(0156) Caltech PhDs, Cloud VMs, and AI Agents

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Early Stage Founders

• Angela Gao (San Francisco)

  • PhD researcher at Caltech for 6 years with experience as a student researcher at Google, now co-founder and CTO of a stealth startup.

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• Dakshay Mehta (California)

  • Repeat founder building PantheonAI to create talking books (personalized voice agents). Previously co-founded MarketTap and Prime Indicators, an investment fund where he served as fund manager.

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• Mert Deveci (United Kingdom)

  • Former investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley, now founder of GodmodeHQ and currently building something new in stealth. Previously worked at FTI Global and Société Générale.

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