Today’s Talent Pools

Vapi, a three-year-old San Francisco startup that handles customer phone calls with AI voice agents, raised a $50M round at a $500M+ valuation. Peak XV led, with M12, Bessemer, and Kleiner Perkins. Total raised $72M.

  1. Andrew Schwartz in Boston (Co-Founder & CTO @ Happiness)

    1. Role: Principal Architect @ Vapi (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ Dodgeball (acq by Spreedly), Co-Founder @ Lattice Engines ($75M from Sequoia, NEA → acq by D&B), Harvard PhD Math

    3. Description: "Building @ Happiness." Serial founder with two exits

  2. Andy Prevalsky in SF (Founder & CEO @ Rose Labs)

    1. Role: Staff SWE @ Vapi (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ Hotplate (YC, backed by a16z Connie Chan), UT Austin BS Math & ECE

    3. Description: "Pioneering Mass Agent Networks"

  3. Abizar B. in SF (Potential Founder)

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

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Methid (Founders Fund backed), Founder @ Cottage, SWE @ Nearside (acq by Plastiq), Northwestern BS+MS CS

    3. Description: KP Fellow

    4. Contact: Site, X, [email protected]

  4. Shanay Champaneri in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: MTS @ Vapi (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Meridian (a16z backed), SWE Intern @ Robinhood and Palantir, Cornell CS

    3. Description: Left Vapi 5/26

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  5. Ryan McWhorter in SF (Founder @ Kuren)

    1. Role: SWE @ Vapi (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ SuperFocus, UT Austin BS Math & BBA Quant Finance

    3. Description: Founder @ Kuren since 6/25

    4. Contact: Site, X, [email protected]

Fractile, a developer of inference hardware for AI, raised $220M in Series B funding. Accel, Factorial Funds, and Founders Fund led, joined by Conviction, Gigascale, 01A, Felicis, Buckley Ventures, and 8VC.

  1. Yuhang Song in Oxford (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Co-Founder & CTO @ Fractile (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CSO @ Circlemind (YC F24), CTO & Co-Founder @ Perturbation, Oxford PhD Computational Neuroscience

    3. Description: Left Circlemind 3/25

  2. Bragadeesh Suresh Babu in London (Founder & CEO @ Tattvam AI)

    1. Role: MTS @ Fractile (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Algorithms & HPC Engineer @ CoMind

    3. Description: "Building the intelligence layer of chip design"

    4. Funding: Raised $1.7M pre-seed from Seedcamp, EWOR, Entropy Industrial Capital on 2/26.

    5. Contact: [email protected]

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