Today’s Talent Pools

Pillar, an NYC-based hedging and risk execution platform for commodity-driven businesses, raised $20M. a16z led, joined by Crucible Capital, Gallery Ventures, Neo, Analog Ventures, and Dara Khosrowshahi.

  1. Vishesh Sharma in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Co-Founder & CEO @ Pillar (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Private Equity @ Strategy&, Growth Equity @ Stripes, Columbia BA

    3. Description: Stealth since 2025

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  2. Shreshth Rajan in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: 1st FTE & Founding Engineer @ Pillar (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Forge (backed by Founders Fund & OpenAI), Research @ Harvard, Harvard BA Pure Mathematics & Philosophy

    3. Description: Harvard Math & Philosophy Student

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  3. Richard Li in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: 1st Growth FTE @ Pillar (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Strategy & Product Intern @ Jane Street, Engineer in Residence @ Antler, VC Intern @ Decibel Partners, Columbia BA Philosophy & Mathematics

    3. Description: Columbia Philosophy & Math class of ‘26

Resolve AI, an SF-based agentic AI startup that fixes software, raised $40M in Series A extension funding led by DST Global and Salesforce Ventures at a $1.5B valuation.

  1. Burhan Drak Sibai in SF (Co-Founder @ Jooba)

    1. Role: FDE @ Resolve AI (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Member of Technical Staff @ Essential AI & Lacework, BASc @ Waterloo

    3. Description: “Building autonomous recruiting.”

    4. Funding: Backed by A16Z Speedrun, Genius Ventures, Scribble

    5. [email protected]

  2. Joseph Wu in SF (Founder @ Mersel AI)

    1. Role: Product Engineer @ Resolve AI (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Research Engineer @ BMW Group, Harvard Master in Design Studies

    3. Description: “Get Qualified Inbound Leads from AI Search.”

    4. Contact: Site

  3. Nikhil D. in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: MTS @ Resolve AI (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: SWE Intern @ Nuro, SWE Intern @ AWS, Harvard BS & MS CS

    3. Description: Left Resolve AI in 2026

  4. Aileen Piao in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: AI Infrastructure Product Manager @ Resolve AI (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: AI PM @ Meituan, SaaS PM @ ByteDance, CMU MS Software Management

    3. Description: “AI Entrepreneur”

  5. Sheel B. in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: MTS @ Resolve AI (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Microsoft (Azure backend/infra), SWE Intern @ Qualcomm, Georgia Tech MS & BS CS/CE

    3. Description: Left Resolve on 10/25

Slate Auto, a Troy, Mich.-based developer of affordable electric pickup trucks, raised $650M led by TWG Global. Other backers include Jeff Bezos, General Catalyst, and Slauson & Co.

  1. Akhil Dhyani in SF (Co-Founder & CTO @ eXlens.ai)

    1. Role: Head of Automotive Software @ Slate Auto (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Director Software Engineering @ Tesla, Information Systems Manager @ SolarCity, Sr Data Engineer @ SolarCity

    3. Description: “AI-powered quality management for modern factories.”

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