Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

(0160) Ex-Palantir, Airbnb, Instagram & Visa founders

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Feb 13, 2026
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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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