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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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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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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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Early Stage Founders

• Amit Kumar (Singapore)

  • Former Uber and Slice growth marketing executive, now co-founder of Grovio AI automating marketing.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Jason Hreha (Nashville)

  • Stanford neuroscience grad and former Global Head of Behavioral Science at Walmart, now founder and CEO of Persona, a talent-as-a-service company. Also serves as Senior Advisor at Edelman and works as an independent behavioral strategist.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Abhishek Jain (Menlo Park)

  • Ex-Google director (Product & Operations at Google Cloud, previously Global Business Development Lead for Search, Play & Fiber) turned co-founder of a stealth startup. Previously spent 17 years at Google after earlier experience at Amazon.

  • LinkedIn

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Early Stage Founders

• Andre Nakkurt (San Francisco)

  • Software and ML engineer currently on sabbatical. Previously worked on developer productivity at Scale AI and as a software engineer at Domino Data Lab.

  • LinkedIn

• Ivory Tang (United States)

  • Product and growth lead at Cartesia, now investor at Chemistry and co-founder of a stealth startup.

  • LinkedIn

• Abdullah Shareef (New York)

  • Ex-quant trader at Susquehanna International Group turned founder, now working on something new in stealth mode. Previously interned at SIG before joining full-time as a quantitative trader for several years.

  • 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

• Abhinay Reddy Bandela (San Francisco)

  • Data engineer at Farmers Insurance turned founder of Atheera, building agentic AI to automate inventory forecasting and reorder decisions.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Ardalan Javadi (San Francisco)

  • Former Head of GTM at KavAI and FP&A analyst at PPG, now co-founder of @thesecondpod and building a stealth startup.

  • 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

• Ameya Lambat (Boston)

  • Software engineer with experience at PayPal, Onshape, and Corsair, currently doing research at Arizona State University. Former professional rock climber now building something new in stealth mode.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Ben Cohen (Los Angeles)

  • Former Meta and Microsoft engineer turned MBA who’s now founder and CEO of TourScout, helping LLMs interact with the real world (has some initial funding). Previously served as VP at Cadenza Artists.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• David Hansen (United States)

  • Co-founder of a stealth startup, likely in the hardware manufacturing space for drones and robotics. Previously co-founded Weel, which he worked on for 6 years.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

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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

• Evan Seeyave (New York)

  • MIT Media Lab researcher turned research engineer at SecureBio, now founding a stealth startup in AI and biosecurity.

  • LinkedIn

• George Kitromelides (Santa Ana)

  • Aerospace engineer with 5+ years at Williams International, now Propulsion Performance Manager at Anduril, a defense technology company building autonomous systems.

  • LinkedIn

• Joshua Thomas (Cupertino)

  • UC Berkeley Data Science & Economics student, previously software engineer at DataStax and ML engineering intern at Zoho. Currently building at a stealth startup after a stint as Founder in Residence at Founders, Inc.

  • 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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Your portfolio is your best deal flow. Stop scrambling across six tools to keep up with it. Get started with Cura today.

Early Stage Founders

• Jack Friedson (New York)

  • Engineering Manager at Datadog turned founding engineer at Haize Labs, now working on something new as a founder.

  • LinkedIn

• Jacob Sheldon (Brooklyn)

  • Product Lead at Firstbase now working on a stealth startup.

  • LinkedIn

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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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Your portfolio is your best deal flow. Stop scrambling across six tools to keep up with it. Get started with Cura today.

Early Stage Founders

• Chris Keith (New York)

  • Founder and CEO of attain, building something that combines recruiting and helping agents do work. Previously founded HIREXE and worked as a fixer at Zorus.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Mika Sagindyk (San Francisco)

  • Former Growth lead at AWS turned co-founder of Tackle and now 2077 working on evals for agents. Previously spent time as Entrepreneur In Residence at Entrepreneur First.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Raul Ochoa (Madrid, Spain)

  • Head of Technology at CARTO turned co-founder of Tinybird, a real-time data platform. It isn’t clear if he’s looking to found a company, but definitely a notable person to watch.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

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