This Week’s Talent Pools
Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based surveillance tech company that raised $275M at a $7.5B valuation in March 2025, is in talks for a new round.
Matt F. in Atlanta (Potential Founder)
Role: Founder & CTO @ Flock Safety (8 yrs)
Other Experience: Georgia Tech BS CS
Description: Left Flock in 2025
Function, which raised $298 million in a Series B round led by Redpoint Ventures at a valuation of $2.5 billion in November, announced it has acquired Getlabs, a leading mobile healthcare platform that brings licensed specialists directly to one's location and previously raised $50 million from Emerson Collective, Labcorp, and Tusk Venture Partners. PRNewswire has more here.
Mike Nemke in Austin (Stealth)
Role: Co-Founder & CTO @ Function Health (4.5 yrs)
Description: Stealth since 3/26
Contact: [email protected], Twitter
Kyle Michelson in US (Founder & CEO @ Italic)
Role: Founder & CEO @ Getlabs (6.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ Streamup (YC W16)
Description: "Healthcare AI"
Contact: [email protected]
Vlad Bouchouev in NYC (Stealth)
Role: Early FTE & Staff Technical Product Manager @ Function Health (1.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Investment Strategist @ BlackRock, CMU BS, Duke MA
Description: “Building”
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.
Vishesh Sharma in NYC (Stealth)
Role: Co-Founder & CEO @ Pillar (3 yrs)
Other Experience: Private Equity @ Strategy&, Growth Equity @ Stripes, Columbia BA
Description: Stealth since 2025
Contact: [email protected]
Shreshth Rajan in NYC (Potential Founder)
Role: 1st FTE & Founding Engineer @ Pillar (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Forge (backed by Founders Fund & OpenAI), Research @ Harvard, Harvard BA Pure Mathematics & Philosophy
Description: Harvard Math & Philosophy Student
Contact: [email protected]
Parasail, an SF based deployment network for AI agents, raised $32M in Series A funding. Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures led, joined by Samsung Next, Flume Ventures, and Banyan Ventures.
Alexander Pucher in SF (Stealth)
Role: Founding Engineer @ Parasail (2 yrs)
Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ StarTree, Senior SWE @ LinkedIn, UC Santa Barbara PhD CS
Description: Stealth since 1/26
Contact: Site
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
Starfish Space, a seven-year-old startup based in Tukwila, WA, that develops satellite servicing vehicles that can dock with and maneuver spacecraft in orbit, raised a $110 million Series B round co-led by Point72 Ventures, Activate Capital, and Shield Capital, with Industrious Ventures, NightDragon, Nomi Capital, Gaingels, and Overlap Holdings as well as previous investors NFX, Munich Re Ventures, Toyota Ventures, and PSL Ventures also piling on. The company has raised a total of $150+ million.
Ian Heidenberger in Seattle (Potential Founder)
Role: Chief Engineer @ Starfish Space (4.75 yrs)
Other Experience: Autonomous Controls Engineer @ Blue Origin, Project Engineer @ Honeybee Robotics
Description: Left Starfish Space on 12/24