(0192) Ex-Palantir, SIG quants, and Unit 8200 alumni + 4 founders in stealth

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Early Stage Founders

• Andrew McKinzie (San Francisco)

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

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Antoine Marcel (Paris, France)

  • Serial founder currently building a stealth startup focused on hyperspecialized speech-to-text technology that outperforms existing providers. Previously founded LATICE.AI and The Incentive.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Ben Shih (Boston)

  • PhD in tactile sensing and dexterous manipulation, previously Senior Robotics Engineer at Symbotic and Creator. Currently affiliated with Princeton NLP and formerly at Meta. Now co-founder of a stealth startup.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Danny Rosett (Greater Los Angeles)

  • Media and entertainment consultant with experience as COO at Overture Films and interim CFO at Hammer Museum. Now founder of a stealth startup developing treatments for autoimmune and neuroimmune conditions including POTS, long COVID, and CFS.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• David Zhao (United States of America)

  • Stanford CS grad turned Google PM, now co-founder of Pika, building the front office for home services.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Jonty Corrin (United Kingdom)

  • Investor focused on data, compute, health, and bio sectors. Currently angel investing and building Future Bio. Fellow at Next Chapter and investor at Ananda Impact Ventures.

  • 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

• Vignesh Rajendran (New York)

  • Former investor at GSV Ventures turned product leader at LILT AI, now co-founder of a stealth startup.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

• Aryan Shah (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Metis and former Partner at Dorm Room Fund

• Jason Gross (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Theorem and former Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Justin Waugh (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Approximate Labs and former Chief Scientist at Unsupervised

• Moshe Shalev (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Decart AI and previously served as a Project Manager at Israeli Military Intelligence - Unit 8200

• Sidharth Menon (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Carson AI (YC W26) and former Tech Lead at Palantir Technologies

• Wayne Nelms (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Ornn and a former quantitative trader at Susquehanna International Group

Investors Followed

• Ashley Jepson (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Caio Bolognesi (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Chelsea Zou (Twitter, LinkedIn)