Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

(0147) Ex-Google, a16z, and Harvard Founders Building in Stealth

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Dec 31, 2025
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Early Stage Founders

  • David Mataciunas (London, United Kingdom)

    • CTO at AQ22 and Community AI Researcher at Cohere, now co-founding a stealth AI startup.

    • LinkedIn

  • Junzhe Shi (Berkeley)

    • PhD student at UC Berkeley and former Apple software engineer, now co-founder of a stealth startup. Currently an Innovation Fellow at Berkeley SkyDeck and Lead Guest Editor at MDPI.

    • LinkedIn

  • Robin Guo (Greater Los Angeles)

    • Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and founding team member of a16z speedrun, now working on a stealth startup.

    • LinkedIn

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