Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

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Dec 19, 2025
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Early Stage Founders

  • Leor Mamane (United States)

    • CTO at Ocean Club Sportswear for 11 years, now founder of TipMate and working on a new stealth AdTech startup.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

  • Victoria Hu (Berkeley)

    • Berkeley grad and engineer at Twilio for 8 years, working on their IoT and frontend platform. Co-founded Axent Wear which achieved $20M+ in product sales. Now founder of Tied, helping connect people to other people using EQ infrastructure for AI agents.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

  • Varun Arora (New York)

    • Software engineer at Lime turned founding engineer at Capital, now building something new in stealth mode.

    • LinkedIn

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