Today’s Talent Pools

Verily, a life sciences company formed by Google over a decade ago, raised $300M in a funding round that results in Alphabet no longer having a control stake.

  1. Fabien Beckers in San Diego (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Director @ Google X (3 yrs), Head of Digital Pathology @ Verily (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ Arterys ($70M raised → acquired by Tempus AI), Founder & CEO @ Kameleon Technologies, Cambridge PhD, Stanford GSB

    3. Description: Left Google X on 11/25 with no updates

  2. Scarlet Shore in Seattle (Stealth)

    1. Role: Founding Team & GM @ Verily (7 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Screenable, Co-Founder @ Riverpark Farm, PM @ Button, Analyst @ JPMorgan

    3. Description: Stealth since 6/25

  3. Ankur Jain in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Engineering @ Verily (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Investor @ Pear VC, Founder @ BioPrep (100K+ students), TPM @ Meta, TPM @ Google, NLP Researcher @ UC Berkeley School of Law, Engineering @ NASA JPL

    3. Description: Left Pear VC in 2025 with no updates and in headline

  4. Brian Kihoon Lee in Boston (Stealth)

    1. Role: SWE @ Verily (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Sr SWE @ Databricks, 1st Eng & Director of ML @ Lilac AI (acquired by Databricks), Sr Research Eng @ Google

    3. Description: Stealth since 4/25

  5. Thomas Osborne in NYC (Founder & CEO @ Stealth Biotech)

    1. Role: Head of Strategy & Partnerships @ Verily (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Biopharma Partner @ McKinsey, Director PM & Ops @ Flatiron Health, PM II @ Microsoft, Harvard AB, Wharton MBA

    3. Description: "Building in Bio x AI" — stealth biotech focused on multi-target I&I therapeutics

  6. Kate Kerames in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Strategic Partnerships & BD @ Verily (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz Bio Fund, Director Corp Dev & Ventures @ AstraZeneca, Senior Manager @ Celgene, MBA Associate @ Radius Ventures, Columbia Business School MBA

    3. Description: Stealth since 8/25

  7. Nicolas Reyes in NYC (Co-Founder @ Leda AI)

    1. Role: SWE @ Verily (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Staff SWE @ Phantom, SWE @ Airbnb, UMich CS

    3. Description: “The first agentic deal closing workflow & e-signing platform. Close deals and send contracts for signature faster”

  8. Cheng Zhao in NYC (Co-Founder & CTO @ Stealth)

    1. Role: Senior SWE, ML @ Verily (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Senior SWE ML @ Instagram, SWE @ Google, Co-Founder & CTO @ Wisely Inc

    3. Description: Stealth since 5/25

  9. Min Kim in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Design Lead @ Verily (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Product Designer @ Meta, Staff Product Designer @ ASAPP, Product Designer @ LinkedIn, CMU MS HCI

    3. Description: Stealth since 3/25

  10. Andrew Han in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Genomics Lead @ Verily (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Director of Drug Development @ Second Genome, Postdoc @ UC Berkeley, Oregon Health PhD

    3. Description: “Building Novel Therapeutics for Immune-mediated diseases”

  11. Tom Rudick in Boston (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Staff SWE Manager @ Verily (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Eng Team & VP of Engineering @ Story Health, Staff SWE @ Google, SWE @ Spotify, SWE @ Microsoft

    3. Description: "Building Something New"

    4. Contact: Site, Twitter

Cape, a four-year-old startup based in Arlington, VA, that operates a privacy-focused mobile network that does not track user data, raised a $100 million round at a $900 million post-money valuation. The deal was co-led by Bain Capital Ventures and IVP, with previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and A* Capital also stepping up. The company has raised a total of $190 million. Forbes has more here.

  1. Christopher S. in DC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Founding SWE @ Cape (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Technical Lead @ Palantir, Systems Engineer @ Anduril, Texas A&M BS

    3. Description: Career break since 10/24

  2. Yuna Wang in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of Mobile @ Cape (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Staff SWE @ Google Maps, UWaterloo BSc

    3. Description: “Travel startup”

Halter, a New Zealand-based developer of smart cow collars, is in talks to raise funding led by Founders Fund at a $2B valuation, per Bloomberg.

  1. Sam McGillicudy in Auckland (Stealth)

    1. Role: Founded Fleet Engineering Team & Engineering Manager @ Halter (6 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Invoke, Independent Developer @ Samsung

    3. Description: "Exploring a radically new product category enabled by ML"

  2. Krishna Caldas in Auckland (Founder & CEO @ Mutiro Labs)

    1. Role: Head of Engineering @ Halter (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Engineering @ NextWork, Co-Founder @ bkper, Staff SWE @ Nubank, Principal Developer @ ThoughtWorks

    3. Description: "Messaging for AI Agents Real identity. Real-time. Purpose-built infrastructure for the agent era.”

  3. Prashant Girdhar in Auckland (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Head of Launch (joined pre-revenue) @ Halter (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Biz Ops @ Fuse Energy

    3. Description: Left Fuse Energy on 7/25

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