Today’s Talent Pools
ScaleOps, an Israeli computing resource allocation startup, raised $130M in Series C funding at an $800M valuation. Insight Partners led, joined by Lightspeed, NFX, Glilot Capital Partners, and Picture Capital.
Guy Baron in Tel Aviv (Potential Founder)
Role: Co-Founder & CTO @ ScaleOps (3.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Head of R&D @ Wix, CTO @ Qognify ($58M raised), Principal Engineer @ WeWork, Senior Engineering Manager @ NCR
Description: On career break as of 9/25
Contact: Twitter
Adam Littas in Israel (Stealth)
Role: VP Business & Strategy @ ScaleOps (2.5 yrs)
Other Experience: VP Strategic Partnerships @ Cloudinary, VP Global Sales @ Run:ai, Global Sales Director @ Cloudinary
Description: Stealth since 11/25
Raz Goldenberg in Tel Aviv (Stealth)
Role: Solutions Architect @ ScaleOps (1.5 yrs)
Other Experience: DevOps Engineer @ Coralogix, DevOps Team Lead @ Israeli Military Intelligence
Description: "Building AI Infra."
Crosby, an NYC-based maker of legal agents, raised $60M in Series B funding. Lux Capital and Index Ventures led, joined by Sequoia Capital, Elad Gil, Bain Capital Ventures, and 01 Advisors.
Yong Jae Kim in NYC (Stealth)
Role: Lawyer @ Crosby (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Associate @ Latham & Watkins, Quant Equities Data Scientist @ Lazard, Analyst @ BlackRock, Harvard JD, UChicago MS CS & BA Econ
Description: "Ex-quant, ex-biglaw — now building things"
Factory is an AI coding agent startup reportedly at ~$60M ARR, up ~6x since January, per Arfur Rock.
Shawn Simister in SF (Stealth)
Role: MTS @ Factory (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Staff SWE @ GitHub, SWE & Developer Programs Engineer @ Google, Co-Founder @ MyShield.com, Carleton BCS
Description: “Building AI powered tools to augment human creativity and problem solving”
Contact: [email protected]
David Adams in NYC (Stealth)
Role: MTS @ Factory (<1 yr)
Other Experience: SWE @ Rilla, Founding Engineer @ Stealth, Frontend Engineer @ Verkada, Georgia Tech BS CS
Description: Stealth since 1/26
Contact: [email protected]
Affan Hussain in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: MTS @ Factory (1.5 yrs)
Other Experience: SWE Developer Experience @ Facebook, UMD BS CS
Description: Self-employed since 7/25
Contact: [email protected]
Variance (formerly Intrinsic), a NYC startup creating AI investigative agents for risk and compliance at F500 companies, raised $21.5M Series A led by Ten Eleven Ventures, with 645 Ventures, Y Combinator, Urban Innovation Fund, and Okta Ventures. Total raised: $26M.
Simon Narang in SF (Founder)
Role: SWE @ Variance (2 yrs)
Other Experience: SWE @ PayPal
Description: “24/7 AI Phone Answering for Restaurants”
Contact: [email protected]
