Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

(0162) Ex-Amazon, startup labs, and ex-OpenAI

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Feb 20, 2026
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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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