Today’s Talent Pools

Paraform, a three-year-old San Francisco startup that has designed a platform where recruiters and AI systems collaborate to match companies with candidates for hiring, raised a $40 million Series B round led by Scale Venture Partners, with Felicis also joining in. More here.

  1. Katie Yoon in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: 5th FTE & Founding Strategic Projects @ Paraform (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Biz Ops @ Permanent, Researcher @ Stanford HAI, Summer Associate @ EY-Parthenon, Stanford MS & BS

    3. Description: "building"

  2. Enya Lu in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Founding Operations & Product @ Paraform (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: APM @ Salesforce, Growth Intern @ Scale AI, Stanford BS Product Design

    3. Description: Left Paraform on 3/26

  3. Stockton DeLaria in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: 6th FTE & Founding Operator @ Paraform (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Engagement Manager @ Scale AI, Senior Associate Consultant @ Bain, Georgia Tech BS, Oxford

    3. Description: Left Paraform on 11/25

  4. Jalen Xing in SF (Co-Founder @ Mocked)

    1. Role: Founding Engineer @ Paraform (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Venture Fellow @ General Catalyst, SWE Intern @ Meta, SWE Intern @ AWS, UC Berkeley MS EECS

    3. Description: "Leetcode for Product Managers"

Hanover Park, a two-year-old New York startup whose AI platform automates fund administration workflows for private equity and venture capital firms, raised a $27 million Series A round co-led by Emergence Capital, Lux Capital, and Susa Ventures. More here.

  1. Vaish Gajaraj in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Founding AI Engineer @ Hanover Park (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Technical Co-Founder @ Stealth Startup, ML Engineer @ STR (defense), ML Research @ Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, Cornell Engineering

    3. Description: Left Hanover Park on 12/25

Andromeda, a two-year-old Austin startup that brokers GPU compute capacity for AI companies, has raised an undisclosed amount from Paradigm at a $1.5 billion valuation. Paradigm has invested a total of $60 million in the company. More here.

  1. Ayush Tambde in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Special Projects @ Andromeda (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Trainer of Models @ NFDG (Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross), UCD Theoretical Physics (on leave)

    3. Description: Left Andromeda on 2/26

    4. Contact: Site, Twitter, GitHub

Axiamatic, a five-year-old startup based in Saratoga, CA, whose software helps companies manage large digital transformation projects, raised a $54 million round co-led by Greylock Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. More here.

  1. Alex Haefner in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of Product @ Axiamatic (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Product @ Envoy, Group PM @ Yelp

    3. Description: Stealth since 12/25

    4. Contact: Twitter

Grow Therapy, an NYC-based mental health startup, raised $150 million in Series D funding at a $3 billion valuation. TCG and Goldman Sachs Alternatives led, joined by Menlo Ventures, BCI, Sequoia Capital, SignalFire, and Transformation Capital. More here.

  1. Edward Hsyeh in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Senior Director Strategy & Ops @ Grow Therapy (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & COO @ Mealism, AVP @ Progyny, Summer Associate @ Bain, Stanford MBA

    3. Description: "Working on something in insurance"

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) has agreed to acquire London-based stablecoin infrastructure startup BVNK for up to $1.8 billion, including $300 million of contingent payments. More here.

  1. Chiraayu Sethi in London (Stealth)

    1. Role: Staff PM @ BVNK (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Stealth, Senior PM @ Revolut, PM @ Citymapper, Carnegie Mellon BS

    3. Description: Stealth since 2026

    4. Contact: Site, Twitter

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