Today’s Top Talent Pools
Kalshi raised a $1B Series G on 28 October at $40B post-money, co-led by Sequoia and Wellington Management, and earlier reports had the round at $750M, so it came in larger.
Dhruvik P. in SF (Stealth)
Role: 1st FTE & Engineering + Product @ Kalshi (3 yrs)
Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Mithril ($80M co-led by Sequoia and Lightspeed at a reported $350M)
Description: Stealth since 9/25
Ben Rapport in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: Founding Engineer @ Kalshi (2 yrs)
Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Stealth Startup, Quant @ Citi, Researcher @ University of Chicago, Quant @ U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Description: Left stealth co on 4/26
Daniel Chiu in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: Product & Engineering @ Kalshi (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Product & Engineering @ Cognition, Product & Engineering @ Watershed, Trading Intern @ Jane Street, Software Engineer @ Figma, Software Engineer @ Quora
Description: Transition from Product —> Advisor @ Cognition on 12/25
Rhea S. in United States (Potential Founder)
Role: Chief Of Staff @ Kalshi (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Growth Lead @ Unify, Software Engineer @ Mach Industries, Investment Engineer @ Bridgewater Associates
Description: Left Unify on 11/25
Daniel Sun in SF (Founder @ Breez Labs)
Role: Software Engineer @ Kalshi (1 yr)
Other Experience: Co-Founder @ MathDash, Quantitative Trader @ Jane Street, Software Engineer Intern @ Scale AI
Description: "Auditable automation for back office finance”
Funding: YC W24.
David Xu in SF (Stealth)
Role: Growth + Engineering @ Kalshi (2 yrs)
Other Experience: Deployed Engineer @ LangChain
Description: Stealth since 1/25
Dhruv K. in SF (Stealth)
Role: Market Maker @ Kalshi (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Quantitative Research and Trading @ Arch Capital, Data Science @ Hudson River Trading
Description: "compute and power trading.”
Yash Ramchandani in SF (Stealth)
Role: Product / Engineering @ Kalshi (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Product Manager @ Google, Engineering @ Relay
Description: Stealth since 8/24
Funding: YC-backed
Philip S. in New York City (Stealth)
Role: Data Engineer, Lead @ Kalshi (1 yr)
Other Experience: Member of Technical Staff @ Endex, Data Engineer @ Robinhood, Data Scientist @ Robinhood
Description: Stealth AI since 11/25
Ojima A. in New York City (Potential Founder)
Role: Software Engineer @ Kalshi (1 yr)
Other Experience: SWE @ Casap, SWE @ Viam, SWE @ MongoDB
Description: Left Kalshi in 10/26
Prabhath K. in New York City (Potential Founder)
Role: Product Engineer @ Kalshi (2.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Software Engineer @ Citadel, Software Engineer @ Apple
Description: Left Citadel on 9/25
Jaron Zhou in New York City (Potential Founder)
Role: Head of Politics @ Kalshi (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Monetization Strategy and Operations @ TikTok, Associate Consultant @ Bain & Company
Description: Left Kalshi on 5/26
