(0186) Ex-BlackRock Quant, a Counter-Drone Startup & a Magnet Launched to Space

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Early Stage Founders

• Alex Rigler (San Francisco)

  • Building Mindcraeft with Choochoo HQ.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• 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

• Andreas Hennie (Oslo, Norway)

  • Former Head of Design at Mittanbud Marketplaces and Senior Product Manager at Schibsted SMB, now founder of a stealth startup. Previously founded Lets.dev and describes himself as an “agentic coder.”

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Anoop Mehendale (McLean)

  • Health tech and enterprise AI entrepreneur with multiple exits and healthcare executive experience across payers, providers, and pharma. Currently co-founder at Opsflow.sh and founder of Guident AI.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Aymeric Beaumet (Paris, France)

  • Lead Platform Engineer at REKKI turned co-founder and CTO of Interface, building Beside - an AI that takes action on conversations across iOS, macOS, and Android.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Eric Richmond (Canada)

  • Lawyer turned operator, currently General Counsel & Head of Business Development at Shakepay. Co-founder of Tetra Trust Company and board member at FRNT Financial.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Evan Feinberg (Stanford)

  • Applied Physics grad from Yale who developed deep learning methods for drug discovery at Stanford’s Pande Lab. Former deep learning consultant at Merck, now founder and CEO of Genesis Therapeutics, applying AI to molecular discovery.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Gavin Leech (United Kingdom)

  • Fellow at Cosmos Institute and co-founder of Arb Research, a consultancy focused on research. Previously a Fellow at Foresight Institute.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Henry Gasztowtt (San Francisco)

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

  • Twitter / LinkedIn