Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

(0183) Ex-JetBrains, Ex-Amazon & a Line Cook Building in Stealth

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May 07, 2026
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Early Stage Founders

  • Nils Cremer (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

    • Computer Science student and software engineer who worked at JetBrains and QuantCo before co-founding Tendrils Compute, a chip company.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

  • William Zhang (San Francisco)

    • UT computer science dropout and Neo scholar working as a line cook while building Nebula on the side. Previously worked as a software engineer at Amazon.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

  • Bolun Li (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Vamo and previously founded Zogo, which he sold for $36 million at age 22

  • Gabriele Volpato (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Università degli Studi di Padova and founder of a startup

  • Kabir Nagrecha (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Tessera Labs and holds a PhD from UCSD

  • Luciano Arango (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Flex and previously co-founded and served as CEO at Maza

  • York Yang (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Dyna Robotics and former Principal Research Engineer at Instacart

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