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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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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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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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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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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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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