(0189) Ex-NVIDIA, Ex-JetBrains & a $950K/yr App with Zero Employees

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Early Stage Founders

• Ademi Adeniji (California)

  • PhD student at UC Berkeley AI Research, previously research intern at NVIDIA and research assistant at Stanford AI Lab. CEO & Co-Founder of Mecha, focusing on reinforcement learning and robot learning.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Caleb Winston (West Hollywood)

  • AI systems researcher at Stanford, currently director at a stealth startup.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Emily Yuan (California)

  • Co-founder and COO of Corgi, also co-founder of Basket Entertainment. Previously worked at Beagle.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• 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

• Ryan Thorpe (United Kingdom)

  • Ex-Revolut growth marketer who built 40 apps to 50M downloads. Now co-founder of Fload, running a $950K/yr app with zero employees using AI agents.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Soumyadeep Mukherjee 🏡 (Bengaluru, India)

  • IIT Kharagpur grad turned co-founder and CTO of Dashverse, working on AI, infrastructure, and robotics. Previously Associate Director of Product and Engineering at udaan.com and founding engineer at Morphle Labs.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

• Ali Ahmed (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Bread Labs and previously served as a Product Manager at GitHub working on Copilot

• Chintan Parikh (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Stealth (YC F25) and former VP Engineering at Secureframe

• Frank Hutter (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Prior Labs and Professor of Computer Science at University of Freiburg, specializing in tabular foundation models and AutoML

• Haakam Aujla (Twitter, LinkedIn) - AgentMail (YC S25) and former Quantitative Trader Intern at Optiver

Investors Followed

• Alan Markfeld, CIMA® (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Ben Grabiner (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Giovanni D’Antonio (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Kyle Getsiv (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Matan Roet (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Michael Robinson (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Nikita Andersson (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Palak Goel (Twitter, LinkedIn)