Today’s Talent Pools

Rogo, an NYC-based maker of AI agents for dealmakers and investors, raised $75m in Series C funding at a $750m valuation, per Axios Pro. Sequoia Capital led, joined by JPMorgan, Thrive Capital, and Khosla Ventures. axios.link/45zA71E

  1. Matt Vickers in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of Product @ Rogo (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Director of PM @ Ramp, GM of Product @ Xero, Columbia MBA

    3. Description: “Working on something new”

    4. Twitter

  2. Joseph McCombs in South Bend (Stealth)

    1. Role: FTE #1 & Founding Eng @ Rogo (3.5 yrs)

    2. Description: Stealth since 5/25

  3. Nikolai Stakheiko in NYC (Founder @ HomeFig)

    1. Role: Founding Eng @ Rogo (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founder @ Stealth (acquired by Rogo), Co-Founder & CTO @ Model Reno (Bootstrapped to $1.6M)

    3. Description: “Kitchen design in 2 minutes”

Phia, a one-year-old New York startup that provides an AI shopping app that surfaces cheaper resale and alternative products while users browse, raised a $35 million Series A round led by Notable Capital, with Khosla Ventures as well as previous investor Kleiner Perkins also participating. TechCrunch has more here.

  1. Ali Paul in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: CTO @ Phia (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Tech Lead Manager @ Bilt Rewards, Sr SWE @ Meta FAIR, Brown BS

    3. Description: Stealth since 11/24

  2. Claire Oxner in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Founding Eng @ Phia (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Paradigm ($7M from GC, YC W24), Prod, Wharton

    3. Description: Left Paradigm on 7/24. Status is “Building”

    4. Twitter

Waabi, a Toronto-based developer of autonomous driving solutions, raised US$750 million in Series C funding led by insiders Khosla Ventures and G2 Venture Partners.

  1. Eyal Cohen in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of Hardware Eng @ Waabi (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CTO @ Spark AI ($7M from Primary Venture Partners, Compound —> acquired by John Deere), Director of Eng @ Uber ATG, Eng @ Otto, VP of Eng @ Pronto AI

    3. Description: Stealth robotics company since 6/25

  2. Lunjun Zhang in Toronto (Stealth)

    1. Role: Founding Team & Research Scientist @ Waabi (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: DeepMind Student Researcher, University of Toronto PhD & BS

    3. Description: Stealth since 10/25. “Working on Large Language Models.”

    4. Site, Twitter, [email protected]

  3. Kion Fallah in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Staff Research Scientist @ Waabi (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Georgia Tech PhD

    3. Description: “Building Autonomous Digital Agents”

    4. Site, GH

Harvey, the high-flying legal AI startup, has acquired Hexus -- a two-year-old startup that builds tools for creating product demos, videos, and guides -- as the company continues its aggressive expansion amid fierce competition in the legal tech market. TechCrunch has the skinny here.

  1. Shambhavi Mahajan in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Co-Founder & COO @ Hexus (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Product Designer @ Honey, Grad Research Assistant @ Georgia Tech

    3. Description: Left Hexus on 11/24 with no updates

Google DeepMind is acquiring key talent from Hume AI, an eight-year-old San Francisco startup that develops emotionally aware voice interfaces that can detect and respond to users’ moods. Terms were not disclosed. TechCrunch has more here.

  1. Dylan Ma in SF (Co-Founder @ Polymath)

    1. Role: Sr MLE @ Hume AI (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ AWS, Researcher & CS @ Berkeley

    3. Description: “Polymath is an applied research lab focused on increasing the reliability and autonomy of AI agents, in order to better serve people.”

    4. Funding: YC W26

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