(0191) Ex-Rippling, Ex-Tesla & a Rhodes Scholar Doctor in Stealth

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Early Stage Founders

• Andrei Serban (San Francisco)

  • Repeat founder and former Product Lead at Rippling. Previously founded and led Fuzzbuzz for 3 years, now building Console.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Daniel Salinas (San Francisco)

  • Former Product & Finance at Rappi, now CEO & Co-Founder of Remi and CEO & Founder of Actioners Residency. Repeat founder with 2 exits.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Jessie Dong (San Francisco)

  • Stanford CS student and co-founder & CEO of Airstitch. Previously worked at Tesla and Mithril Compute, currently doing research at Stanford AI Lab and serving on the investment team at Phoenix Rising focusing on AI infrastructure.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• John Fiorentino (New York)

  • Founder at Fio Companies, building consumer brands including Gravity Blanket (acquired), Moon Pod, Moon Pals, and Birthdate Candles. Also owns Jean’s NYC Restaurant.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Lane B. (Mountain View)

  • CS/Math student at Vanderbilt and Z Fellow, now co-founder of Acre Robotics working on computer vision for agriculture. Previously interned at Scale AI and worked as a research software engineer at Vanderbilt.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Mason Hensley (Richmond)

  • Former CTO at a life sciences unicorn, now founder of Gwaihir Robotics working on robotics supply chain solutions. Also serves as Managing Director at Texabama Labs and advisor at Geyser Data.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Mudith Jayasekara (San Francisco)

  • Medical doctor and Rhodes Scholar pursuing ML PhD at Oxford, co-founder of Parsed working on AI solutions for healthcare. Also co-founded Ethical Education, an educational organization.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Samarth Pratap Singh (Allahabad, India)

  • Undergraduate student at VIT studying full stack development with a focus on AI and ML. Co-founder and CTO of a startup, with previous experience at Google and Delphi.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Thomas Milton (Sheffield, United Kingdom)

  • Co-founder and CEO of Amodo Design, working on hardware development. Also serves on boards for Renaissance Philanthropy and Centre for British Progress.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

• Joshua Belofsky (Twitter, LinkedIn) - General Trajectory (YC W25) and was previously an Undergraduate Researcher at Caltech

• Richard Ou (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Doe and serves as a Board Advisor at Penn Engineering

• Stevie Graham (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Teller Inc, and was previously the first EU employee at Twilio

• Yansen Z. (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Technical Staff at OpenAI and Founder at Hippo Scribe

Investors Followed

• Akshay Mehra (Twitter, LinkedIn)