This Week’s Top Talent Pools

Parallel Web Systems, a three-year-old Palo Alto startup that provides infrastructure for AI agents to search the web, raised a $100 million Series B round at a $2 billion post-money valuation. The deal was led by Sequoia Capital, with previous investors Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, and Khosla Ventures also participating. The company has raised a total of $230 million.

  1. Gauri Gupta in SF (Co-Founder @ NeoSigma)

    1. Role: Early Team & MTS @ Parallel Web Systems (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: ML Research @ Apple, Researcher @ MIT Media Lab (PhD dropout), IIT Delhi BS Math & CS

    3. Description: "At NeoSigma, we are building the future of self-improving AI systems.”

  2. Shubham Gupta in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Founding Engineer @ Parallel Web Systems (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Waymo, SWE @ Bloomberg, IIT Roorkee BS CS, UCSD MS CS

    3. Description: Stealth since 2025

Rogo, a NYC-based generative AI platform for financial services, raised a $160M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins, with Sequoia, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, J.P. Morgan, BoxGroup, and Mantis VC at a $2B valuation. Total raised $300M+. Used by 35,000+ professionals at 250+ institutions including Lazard, Nomura, J.P. Morgan, and Bank of America.

  1. Joseph McCombs in South Bend (CTO & Co-Founder @ Stealth Startup)

    1. Role: 1st FTE & Founding Engineer @ Rogo (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Research Programmer @ University of Notre Dame, Indiana University South Bend BS CS

    3. Description: Stealth since 5/25

    4. Contact: GitHub

  2. Nikolai Stakheiko in NYC (Founder @ HomeFig)

    1. Role: Founding Engineer @ Rogo (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Sr SWE @ Vizcom

    3. Description: “Building the next generation of architectural and design 3D tooling”

  3. Matt Vickers in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of Product @ Rogo (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Director of PM @ Ramp, GM of Product @ Xero, Columbia MBA

    3. Description: “Working on something new”

    4. Twitter

Actively raised a $45M Series B from TCV and First Harmonic, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, First Round Capital, and Alkeon Capital.

  1. Sayan Chaudhry in NYC (Building)

    1. Role: 1st Eng & Product Engineering Lead @ Actively (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Product Engineer @ Scale AI, SWE @ Lyft, CMU MS & BS CS

    3. Description: Stealth since 2/26

    4. Contact: [email protected]

True Anomaly, a Centennial, Colo.-based developer of autonomous spacecraft and software for U.S. national security, raised $650 million in Series D funding led by insiders Eclipse and Riot Ventures at a $2.2 billion post-money valuation.

  1. Ari Rosner in NYC (Co-Founder & CEO @ Airbase) - Series A Lead

    1. Role: 2nd FTE & Chief Engineer @ True Anomaly (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Mechanical Engineer @ NASA JPL, Analyst @ Riot Ventures, Caltech BS

    3. Description: "Software platform for spectrum licensing, coordination, and intelligence"

    4. Funding: $5M led by a16z, with Squadra Ventures and FYSK on 3/26.

  2. Eric S. in US (Stealth)

    1. Role: Deputy Chief Engineer, Missile Defense @ True Anomaly (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Principal Technical Program Engineer @ Missile Defense Agency, Sr Technical Program Engineer @ US Navy

    3. Description: Stealth since 4/26

Legora, a collaborative AI platform for lawyers, raised $50M in Series D extension funding, bringing its total to $600M at a $5.6B post-money valuation. New backers include Atlassian, NVentures, Airtree, Barclays, Geodesic, Insight, Liberty Global, and Nikesh Arora.

  1. Arvid Lagerqvist in Sweden (Co-Founder & CTO @ Favora)

    1. Role: 1st FTE & Founding SWE @ Legora (<1 yr)

    2. Description: “Redefining how you discover and shop fashion”

    3. Funding: “Backed by operators and investors at OpenAI, CRV, Node.vc, and Wave Ventures.”

    4. Contact: [email protected]

Fun, an NYC-based payments platform, raised $72M in Series A funding led by Multicoin Capital and SignalFire.

  1. William Starr in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Co-Founder & CPO @ Fun (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Investor @ 6MV, Co-Founder @ Timeless, Technical Lead & Investor @ FinTech Collective

    3. Description: Left Fun on 9/24. LI status says "Something"

  2. Albert Su in US (Stealth)

    1. Role: Founding Engineer @ Fun (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Andalusia Labs ($50M from LSVP at $1B+ valuation), Intern @ Coinbase, UC Berkeley BS CS

    3. Description: Left stealth CTO role 2025

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