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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. 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.
Eric Appel in SF (Stealth)
Role: 1st Mobile Eng & Principal iOS Engineer @ Ramp (2.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Lead iOS Engineer @ Rogo, Lead iOS Engineer @ Rox ($50M from Sequoia, General Catalyst and GV), Staff iOS Engineer @ Robinhood
Description: Stealth "consumer AI" since 3/26
Jaeyou Park in Canada (Founder @ Pod)
Role: Product Ops @ Ramp (3 yrs)
Other Experience: Founding Product Lead @ Buyer (acquired by Ramp, 2021, its first acquisition), Product Marketing @ Redbrick
Description: "Expert procurement without the full-time commitment."
Yunyu Lin in New York City (Founder @ Scope Health) - Series A Lead
Role: Head of Applied AI @ Ramp (2.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Co-Founder, CEO @ Cohere.io (acquired by Ramp, 2023)
Description: "Scope helps health systems expand access to care by getting every patient to the right provider, at the right time"
Funding: $7.5M seed led by General Catalyst, June 2025
Luke Zeller in New York City (Founder @ Scope Health) - Series A Lead
Role: Staff Software Engineer @ Ramp (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Product & Engineering @ Pallet, Engineer @ Cohere
Description: "Scope helps health systems expand access to care by getting every patient to the right provider, at the right time"
Funding: $7.5M seed led by General Catalyst, June 2025
Yang Yan in United States (Potential Founder)
Role: Software Engineer, Risk @ Ramp (1 yr)
Other Experience: ML Researcher @ Anthropic, Product Manager @ Nuvo
Description: Left Anthropic on 2/25
Robert Murray in New York City (Founder @ Quovy) - Series A Lead
Role: Growth, P2P & AP Automation @ Ramp (1 yr)
Other Experience: Enterprise Account Executive, Digital Native Businesses @ Stripe
Description: "Specialty insurance is one of the most document-intensive businesses on earth. Submissions, loss runs..."
Funding: "Backed by Liquid2 Ventures, BoxGroup, Valkyrie, and executives from leading specialty carriers." No round size is public
Patrick Cui in New York City (Founder @ Doorman) - Series A Lead
Role: Product Designer @ Ramp (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Integral, Neo Scholar Finalist @ Neo, Product Designer @ GitHub
Description: "Eliminating cell phone distraction in every classroom"
Funding: Seed from Reach Capital, amount not disclosed
Vinai Rachakonda in New York City (Founder @ Third Space) - Series A Lead
Role: Senior Software Engineer @ Ramp (3 yrs)
Other Experience: Member @ South Park Commons
Description: "The AI-native insurance broker built to protect New York City's bars, venues, and clubs."
Funding: Seed, August 2026, from Better Tomorrow Ventures, a16z Speedrun, Max Ventures, Dorm Room Fund, Gilgamesh Ventures and Kadan Capital. Amount not disclosed
CJ Enright in New York City (Stealth)
Role: Staff Software Engineer @ Ramp (2 yrs)
Other Experience: CTO & Founding Engineer @ July, Software Engineer @ Apple
Description: Stealth since 3/26
Max Minakov in SF (Founder @ Snowman)
Role: Growth @ Ramp (1 yr)
Other Experience: Founder @ Nivoso (autonomous snow-clearing robot, won the 2023 Minnesota Cup), General Partner @ Atland Ventures
Description: "Outbound sales agency for startups. Book a call"
Jun Isaji in Miami Beach (Potential Founder)
Role: Director, Cloud Infrastructure @ Ramp (4 yrs)
Other Experience: Staff Software Engineer @ Affirm, Software Development Engineer @ AWS
Description: Left Ramp 5/24 with no updates
Maxim Enis in SF (Founder @ Habitat)
Role: Software Engineer @ Ramp (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Algorithm Engineer Intern @ Hudson River Trading
Description: "So Habitat is building the first autonomous firm."
Kabir Oberai in Toronto (Stealth)
Role: Senior Software Engineer @ Ramp (3.5 yrs)
Other Experience: iOS Lead @ Automattic, iOS Developer @ Texts
Description: "Building the next generation stack for mobile app development."
Jeremy Li in Waterloo (Stealth)
Role: Software Engineer @ Ramp (2 yrs)
Other Experience: Senior Software Engineer @ Google, Software Engineer @ Docusign, Engineer @ Faire
Description: Stealth since 2025
Glenn Ren in United States (Stealth)
Role: Software Engineer @ Ramp (1.5 yrs)
Other Experience: University of Maryland
Description: "Building something new"
