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Oct 20, 2026
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Ramp’s 1st mobile engineer, Head of Applied AI, cloud infrastructure director, and early product and engineering talent spinning out — including founders of Cohere.io and Buyer, both acquired by Ramp.
Oct 19, 2026
Ramp’s engineering directors, staff engineers, enterprise platform and business operations leaders spinning out, alongside repeat founders building AI agents, developer tools, and YC-backed startups.
Oct 18, 2026
Ramp’s founding engineer, 16th and 70th employees, engineering directors, founding Applied AI talent, and repeat founders spinning out across AI, fintech, and life sciences.
Oct 15, 2026
Reflection AI’s founding team, research leader, COO and Chief of Staff, alongside Character.AI’s Chief Architect, multimodal researcher and founding talent, including an OpenAI alum shared by both companies.
Oct 14, 2026
Albert Invent’s co-founder & CTO, Stuut’s former CTO, Abby Care’s founding engineer and engineering director, plus early technical talent from Moondream, Dream Labs and OuterSignal spinning out.
Oct 13, 2026
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Oct 12, 2026
Character.AI’s founding team, Chief Architect, Head of Research and Head of Product Engineering, alongside stealth and repeat founders.
Oct 11, 2026
Reflection AI’s former COO (ex-Wiz CSO), Chief of Staff, and Stanford/DeepMind research leader spinning out, alongside early technical talent from a16z-backed Preference Model.
Oct 8, 2026
Isomorphic Labs’ former CTO and founding research engineer, Valon’s Co-Founder & CPO and CTO, Arena’s OpenAI and Anthropic alumni, Nous Research founding member, and Spiko’s former CTO building again.