Today’s Talent Pools
Mintlify, which builds knowledge infrastructure for AI (documentation platform), raised a $45M Series B at a $500M valuation led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures.
Tobias Carryer in Saskatoon (Stealth)
Role: Founding Engineer & 1st FTE @ Mintlify (<1 yr)
Other Experience: SWE @ Stripe
Description: “Building the future of banking for healthcare.”
Ruhan Ponnada in SF (Co-Founder & CEO @ Salesgraph)
Role: Founding Solutions Engineer @ Mintlify (1.5 yrs)
Other Experience: PM @ Microsoft, Co-Founder @ Mabbu (Antler, Unusual Ventures Fellow), Georgia Tech BS CS
Description: “Bring founder-level context to every rep, every call.”
Funding: YC P26
Ricardo Nunez in SF (Co-Founder @ Salesgraph)
Role: Full Stack Engineer @ Mintlify (1.5 yrs)
Description: “Bring founder-level context to every rep, every call.”
Funding: YC P26
David Aviles in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: Head of GTM @ Mintlify (1.5 yrs)
Other Experience: UC Berkeley BA
Description: Left Mintlify on 1/26.
Contact: Twitter
Samarth Chitgopekar in SF (Stealth)
Role: SWE @ Mintlify (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Venture Fellow @ General Catalyst and Canaan, UX Engineer @ Whop, SWE @ Hyper, Research Assistant @ CMU, Cornell BS CS
Description: SPC member since 6/25
Contact: [email protected], Site
Poke, a two-year-old Palo Alto startup that offers an AI agent that completes tasks across apps through text messaging, raised a $10 million round co-led by Spark Capital and General Catalyst. The company has raised a total of $25 million.
Role: SWE @ The Interaction Company of California (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ build (backed by Abstract Ventures, Pear VC, HF0, Z Fellows), Co-Founder @ Trajectory Education (sold edtech startup with 178K users in 3 months)
Description: "Current chat interfaces suck, so I built a canvas for LLMs."
Funding: FR8 Cohort 2.s.
Contact: [email protected], Site
Mohammad Hafez in Saudi Arabia (Potential Founder)
Role: MTS @ The Interaction Company of California (<1 yr)
Other Experience: MIT BS CS & Math, VALORANT Immortal 3 (Top 800), Bronze Medal at the International Math Olympiad
Description: Left Interaction Company on 2/26. MIT CS & Math student.
Yasmeena Khan in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: Product & Analytics @ The Interaction Company of California (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Sr Business Analyst @ McKinsey, Stanford BS
Description: Left Interaction Company on 3/26
Chapter, a six-year-old New York startup that helps older Americans choose Medicare coverage through a platform used by licensed advisors, raised a $100 million Series E round led by Generation Investment Management, with Fifth Down Capital, 8VC, Stripes, XYZ Venture Capital, Addition, Narya Capital, Susa Ventures, and Maverick Ventures also anteing up.
Shivang V. in NYC (Stealth)
Role: Founding Product @ Chapter (<1 yr)
Other Experience: SW Product Lead @ Natera, Product Management @ Octane
Description: “Solving healthcare billing problems"
Atlas, a modern spend management platform & concierge (launched out of Point Card), raised a $40M round at a $420M valuation led by Elad Gil.
Quinn Martinelli in NYC (Stealth) - Series A Lead
Role: Partnerships and Operations @ Atlas (1 yr)
Other Experience: Georgetown MBA, NYU Stern BS
Description: Stealth since 2/26
Funding: Raised stealth Seed in 2/26
Bluefish, an NYC-based AI marketing platform, raised $43M in Series B funding. Threshold Ventures and insider NEA led, joined by TIAA and Bloomberg Beta.
Nicholas Miller in NYC (Potential Founder)
Role: Product Leader @ Bluefish AI (2 yrs)
Other Experience: Principal PM Manager @ Microsoft
Description: Left Bluefish AI on 2/26
