (California)

  • PhD student at UC Berkeley AI Research, previously research intern at NVIDIA and research assistant at Stanford AI Lab. CEO & Co-Founder of Mecha, focusing on reinforcement learning and robot learning.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Caleb Winston (West Hollywood)

  • AI systems researcher at Stanford, currently director at a stealth startup.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Emily Yuan (California)

  • Co-founder and COO of Corgi, also co-founder of Basket Entertainment. Previously worked at Beagle.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Nils Cremer (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

  • Computer Science student and software engineer who worked at JetBrains and QuantCo before co-founding Tendrils Compute, a chip company.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Ryan Thorpe (United Kingdom)

  • Ex-Revolut growth marketer who built 40 apps to 50M downloads. Now co-founder of Fload, running a $950K/yr app with zero employees using AI agents.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Soumyadeep Mukherjee 🏡 (Bengaluru, India)

  • IIT Kharagpur grad turned co-founder and CTO of Dashverse, working on AI, infrastructure, and robotics. Previously Associate Director of Product and Engineering at udaan.com and founding engineer at Morphle Labs.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

• Ali Ahmed (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Bread Labs and previously served as a Product Manager at GitHub working on Copilot

• Chintan Parikh (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Stealth (YC F25) and former VP Engineering at Secureframe

• Frank Hutter (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Prior Labs and Professor of Computer Science at University of Freiburg, specializing in tabular foundation models and AutoML

• Haakam Aujla (Twitter, LinkedIn) - AgentMail (YC S25) and former Quantitative Trader Intern at Optiver

Investors Followed

• Alan Markfeld, CIMA® (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Ben Grabiner (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Giovanni D’Antonio (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Kyle Getsiv (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Matan Roet (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Michael Robinson (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Nikita Andersson (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Palak Goel (Twitter, LinkedIn)

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Notes

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Early Stage Founders

• Andy Li (San Francisco)

  • Former Apple product designer and YC W24 founder building Keywords AI, an LLMops platform. Previously worked in product engineering at John Deere.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Anirudh Oppiliappan (Finland)

  • Software engineer turned co-founder of Tangled, a decentralized git hosting and collaboration platform. Previously worked on managed Kubernetes at UpCloud and was a founder in residence at Antler.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Christopher L. Jones (California)

  • US Navy veteran and Caltech PhD turned founder, now CEO at Suitebriar. Previously worked at Google and serves as guest lecturer at UC Berkeley Haas. Building AI for behavioral health and startup tooling.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Ethan Shaotran (Greater Los Angeles)

  • Harvard researcher turned founder of Energize.AI. Previously worked as a machine learning developer at Energy Impact Partners. Currently working at DOGE.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Ilan Zerbib (San Francisco)

  • Repeat founder and former Director of Engineering at Shopify, now building Sapiom to create AI-native financial infrastructure for the agentic economy. Previously founded Earny, which was acquired.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Jessie Dong (San Francisco)

  • Stanford CS student and co-founder & CEO of Airstitch. Previously worked at Tesla and Mithril Compute, currently doing research at Stanford AI Lab and serving on the investment team at Phoenix Rising focusing on AI infrastructure.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Karl-Gustav Kallasmaa (London, United Kingdom)

  • Fellow at AI Circle and Unicorn Mafia, currently founding Attensira to help businesses with AI recommendations.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Kelsey Pool (San Francisco)

  • Serial robotics entrepreneur and co-founder of a stealth robotics startup focused on building general purpose robots. Previously founded Bright Block and co-founded Zeroth Bot.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Neil Mitra (Waterloo, Canada)

  • UBC Presidential Scholar who worked on hardware at Midjourney before founding Mitra Biotechnologies in 2020. Masason Foundation member and Z Fellow.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Nils Cremer (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

  • Computer Science student and software engineer who worked at JetBrains and QuantCo before co-founding Tendrils Compute, a chip company.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Shrish P. (Stanford)

  • Stanford student working as a VC analyst at Stanford Sustainable Investment Group and VC scout at Afore Capital. Also organizing sponsorships for TreeHacks.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Vignesh Rajendran (New York)

  • Former investor at GSV Ventures turned product leader at LILT AI, now co-founder of a stealth startup.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Wayde Gilliam (San Francisco)

  • Full-stack web and ML developer, creator of blurr (an open source deep learning library), and active contributor and community leader at fast.ai. Previously founded Cantos Labs and worked as a software engineer at Rutter. Currently co-founder and CTO at a stealth startup.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

• Abhijay Rana (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Brex and founder of Nuntius (YC S25)

• Aryan S. (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Metis and former Partner at Dorm Room Fund

• Daniel Rupawalla (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Nuntius (YC S25) and previously founded a company that was acquired by US News

• Grace Li (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Design Arena and an AI/ML researcher at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

• Liam Fuller (Twitter, LinkedIn) - age 17 after dropping out of high school

• Luciano Arango (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Flex and previously co-founded and served as CEO at Maza

• Sai Krishna Srirampur (Twitter, LinkedIn) - ClickHouse and CEO and Co-founder of PeerDB, which was acquired by ClickHouse

Investors Followed

• Aidan Pak (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Andy Kangpan (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Eleanor Liu (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Felix Martinez (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Maria Heyen (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Phil Brady (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Sasha McKenzie (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Shayan Shafii (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Vikram Ramakrishnan (Twitter, LinkedIn)

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Notes

• We curate interesting people that have some signals that they might be interesting founders either now or in the future. They are not guaranteed to be currently founding or interested in investment.

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Early Stage Founders

• Abhishek Sethi (India)

  • Tax manager at Grant Thornton turned co-founder of En Pointe Adwisers, which he’s been building since 2017.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Alon Gubkin (San Francisco)

  • Co-founder and CTO of Aporia, which was acquired by Coralogix. Now VP AI Engineering at Coralogix and building something new on the side.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Anne Marie Droste (San Francisco)

  • Former Chief of Staff at Basecamp Research and COO at Yema, now building something new. Currently serves as a Trustee at Code First Girls.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Bala Selvam (Kailua)

  • CTO at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command focused on scaling next-generation national security technology. Works on unblocking builders at the edge with emphasis on AI, quantum computing, and American dynamism.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Beto Moreira (Australia)

  • Ex-lead engineer at Leonardo.Ai (acquired by Canva). Previously co-founded Good Pair Days, an ML-powered wine startup, and grew it from 0 to $40M+ ARR. Now building Vinte.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Ebrahim Hussain (United States of America)

  • 19-year-old Stanford researcher and co-founder of Architect. Previously interned on Autopilot Hardware at Tesla and worked at Apple.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Geetha Manjunath (Bengaluru, India)

  • Computer scientist turned healthcare entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Niramai Health Analytix, an AI-powered healthcare company. TEDx speaker recognized by Forbes Top 20, also serves as Director at IIMB INNOVATIONS.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Greg Foster (New York metropolitan area)

  • Former Google and Airbnb engineer, now co-founder & CTO of Graphite. Currently building Cursor, an AI-powered code editor.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Jahanzeb Khan (Atlanta metropolitan area)

  • Georgia Tech alumnus and ex-MMA fighter turned serial entrepreneur. Founder/CEO of 4Earth since 2020 and Co-Founder/President of Twistient since 2024. Previously led a stealth startup as Managing Director.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Jasmin Kaur (United States of America)

  • Biochemist and former GSK researcher building bio machines at Tacit Machines to derisk clinical trial failures. Previously worked on ML for cell dynamics and bioimaging brain architecture, and served as director of pandemic challenge trials. Currently a Founder in Residence at Entrepreneurs First and FDA advisor.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• JX Mo (United States of America)

  • Ex-K-Scale Labs founding engineering team member, now co-founder of Gradient Robotics. Previously co-founded Zeroth Bot and served as Head of Product & Engineering.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Matt Suiche (Dubai)

  • Low-level developer since the early 2000s, previously Head of Detection Engineering at Magnet Forensics. Now building @onchaindb and doing Vibe Engineering at enidon.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Micah Hill-Smith (San Francisco)

  • McKinsey consultant turned co-founder and CEO of Artificial Analysis, an AI model comparison platform. Previously interned at Google.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Mohamed Habib (California)

  • Amazon engineer turned founder of Digger, an open source infrastructure automation tool. Previously part of Entrepreneur First’s LD15 cohort.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Sinan Kanatsiz (San Clemente)

  • Long-time CEO of KCOMM (since 1995) and founder/chairman of the Internet Marketing Association. Also founded the International Executive Council in 2017.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Tj Richardson (New York metropolitan area)

  • Data scientist at Advent International, previously investment banking analyst at Perella Weinberg Partners. Now founder of fundable.ai, building real-time venture news and deal sourcing tools for VCs.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Victoria Mei (New York)

  • Global brand marketer and internet personality with 600K+ followers, founder of Asian Creatives Club and Victoria Mei Studio. Building communities at the intersection of Web3 and AI.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Yash Rathod (India)

  • Computer science student at University of Illinois turned consultant in strategy and operations. Previously worked in the founder’s office at ImpactGuru and now focused on growth at Kirana Club. Co-founder of Origin Bio.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

• Abhijay Rana (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Brex and founder of Nuntius (YC S25)

• Ali H. Çevik (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Google DeepMind leading the Gemini API product and is a Y Combinator alum

• Aryan S. (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Metis and former Partner at Dorm Room Fund

• Benedict Dohmen (Twitter, LinkedIn) - DualEntry and previously co-founded Benitago

• Connor Loi (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Replicas and previously worked as a Software Engineer Intern at Helicone and Cohere

• Dan Piemont (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Long Wall and previously co-founded ABL Space Systems

• Kush Bavaria (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Ornn and an Investor at Link Ventures

• Lukas Czinger (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Divergent and Founder and CEO of Czinger Vehicles

• Scott Breitenother (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Kilo Code and previously founded Brooklyn Data and co-founded LocallyOptimistic

• Tal Peretz (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Runlayer and Creator of Zapier MCP, serving as an AI Advisor at Ravenna and Quack AI

• Vincent Micheli (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Technical Staff at General Intuition, previously serving as a Research Scientist at Wayve

• Wayne Nelms (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Ornn and a former quantitative trader at Susquehanna International Group

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Early Stage Founders

• Alex Rigler (San Francisco)

  • Building Mindcraeft with Choochoo HQ.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Alex Shan (Stanford)

  • Researcher at Stanford AI Lab and former Research Lead at Juniper Networks, now co-founder and CEO of Judgment Labs, building open source agent behavior monitoring tools.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Andreas Hennie (Oslo, Norway)

  • Former Head of Design at Mittanbud Marketplaces and Senior Product Manager at Schibsted SMB, now founder of a stealth startup. Previously founded Lets.dev and describes himself as an “agentic coder.”

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Anoop Mehendale (McLean)

  • Health tech and enterprise AI entrepreneur with multiple exits and healthcare executive experience across payers, providers, and pharma. Currently co-founder at Opsflow.sh and founder of Guident AI.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Aymeric Beaumet (Paris, France)

  • Lead Platform Engineer at REKKI turned co-founder and CTO of Interface, building Beside - an AI that takes action on conversations across iOS, macOS, and Android.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Eric Richmond (Canada)

  • Lawyer turned operator, currently General Counsel & Head of Business Development at Shakepay. Co-founder of Tetra Trust Company and board member at FRNT Financial.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Evan Feinberg (Stanford)

  • Applied Physics grad from Yale who developed deep learning methods for drug discovery at Stanford’s Pande Lab. Former deep learning consultant at Merck, now founder and CEO of Genesis Therapeutics, applying AI to molecular discovery.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Gavin Leech (United Kingdom)

  • Fellow at Cosmos Institute and co-founder of Arb Research, a consultancy focused on research. Previously a Fellow at Foresight Institute.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Henry Gasztowtt (San Francisco)

  • Former quantitative developer at BlackRock and Goldman Sachs intern, now co-founder of a stealth startup.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn
    
    

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Early Stage Founders

Ana Ediberidze (Tbilisi, Georgia)

Former law student turned digital marketer, now building a social app. Previously worked as Marketing Manager at Pyme and co-founded CandiKandy.

Followed by @briannekimmel · Twitter / LinkedIn

Chinmay Pala (Chicago)

Early member at Möbius Industries, now founder and CEO of Odola Labs, developing synthetic blood substitutes. Also works on the investment team at Callapina Capital.

Followed by @turnernovak · Twitter / LinkedIn

Chris Turlica (Miami)

Founder and CEO of MaintainX, a maintenance and operations management platform. Previously an investor at Ditto, a member of the Forbes Technology Council, and currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at DTCP Capital.

Followed by @anandc, @pejmannozad · Twitter / LinkedIn

Oliver Åstrand (Stockholm, Sweden)

Software engineer turned team lead at Depict (fashion merchandising app), now co-founder & CTO of Tandem Health.

Followed by @ilyamkin · Twitter / LinkedIn

Sharan Jhangiani (New York)

Founder of OnePager, automating portfolio support for VCs. Previously led go-to-market engineering for AI agents at Yoodli and currently serves as a venture scout at Madrona.

Followed by @davemcclure · Twitter / LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

• Max Brenner (Twitter, LinkedIn) — Coverage; previously at Compound. Followed by @pitdesi

• Yuly Djaparidze (Twitter, LinkedIn) — Azuro Capital; Investment Director at ABV Investments. Followed by @aashaysanghvi_

Investors Followed

• Avery Watkins (Twitter, LinkedIn) — followed by @caseyaylward

• Barr Yaron (Twitter, LinkedIn) — followed by @auchenberg, @oanaolt

• Fabrizio Serafini (Twitter, LinkedIn) — followed by @illscience

• Gaby Lorenzi (Twitter, LinkedIn) — followed by @bschech

• Michel A. Del Buono (Twitter, LinkedIn) — followed by @davemcclure, @howardlindzon, @ianrountree

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Notes

• We curate interesting people that have some signals that they might be interesting founders either now or in the future. They are not guaranteed to be currently founding or interested in investment.

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Early Stage Founders

• Alex Shan (Stanford)

  • Researcher at Stanford AI Lab and former Research Lead at Juniper Networks, now co-founder and CEO of Judgment Labs, building open source agent behavior monitoring tools.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Andrew McKinzie (New York)

  • Investor at Acrew Capital focusing on applied AI/ML, fintech, and enterprise SaaS. Former fellow at Perplexity and now co-founder of Assembli AI.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Axel Backlund (San Francisco)

  • Former data engineer at McKinsey & Company, now co-founder of Andon Labs, whose AI runs a store in San Francisco.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

• Joan Cabezas (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Wefunder and Co-Founder at Cifrato, a Y Combinator W25 company

• Lucas Crupi (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Loombotic (YC F24), building a wire harness factory, and previously worked on battery and connectors for the Cybertruck at Tesla
  

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• We curate interesting people that have some signals that they might be interesting founders either now or in the future. They are not guaranteed to be currently founding or interested in investment.

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Early Stage Founders

• Nils Cremer (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

  • Computer Science student and software engineer who worked at JetBrains and QuantCo before co-founding Tendrils Compute, a chip company.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• William Zhang (San Francisco)

  • UT computer science dropout and Neo scholar working as a line cook while building Nebula on the side. Previously worked as a software engineer at Amazon.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

• Bolun Li (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Vamo and previously founded Zogo, which he sold for $36 million at age 22

• Gabriele Volpato (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Università degli Studi di Padova and founder of a startup

• Kabir Nagrecha (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Tessera Labs and holds a PhD from UCSD

• Luciano Arango (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Flex and previously co-founded and served as CEO at Maza

• York Yang (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Dyna Robotics and former Principal Research Engineer at Instacart

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Early Stage Founders

• Carwan R. (Stockholm, Sweden)

  • Founder & CEO of Vashly, an AI agent for talent discovery that aligns with team culture. Previously founded Genvalues, also in the sourcing/recruiting space.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Bihan Mahadewa (Palo Alto)

  • Fellow at ODF and Founders, Inc. Co-founder of madvision, working on something in the vision/AI space from Palo Alto.

  • LinkedIn

• Danny Denenberg (Omaha)

  • Harvard student and co-founder of a stealth AI startup. Previously interned at Palantir Technologies and performs with the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

  • LinkedIn

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Early Stage Founders

• Andrawes Bahou (California)

  • CPU engineer at ARM to AI ASIC chip researcher at ETH Zurich to ML engineer for options pricing at UBS. Co-founded Universe Energy as CTO, then worked on AI compute infrastructure at Meta. Now CEO of Compute Desk, focused on financial infrastructure/analytics.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Holly Peck (New York)

  • Previously co-founder of Bytez and the founding team at The Sanctuary AI. Currently working on a stealth robotics startup. Focus on humanoids, embodied agents, and AI research.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Juan Ebrath (San Francisco)

  • Thiel Fellow and repeat founder working on engineering self-organization in living matter. Previously founded Macondo, which was acquired by Bricksave.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

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Early Stage Founders

• Dolev Algam (San Francisco)

  • AI infrastructure founder currently building in stealth. Previously worked on AI agents at scale at Ipsos and built the first zero-latency AI compute platform for the Israeli Defense Forces.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Abdellatif Abdelfattah (Oslo, Norway)

  • Co-founder of Agentset. Previously co-founded Tarteel AI, an AI-powered Quran memorization app.

  • LinkedIn

• Benjamin Wong (Brooklyn)

  • Stanford GSB and Vanderbilt alum who previously worked at D. E. Shaw and Mercor. Currently building at a stealth startup while also doing ML engineering at Elysian and angel investing.

  • LinkedIn

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Early Stage Founders

• Ashu Duggal (United States)

  • Quant trader turned CEO who founded and ran Aventus Technologies for 4 years before joining AlphaSense in growth strategy. Now co-founder of PillPilot working on robotic surgery applications.

  • LinkedIn

• Edward Vernon (United Kingdom)

  • Repeat founder who previously built and sold Flexbike. Former Product Manager at Teya, now co-founder & CEO of Kulu, an AI video calls platform for customer onboarding. Backed by Antler & Redbus Ventures.

  • LinkedIn

• Geoffrey Tisserand (Miami)

  • VP of Engineering at Payscale, previously co-founded Agora. Now co-founding a stealth startup as CTO.

  • LinkedIn

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Early Stage Founders

• Aditya Singh (New York)

  • Product manager at Ramp (corporate cards and expense management) after starting in business operations. Previously at Evercore investment bank. Currently building something new in stealth mode.

  • LinkedIn

• Alex Sergeev (California)

  • YC alum and co-founder of ngrow.ai, now working on a new stealth startup. Previously handled strategy and operations at Aurora First.

  • LinkedIn

• Chao Cao (Menlo Park)

  • Roboticist and co-founder & CEO at a stealth startup. Previously research scientist at RAI Institute and research intern at The AI Institute.

  • LinkedIn

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People

• Alex Reinhart (New York)

  • MIT grad and former investor at Pillar VC, now serving on the MIT Alumni Association board while building a stealth startup.

  • LinkedIn

• Aurora Feng (Stanford)

  • Stanford student building at a stealth robotics startup. Previously founding head of North America at LimX Dynamics and lab manager at Stanford’s Management Science & Engineering department.

  • LinkedIn

• Ayush Verma (San Francisco)

  • UC Berkeley alum and former Coinbase engineer now building something new as a founder. Previously co-founded a stealth startup.

  • LinkedIn

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People

• Andrew Hoskins (California)

  • Ex-YC founder (Upfront, W23) and former Senior Software Engineer at Affirm, now working in engineering at Block.

  • LinkedIn

• Andrew Kinzer (Seattle)

  • Co-founder and VP of Market Strategy at Outreach, then founded Tomorrow. Now working on a stealth hardware + AI + manufacturing startup.

  • LinkedIn

• Anil Karmel (Seattle)

  • 3x security AI founder currently building something new in stealth mode. Strategic advisor to multiple companies including GLACIS Technologies and Symbiosis.io.

  • LinkedIn

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Early Stage Founders

• Aamir Rashid (Brooklyn)

  • Ex-Palantir engineer (Forward Deployed Engineer to Engineering Team Lead) now co-founding a stealth startup as CTO.

  • LinkedIn

• Aryan Ranjan (United Kingdom)

  • Oxford Maths MSc and Columbia grad (Maths-Stats & Economics) who worked as a quant at Citi and the Federal Reserve. Now co-founder of Baraza, building AI word models and decision intelligence infrastructure while also working as a quant analyst at Oxford Alpha Fund.

  • LinkedIn

• Celia Gazepi (San Francisco)

  • Yale Math and Computer Science grad who worked as an ML & Software Engineer at Aurora for 3 years. Currently exploring at South Park Commons.

  • LinkedIn

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Early Stage Founders

• Mohan Zhang (Menlo Park)

  • Software engineer turned founder of Antigma Labs building self-contained agents. Previously worked at Amazon, Meta, and Mysten Labs, with experience founding a stealth startup. Likely has some initial funding.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Alex Munk (San Francisco)

  • Co-founder of Dashbase (acquired by Cisco) who then became Sr. Director of Engineering at Cisco. Now co-founder & CEO of Something New.

  • LinkedIn

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Early Stage Founders

• Henry Gasztowtt (London)

  • Former quantitative developer at BlackRock and Goldman Sachs intern, now co-founder of a stealth startup.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Micael Marques (Brazil)

  • Founder & CEO of AraraHQ, building messaging infrastructure. Currently participating in YC Startup School.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Nick Balestra-Foster (Seattle)

  • Engineering leader turned founder of Couch Labs, an AI companion for the visually impaired. Previously Director of Engineering at OP Labs and software engineer at Meta, with earlier experience at Cloudflare and OpenTable.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

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