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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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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

• 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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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

• 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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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

• 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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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

• 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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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

• 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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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

• 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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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

• Juan Ebrath (San Francisco)

  • Thiel Fellow and repeat founder working on biotech in stealth. Previously founded Macondo, which was acquired by Bricksave.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Abhipriti Sanjana V (New York)

  • Strategy & Ops at Arc and former Senior Investment Analyst at Next Legacy Partners. Columbia University and London Business School grad now founding a stealth company.

  • LinkedIn

• Jonah Salita (Los Angeles)

  • Head of Product at Superpower, previously founded Vasco Creative which he ran for 4 years. Now working on a new stealth startup.

  • 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.

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

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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.

People

• Bella Cao (California)

  • Serial founder currently building an AI startup in stealth mode. Previously founded Powermix at Naivea and participated in All Raise’s Female Founder Bootcamp.

  • LinkedIn

• Chi LI (Menlo Park)

  • Software Engineer at Meta for 5 years (including an internship), now co-founder of a stealth AI startup.

  • LinkedIn

• Dylan Bourgeois (Brooklyn)

  • Senior Software Engineer at Robust.AI turned co-founder and Chief Architect at Claryo, Inc. Now founding a new stealth startup focused on AI.

  • 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

• Sharan Jhangiani (New York)

  • Repeat founder, currently building Cura to help VCs keep tabs on their portfolio companies. Also serving as a Venture Scout at Madrona.

  • LinkedIn

• Avnish Sachar (Cambridge)

  • Ex-Amazon Robotics engineer (motion planning & perception) now founding a stealth startup in advanced manufacturing.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Garrison Snelling (Alabama)

  • Solutions engineer at LocalStack and team lead at StackBlitz, now founder of ComputeSDK, creating sandboxes for agents.

  • 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

• Cal Lavicka (New York)

  • Staff Software Engineer at Bubble turned CTO and Co-Founder of Assert Labs.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• George Nychis (Cambridge)

  • PhD from Carnegie Mellon, co-founder and CTO of Workfabric AI. Previously co-founded Soroco where he served as VP of Engineering and later VP of Architecture for over a decade.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Soumya Pasumarthy (California)

  • MIT & IIT alumna who founded Visionery (edtech startup) and previously led product and growth at Lessonpal. Currently Senior Product Manager at Branching Minds.

  • 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

• 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 to help do field sales with AI.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Pablo Perez De Angelis (New York)

  • Co-founder & CTO of BuyFlow.AI, helping save money on procurement with AI. Previously co-founded tuquejasuma as CTO. Background in NLP and public speaking.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Humphrey Hu (Sunnyvale)

  • Robotics engineer with experience at Apple and Anki, now co-founder and CEO of a stealth robotics 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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Early Stage Founders

• Illiana Redding (San Francisco)

  • 2× founder, 3× dropout currently co-founding Derci, working on next-gen death care infrastructure. Studies business & cybersecurity at Georgetown while serving as strategic advisor at Plurigrid and executive administrator at Rose On Palms.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Matt Baker (San Francisco)

  • Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb and Instagram, now founder of Synthetic Lab which makes it easier to run open source AI.

  • 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.

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

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Early Stage Founders

• Alex Rossie (San Mateo)

  • Growth engineer at Opendoor turned co-founder of Closin.ai, building revenue intelligence. Previously co-founded Holis as CTO.

  • LinkedIn

• Alexandra Journeau (London)

  • Investment Partner at StudAngels and Marketing Advisor at Thermosphr, now building something new in stealth mode.

  • LinkedIn

• Chetan Kapoor (Seattle)

  • Executive product and business leader with experience in AI and cloud services. Has built organizations, scaled multi-billion dollar businesses, supported a $50B IPO, and led M&A activities.

  • LinkedIn

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