Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

(0184) Ex-Tesla Cybertruck Engineer, Stanford AI Researcher & an AI-Run Storefront

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May 14, 2026
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Early Stage Founders

  • Alex Shan (Stanford)

    • Researcher at Stanford AI Lab and former Research Lead at Juniper Networks, now co-founder and CEO of Judgment Labs, building open source agent behavior monitoring tools.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

  • Andrew McKinzie (New York)

    • Investor at Acrew Capital focusing on applied AI/ML, fintech, and enterprise SaaS. Former fellow at Perplexity and now co-founder of Assembli AI.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

  • Axel Backlund (San Francisco)

    • Former data engineer at McKinsey & Company, now co-founder of Andon Labs, whose AI runs a store in San Francisco.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

  • Joan Cabezas (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Wefunder and Co-Founder at Cifrato, a Y Combinator W25 company

  • Lucas Crupi (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Loombotic (YC F24), building a wire harness factory, and previously worked on battery and connectors for the Cybertruck at Tesla

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