Today’s Talent Pools

Poetiq, a one-year-old startup based in Mountain View, CA, that is developing a meta-system to improve large language model reasoning and efficiency across business problems, raised a $45.8 million seed round co-led by FYRFLY Venture Partners and Surface Ventures, with Y Combinator, 468 Capital, Operator Collective, Hico Ventures, and Neuron Venture Partners also investing. More here.

  1. David Marwood in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Founder & Head of Eng @ Poetiq (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Research Scientist @ DeepMind & Google

    3. Description: Left Poetiq on 9/25. Currently Advisor @ Battery Ventures

Railway, a six-year-old San Francisco startup that provides a cloud platform for deploying and running applications, raised a $100 million Series B round led by TQ Ventures, with FPV Ventures, Redpoint, and Unusual Ventures also digging in. More here.

  1. Surya Dantuluri in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Intern @ Railway (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder @ Prava (backed by OpenAI & Elad Gil) and Spread.xyz (#1 on Polymarket by PNL), UC Berkeley

    3. Description: “AI Holding Company”

    4. Site, Twitter, [email protected]

New York startup Sword Health, which offers digital musculoskeletal care, acquired German startup Kaia Health, which provides digital MSK and pulmonary programs, for $285 million. Tech Funding News has more here.

  1. Manuel T in Austria (Founder @ Lioma)

    1. Role: Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Kaia Health (10 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ Foodora (acquired by Delivery Hero)

    3. Description: “Building the intention layer for the agentic era. AI can execute anything. The bottleneck is knowing what matters.”

  2. Konstantin Mehl in NYC (Founder @ Daneel)

    1. Role: Founder & CEO @ Kaia Health (9.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ Foodora (acquired by Delivery Hero), Dual MS @ Columbia

    3. Description: “The next-generation CPA firm providing lightning-fast Quality of Earnings and comprehensive financial services.”

    4. Twitter, [email protected]

  3. Adam Pellegrini in Idaho (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: CEO @ Kaia Health (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Jasper Health ($30M from GC, Greycroft, Human Capital), GM & SVP @ Fitbit,

    3. Description: Joined Sword Health as EIR post-acquisition

    4. Twitter

  4. Moritz Philipp Weisbrodt in Germany (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Founder & CMO @ Kaia Health (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Alaiko ($30M from Tiger, Next47 —> acquired by Zenfulfillment)

    3. Description: Left Zenfulfillment on 12/25 post-acquisition. “Actively exploring what’s next” per LI “about”

  5. Gabriel Thomalla in Germany (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Co-Founder, Growth @ Kaia Health (9.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & MD @ Alaiko ($30M from Tiger, Next47 —> acquired by Zenfulfillment)

    3. Description: Left Zenfulfillment on 12/25 post-acquisition

Fieldguide, an SF-based developer of AI-enabled tools for accountants, raised $75m in Series C funding at a $700m valuation led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives.

  1. Soysal Degrimenci in US (Stealth)

    1. Role: Founding Member & Staff MLE @ Fieldguide (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Sr ML Scientist @ Amazon, Wash U PhD

    3. Description: Stealth since 10/25

    4. Site

  2. Greg Sabo in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Head of Eng @ Fieldguide (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Eng Lead - AI Experiences, SWE @ Stripe

    3. Description: Left Fieldguide on 12/25

    4. Site

Concourse, an SF-based provider of AI agents for corporate finance teams, raised $12m in Series A funding, per Axios Pro. Standard Capital led, joined by a16z, CRV, and YC. axios.link/4qPleRA

  1. Santiago Martinez Bragado in NYC (Co-Founder @ Traza)

    1. Role: Founding Eng @ Concourse (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Sr MLE @ Clarity AI

    3. Description: “Autonomous AI Operators for the physical economy”

RobCo, a Munich-based developer of industrial robots, raised $100m in Series C funding. Lightspeed and Lingotto Innovation led, joined by Sequoia Capital, Greenfield Partners, Kindred Capital, Leitmotif and The Friedkin Group. axios.link/45EGz7B

  1. Vinzenz Trimborn in Germany (Co-Founder & CTO @ Alago)

    1. Role: 1st FTE & SWE @ RobCo (1.5 yrs)

    2. Description: “Alago enables seamless tracking of decisions in your construction project.”

    3. Funding: $1M Pre-seed on 6/25

    4. Site

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