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Arcee AI’s co-founder & CTO and Head of AI Engineering, Thatch’s early engineer and platforms GTM lead, plus Adaptive’s founding Head of Product & Strategy building again.
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Polymarket’s Head of Protocol, US President, markets and infrastructure leads, plus early engineers, acquired founders, and National Chess Masters building across prediction markets, crypto and AI.
Sep 7, 2026
Mach’s founding engineers, first manufacturing & supply chain leader, VP Engineering and integrated systems head spinning out to build across defense, aerospace, subsea robotics and consumer hardware.
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Harvey’s founding AI engineering leader, VP Engineering, Head of Security and acquired Mirage founders, plus early product, design and research talent building again.
Sep 6, 2026
Cognition’s engineers and researchers, Clay’s 1st and 5th employees, Wonderful’s former GM & Lokalise founder, and Unacademy’s co-founder & CTO starting new
Sep 5, 2026
Cognition’s engineers, researchers and deployed AI talent spinning out, including repeat founders, xAI MTS alumni, and early builders from Windsurf, DeepMind, Kalshi and Fizz.
Sep 3, 2026
Unacademy’s co-founder & CTO and early technical talent, alongside Crusoe’s VP Engineering, cloud infrastructure director and distributed computing engineers building new AI infrastructure companies.
Sep 2, 2026
Aranya co-founder, HiddenLayer founding engineer, and Wonderful’s former Baltic GM, Argentina & Chile CTO, and Palantir-trained CTO Office leader building again.
Aug 30, 2026
Clay’s 1st and 5th employees, 1st marketing hire, early growth and engineering leaders spinning out to build across AI, fintech, healthcare, and physical sciences.
