Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

(0175) Ex-Palantir, Microsoft Research & Robotics PhD in Stealth

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Apr 07, 2026
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Early Stage Founders

  • Aamir Rashid (Brooklyn)

    • Ex-Palantir engineer (Forward Deployed Engineer to Engineering Team Lead) now co-founding a stealth startup as CTO.

    • LinkedIn

  • Aryan Ranjan (United Kingdom)

    • Oxford Maths MSc and Columbia grad (Maths-Stats & Economics) who worked as a quant at Citi and the Federal Reserve. Now co-founder of Baraza, building AI word models and decision intelligence infrastructure while also working as a quant analyst at Oxford Alpha Fund.

    • LinkedIn

  • Celia Gazepi (San Francisco)

    • Yale Math and Computer Science grad who worked as an ML & Software Engineer at Aurora for 3 years. Currently exploring at South Park Commons.

    • LinkedIn

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