Today’s Top Talent Pools
Ramp, the spend management fintech, has raised about $1.85B at roughly a $60B pre-money valuation, co-led by Thrive Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group with Founders Fund participating, Bloomberg reported on 12 October. Ramp had not confirmed the round at the time of reporting. If it holds, it is the third markup inside twelve months: $300M at $32B in November 2025, $750M at $44B in June 2026, and now $60B, which is nearly a doubling since June. Existing backers include Lightspeed Venture Partners, D1 Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Robinhood Ventures, Stripes, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, T. Rowe Price and ICONIQ.
Pablo Meier in SF (Stealth)
Role: Founding Engineer, Engineering Director @ Ramp (4.5 yrs)
Other Experience: SWE (T6) @ Lyft, Engineering Manager @ ClassPass
Description: "it's ya boi, cooking things up"
Camden Ko in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: Employee #70 & Software Engineer @ Ramp (3 yrs)
Other Experience: Co-Founder/CEO @ Stealth ($16M committed by GC Creation, capital returned), Head of Product @ Coframe, Trading Intern @ Susquehanna International Group
Will Ye in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: Sr SWE & Founding Member of Applied AI @ Ramp (2.5 yrs)
Other Experience: 1st Employee & SWE @ Cohere.io (acquired by Ramp, 2023), SWE @ AWS, Duke BS CS
Description: Left Ramp 2/26
Akash Wadawadigi in New York City (Potential Founder)
Role: FTE #16 & Director of Software Engineering @ Ramp (6 yrs)
Description: Left Ramp 8/26 with no updates
Shivam Patel in New York City (Stealth)
Role: Engineering @ Ramp (3 yrs)
Other Experience: Engineering & Research @ Polychain Capital, Engineering @ CaptivateIQ, Engineering @ Amazon Web Services
Description: "AI for life sciences"
Roland Shen in New York City (Stealth)
Role: Engineering @ Ramp (3 yrs)
Other Experience: Engineering @ U.S. Department of the Treasury, Engineering @ Coinbase, Engineering @ Fig (acquired by AWS, 2023), Engineering @ Microsoft
Description: Building a newco with Shivam Patel above
Haoyang Yu in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: Software Engineer @ Ramp (1 yr)
Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Cyclone (YC-backed dev tools), Software Engineer @ Stripe
Description: Left Ramp 2025 with no updates
Aryaman Gulati in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: Engineering & Product, Applied AI @ Ramp (1 yr)
Other Experience: Engineering & Product @ Microsoft AI, Product Growth & Data Science @ Meta
Description: Left Ramp 2026 with no updates
Max Lahey in New York City (Stealth)
Role: Director of Engineering @ Ramp (5 yrs)
Other Experience: Senior SWE @ Twitter, SWE @ Google, Cofounder @ Flipswitch (acquired by 180 South Solar), SWE @ Stripe
Description: Left Ramp 4/26, bio says "Building"
Daniel Jeng in New York City (Potential Founder)
Role: Staff Software Engineer @ Ramp (2 yrs)
Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Zingage ($12.5M seed led by Bessemer Venture Partners), Senior Front End Engineer @ Bilt Rewards, Senior Manager, Software Engineering @ Paribus
Description: Left Zingage on 3/26
Cyrus Roshan in New York City (Potential Founder)
Role: Staff Software Engineer @ Ramp (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Staff SWE @ Jam.dev, Senior SWE @ Tandem, Founding Engineer @ Deviceplane (YC W20, seed led by Accel), SWE @ Cloudflare
Description: Left Ramp on 4/26
Aaron Yodaiken in New York City (Potential Founder)
Role: Principal Software Engineer @ Ramp (3 yrs)
Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ NewCo, Member @ South Park Commons, Software Engineering Lead, Cloud @ Butterfly Network
Description: Left a stealth co on 7/26 that was "an AI native financial services incubation backed by a tier 1 VC with some friends from Ramp"
Aditya Singh in New York City (Stealth)
Role: Product Management @ Ramp (4.5 yrs)
Other Experience: IB Analyst @ Evercore, Strategy and Business Operations @ CloudKitchens
Description: Stealth since 5/26
Mason Zhang in SF (Stealth)
Role: Senior Software Engineer @ Ramp (1.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Member @ South Park Commons, Co-Founder @ Stealth healthcare agent co
Description: Left SPC and the stealth co on 10/26
Gyalpo Dongo Aguirre in SF (Stealth)
Role: Engineering @ Ramp (1 yr)
Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Entiendo (backed by Neo), Engineering @ Oracle, Fulbright Scholar @ US-UK Fulbright Commission
Description: Stealth since 1/26
Rohan Desai in SF (Stealth)
Role: Software Engineering @ Ramp (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Neo Scholar, Co-Founder @ Unveil, SWE @ Mercury
Description: "Building infrastructure to understand humans at scale”
