Today’s Talent Pools

Replit, an SF-based development environment, raised $400m in Series D funding. Georgian led, joined by G Squared, Prysm Capital, 1789 Capital, YC, Coatue, a16z, Craft Ventures, QIA, Accenture Ventures, Databricks Ventures, Okta Ventures, Tether, Shaquille O'Neal, and Jared Leto. axios.link/4ruZU2Z

  1. Søren Rood in SF (Co-Founder @ Run) - Venture / Growth Lead

    1. Role: 16th FTE & Product @ Replit (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: EIR @ Sutter Hill Ventures, Co-Founder @ Blubbr

    3. Description: "Helping companies deploy teams of AI coworkers"

    4. Contact: Site, Twitter, [email protected]

    5. Funding: Backed by Sutter Hill Ventures

  2. Jassim Latif in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: VP of Operations @ Replit (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: VP of Product Partnerships @ Glean, Co-Founder & COO @ Zipper ($6M Seed), Director of Product & Strategic Partnerships @ Slack, 4th FTE & Director of BD @ BitGo ($170M from Redpoint, Founders Fund), EIR @ Social Capital, Co-Founder & CEO @ Tiller (Seed from Social Capital), Business Analyst @ Google

    3. Description: Left Glean on 12/25

    4. Contact: Twitter

  3. Tyler Angert in NYC (Founder & CEO @ Patina Systems)

    1. Role: 1st Designer & IDE Design Lead @ Replit (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Research @ MIT Media Lab (Scratch), Ed.M @ Harvard

    3. Description: "Everyday tools you can quickly customize and share, right when you need to"

    4. Contact: Site, Twitter

    5. Funding: Backed by Air Street Capital, Haystack, Cursor Capital, 2392 Fund, Soleio, Moth Fund, Uncommon Projects on 9/24.

  4. Jonathan Unikowski in SF (Founder @ Net)

    1. Role: Product Engineering Director @ Replit (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: VP of Engineering @ Berbix, Founder @ Lexloci, LL.M @ UC Berkeley

    3. Description: "An email app for people who hate emailing on their phone"

    4. Contact: Site

  5. Marcus Naughton in SF (Founder @ Arklow)

    1. Role: SWE @ Replit (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founding SWE @ Bland AI ($65M from Emergence, Scale VP, YC), Founder & CEO @ Chatsight (backed by Entrepreneur First)

    3. Description: "Agent work is infinite, hardware is constrained. We help that work get done durably."

    4. Contact: Site, GitHub, Twitter

  6. Reza Shabani in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of AI @ Replit (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Shopsync, VP of Scientific Active Equity @ BlackRock, Quant @ Wellington Management, PhD Economics @ UC Berkeley

    3. Description: Stealth since 6/23

  7. Emilie Ma in Vancouver (Potential Founder)

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

    2. Other Experience: Intern @ OpenAI, Stripe, Cloudflare

    3. Description: University of British Columbia class of '26

    4. Contact: Site, GitHub, [email protected]

  8. Krish Shah in Waterloo (Potential Founder)

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

    2. Other Experience: Intern @ xAI, Wispr Flow, Zoox

    3. Description: Waterloo class of '26

    4. Contact: Site, Twitter, [email protected]

  9. Talor Anderson in San Diego (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Product Engineer @ Replit (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Senior AI Engineer II @ Honeycomb.io and Intuit

    3. Description: Left Replit on 9/25

    4. Contact: Site, Twitter

  10. Emma Salinas in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Designer @ Replit (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer and Designer @ On Deck ($20M from Founders Fund)

    3. Description: Stealth since 2022

  11. Xiaoyi Chen in SF (Founder @ RecurseChat)

    1. Role: SWE @ Replit (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Salesforce, SWE @ Oracle, MS CS @ Dartmouth

    3. Description: "Chat with local LLMs, Claude, and ChatGPT from a single Mac app"

    4. Contact: GitHub, Twitter

  12. Alek Hurst in Tahoe (Founder & CEO @ Lumyx)

    1. Role: 2nd Engineer @ Replit (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: VP of Engineering @ Magnet Forensics, VP of Cloud Products @ Grayshift, Director of Eng @ CyberGRX

    3. Description: "Simplify complex cases & create compelling courtroom presentations"

    4. Contact: [email protected]

Zendesk is acquiring Forethought, a seven-year-old San Francisco startup that develops AI software to automate customer service interactions. Terms were not disclosed. Forethought raised a total of $115 million from investors like Blue Cloud Ventures, NEA, Industry Ventures, Neo, Village Global, and Sound Ventures. TechCrunch has more here.

  1. Volodymyr Lyubinets in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Founding Engineer & Engineering Manager @ Forethought (6.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Databricks, SWE @ LinkedIn, SWE @ Facebook, UWaterloo CS, ACM ICPC finals & regional champion, top 100 Putnam individuals in NA

    3. Description: CTO @ Stealth AI since 10/25

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  2. Colm Doyle in SF (CEO @ ContextRiver)

    1. Role: Co-Founder & CCO @ Forethought (7 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Director @ Autonomy, Director @ Blinkx

    3. Description: "Context River unifies and normalizes your enterprise data into AI-ready context, then serves it securely to applications and agents."

    4. Contact: Twitter

  3. Sophia Xing in SF (Founder @ Plot Party)

    1. Role: Lead Product Manager @ Forethought (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Product @ Inworld AI, PM @ Google, Princeton

    3. Description: "The transmedia platform for IPs of the future"

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