Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

(0181) "Stealth founders from Meta, Saronic, and an MD-PhD at ETH

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Early Stage Founders

  • Andrawes Bahou (California)

    • CPU engineer at ARM to AI ASIC chip researcher at ETH Zurich to ML engineer for options pricing at UBS. Co-founded Universe Energy as CTO, then worked on AI compute infrastructure at Meta. Now CEO of Compute Desk, focused on financial infrastructure/analytics.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

  • Holly Peck (New York)

    • Previously co-founder of Bytez and the founding team at The Sanctuary AI. Currently working on a stealth robotics startup. Focus on humanoids, embodied agents, and AI research.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

  • Juan Ebrath (San Francisco)

    • Thiel Fellow and repeat founder working on engineering self-organization in living matter. Previously founded Macondo, which was acquired by Bricksave.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

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