Today’s Talent Pools

Capital One Financial (NYSE: COF) agreed to acquire corporate spend fintech Brex for $5.15 billion in cash and stock.

  1. Henrique Dubugras in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Co-Founder @ Brex (8 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founder @ Pagar.me (exited in 2016; >$1.5B GMV)

    3. Description: Stealth fintech

    4. Twitter, [email protected]

  2. Nadav Lidor in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: GM - Banking & Israel @ Brex (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founder @ Weav (backed by Abstract, BoxGroup, SV Angel, YC W20 —> acquired by Brex), Oxford MA, Stanford CS

    3. Description: Stealth since 2024

    4. Twitter

  3. Jonathan Lima in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Founding Eng @ Brex (5.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: CTO @ Pagar.me (Brex Founder’s original startup; exited in 2016; >$1.5B GMV)

    3. Description: “Building AI infrastructure”

    4. Twitter, GH

  4. Swetha Revanur in Miami (Stealth)

    1. Role: 1st MLE @ Brex (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Team & Head of Product & Eng @ Hebbia, Stanford MS & BS

    3. Description: “Building the next human”

    4. Twitter

  5. Sherwood Callaway in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: FTE #70 & 3rd Infra Eng @ Brex (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Opkit (backed by YC S21, Mischief, Socially Financed, and Rex Salisbury —> acquired by 11x), FTE #30 & Tech Lead @ 11x

    3. Description: “We’re building developer tools”

Neynar, a three-year-old San Francisco startup focused on decentralized social media infrastructure, is acquiring Farcaster, a five-year-old Los Angeles startup that has developed an Ethereum-based decentralized social media protocol. Terms were not disclosed. The Block has more here.

  1. Dan Romero in US (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Co-Founder & CEO @ Farcaster (5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Early Employee & VP @ Coinbase, Consultant @ Bain

    3. Description: Working on something new post-acquisition

    4. Site, Twitter

  2. Varun Srinivasan in LA (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Co-Founder @ Farcaster (5.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Sr Director of Eng & Product @ Coinbase, PM @ Microsoft, CMU BS

    3. Description: Working on something new post-acquisition

    4. Site, Twitter

  3. Linda Xie in US (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Developer Ecosystem Lead @ Farcaster (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Bountycaster (acquired by Farcaster), Co-Founder & MD @ Scalar Capital, PM @ Coinbase

    3. Description: Left Farcaster post-acquistion. “I'm going to keep working on things I want to see exist in crypto and do my best to help it grow”

    4. Twitter

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

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. 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

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