Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

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Apr 01, 2026
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Early Stage Founders

  • Henry Gasztowtt (London)

    • Former quantitative developer at BlackRock and Goldman Sachs intern, now co-founder of a stealth startup.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

  • Micael Marques (Brazil)

    • Founder & CEO of AraraHQ, building messaging infrastructure. Currently participating in YC Startup School.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

  • Nick Balestra-Foster (Seattle)

    • Engineering leader turned founder of Couch Labs, an AI companion for the visually impaired. Previously Director of Engineering at OP Labs and software engineer at Meta, with earlier experience at Cloudflare and OpenTable.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

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