Databricks raised more than $5b in Series L funding at a $134b valuation, much of which will be used for an employee tender. It also added around $2b in debt capacity.

  1. Clemens Mewald in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Director of PM, ML & DS @ Databricks (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: CEO @ Brain Co ($30M from Elad Gil), Head of Product @ Instabase, PM Lead of ML @ Google AI & Brain, MIT MBA

    3. Description: Left Brain Co on 1/26. “Something new”

  2. Rajkumar Sen in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Eng @ Databricks (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ Arcion Labs ($18M from Bessemer —> acquired by Databricks for $100M), Director of Eng @ MemSQL, Principal MTS @ Oracle

    3. Description: Left Databricks on 2/26. “Unemployed @ Freelance”

    4. Twitter

  3. Zongheng Yang in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: SWE Intern @ Databricks (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: PhD, Postdoc Researcher, and Lead for SkyPilot @ UC Berkeley (9.5K GH stars), SWE @ Google Brain

    3. Description: Stealth since 2024

    4. Site, Twitter

  4. Paul Oglivie in PA (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Eng Director of ML & Co-Author of Foundational MLflow papers @ Databricks (6 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Sr Eng Manager @ LinkedIn, CMU PhD & Research Assistant

    3. Description: Left Databricks on 8/23. “Putting Machine Learning into production is hard. I'm passionate about making it easier. I've worked on this problem at LinkedIn and Databricks.”

Bretton AI (fka Greenlite), a financial crime compliance startup, raised $75m in Series B funding. Sapphire Ventures led, joined by Greylock, Thomson Reuters Ventures, and Canvas Ventures. axios.link/4kCmWmT

  1. Alex Jin in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Co-Founder @ Bretton AI (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: 1st FTE & Product Lead @ Flixed, Founding Team @ Inch, Product & Eng @ Dropbox

    3. Description: “These days I'm taking a breather before my next act."

    4. Twitter, Site, GH, [email protected]

Harvey, a four-year-old San Francisco startup that provides AI software for lawyers to review documents and draft legal filings, is reportedly raising a $200 million round at an $11 billion valuation. In December, the company raised $160 million at an $8 billion valuation. The deal is purportedly being co-led by Sequoia and GIC. Forbes has more here.

  1. Sreerama Tripuramallu, Aman Kishore, Mayank Kishore in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Members of Technical Staff & Research Eng @ Harvey (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founders @ Mirage (backed by Sequoia → acquired by Harvey), NVIDIA Sr SWEs

    3. Description: Building something new

    4. Twitter 1, Twitter 2, Twitter 3; Site 1, Site 2; [email protected]

  2. Jatin Gupta in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: SWE Intern @ Harvey (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ Ainume (backed by Google & NVIDIA), Founding Eng @ Synthpop ($23M from Ansa), Greylock & KP Eng Fellow, UC Berkeley CS, Neo Scholar Finalist

    3. Description: Appears to be at Berkeley still

Monaco, a recently founded San Francisco startup that provides an AI-powered sales platform with human sales support, raised a $25 million Series A round led by Founders Fund, with Human Capital also pitching in. The company has raised a total of $35 million. TechCrunch has more here.

  1. Roshail Gerard in US (Stealth)

    1. Role: Co-Founder @ Monaco (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Principal Eng @ Indie, Stanford MS

    3. Description: “Building something in Robotics and AI”

Runway, an NYC-based AI video startup, raised $315m at a $5.3 valuation. General Atlantic led, joined by Nvidia, Adobe Ventures, and AMD Ventures. axios.link/4an2mlD

  1. Omer Bar Tal in NYC (Stealth) - Series A Lead

    1. Role: Research Lead @ Runway (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Scientist @ Pika

    3. Description: Stealth since 11/25

    4. Funding: “We’ve just closed a seed round with amazing top-tier investors”

    5. Twitter, Site, GH, [email protected]

  2. Amr Kayid in Toronto (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Staff Research Eng - World Models @ Runway (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Team & MTS @ Cohere

    3. Description: Left Runway on 7/25 with no updates

    4. Site, [email protected]

  3. Nils Westerlund & Hampus Lideborg in NYC (Co-Founders @ Setset AI)

    1. Role: Early Team & Product / Growth Lead @ Runway (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: 7th FTE & Growth @ SoundCloud, Founder & CEO @ How.Do (backed by GV, Wellington, Horizon Ventures),

    3. Description: “At Setset, we are reimagining how brands create brand imagery. Our platform combines generative AI with production-grade workflows, enabling fashion, and lifestyle brands to produce on-brand model photography and video at scale — faster, more diverse, and more cost-effective than traditional shoots.”

    4. Site, Twitter

  4. Doyup Lee in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: MTS @ Runway (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Team Lead & AI Research Scientist @ Kakao Brain, PhD @ Pohang University

    3. Description: “Building the next era of creativity”

    4. Site, Twitter, GH, [email protected]

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