Today’s Talent Pools

Mercury, an SF-based fintech that made its name banking startups, is in late-stage talks to raise at over a $5B valuation. The company reportedly has ~$500M+ in revenue and serves over 200K startups.

  1. Michael Ducker in SF (CEO & Co-Founder @ Valet AI)

    1. Role: VP of Product Management @ Mercury (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Director Technical Strategy & Director PM @ Chime, GPM @ Twitter, CEO & Co-Founder @ Pinch (acquired by Chime), CEO & Co-Founder @ Blaide, PM @ Microsoft

    3. Description: "Enterprise infrastructure for AI coding agents — prompts as their only source code"

    4. Contact: Site, Twitter

  2. Alejandro Mesa in LA (Co-Founder & CTO @ Asset)

    1. Role: Head of Engineering Accounting @ Mercury (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Engineering @ Teal.dev (acquired by Mercury), Director of Engineering @ InfluxData, Founding Engineer & Director of Engineering @ Rho AI (acquired by GM)

    3. Description: “Asset delivers embedded accounting to your platform’s SMB customers.”

    4. Contact: Site

  3. Rohini Pandhi in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Head of Expansion @ Mercury (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Product Lead @ Block, Co-Founder @ Transparent Collective

    3. Description: SPC Member Residency since 2/26

  4. Andrew Burleson in Denver (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of Engineering Banking @ Mercury (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ CoSell ($3M from SaaStr), Head of Engineering Statuspage @ Atlassian, Staff SWE @ Atlassian

    3. Description: "Taking a break, then starting something new"

  5. Chester Zelaya in LA (Founder @ Droneforge)

    1. Role: Mercury Raise program participant

    2. Other Experience: Builder in Residence @ The Residency, AI Entrepreneurs at Berkeley, and Founders Inc., UC Berkeley ME & EECS

    3. Description: "An AI first drone company dedicated to advancing aerial intelligence and democratizing it through accessible hardware”

    4. Funding: Raised $2.5M pre-seed from Outlander, First In Capital, Tofino Capital, Shor Capital.

  6. Rohan Desai in SF (Neo Scholar)

    1. Role: Infra Engineering Intern @ Mercury

    2. Other Experience: Neo Scholar, AI Researcher @ Harvey Mudd HOPE Lab, SWE Intern @ Ramp, Co-Founder & Tech Lead @ Unveil Inc, Co-Founder & CTO @ Vocatix, Founding Partner @ Crater Ventures

    3. Description: "Building world models to simulate human behavior."

    4. Contact: site, [email protected]

  7. Jon Hearty in San Mateo (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Partnerships @ Mercury (5.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: 4th FTE & Head of BD @ Origin Protocol, 1st FTE & COO @ Datanyze (acquired by ZoomInfo), 10th FTE & BD @ Redbeacon, ODF1

    3. Description: "Wandering & building."

    4. Contact: Site Twitter

  8. Merrick Liu in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: SWE @ Mercury (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer & 1st FTE @ AthenaHQ (YC W25, $2.7M raised), ML Researcher @ UofT,

    3. Description: Left AthenaHQ in 2025. “Doing stuff.”

  9. Evan Nicholas in LA (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Strategic Finance Lead @ Mercury (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founding team & Head of Finance @ Teal (acquired by Mercury), COO @ Origins Analytics (acquired by Treehouse), COO @ Animal Kingdom, Investor @ Susquehanna, Analyst @ Goldman Sachs

    3. Description: Left Mercury in 2025 with no updates

  10. Baeo Maltinsky in Berkeley (No Current Role)

    1. Role: Sr. SWE @ Mercury (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: ML Engineer @ Midjourney, Lead Engineer @ Mercatoria, Researcher @ Median Group, UC Berkeley BA Math

    3. Description: Left Midjourney on 9/25

  11. Parker Wilf in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Product @ Mercury (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: PM Area Lead @ Dropbox, Georgetown BBA

    3. Description: "Exploring. Tinkering."

Central, a three-year-old startup that uses AI agents and human experts to handle payroll, benefits, HR, PTO, and compliance for founders, was acquired by Mercury. The price was not disclosed.

  1. Kwabena Boateng O. in US (Between Things)

    1. Role: SWE @ Central (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Ply Health (YC S24), CTO @ Fuse (YC W19), CTO @ YSplit, SWE @ Google

    3. Description: “AI x Automation | Real-World Software."

Coefficient Bio, an eight-month-old stealth startup building AI models for biological research, was acquired by Anthropic in a stock deal worth just over $400M.

  1. Collin Spencer, PhD in NYC (Potential Founder)

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

    2. Other Experience: Doctoral Researcher @ Mount Sinai, Co-Founder & Director @ Nucleate NYC, Georgia Tech BS, Mount Sinai PhD Biomedical AI

    3. Description: “AI x Life Sciences”

Numos AI, a one-year-old SF startup that uses AI to analyze financial data across accounting, billing, and planning systems, raised a $4.25M seed led by General Catalyst, with Operator Collective also participating.

  1. Neal Williams in SF (Founder @ Stealth)

    1. Role: Founding Engineer @ Numos AI (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Lexome, Sr. SWE @ Chegg, Sr. UI Engineer @ Zenefits

    3. Description: Stealth since 2/26

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