Today’s Talent Pools
Fragile, a startup powering consumer hardware subscription programs, raised ~$100M from Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, and Restive Ventures.
Thomas Kreek in SF (Co-Founder @ Stealth Startup)
Role: Co-Founder @ Fragile (1.5 yrs)
Other Experience: CEO @ LumenEd, Global PM @ Uber
Description: Co-Founder @ Stealth Startup since 10/25
Contact: Site
Jack Good in SF (Board Director @ Fragile)
Role: President @ Fragile (1.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Chief of Staff @ Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund, SWE @ OpenStore and Microsoft, UVA BS CS
Description: Transitioned to Board Director @ Fragile on 1/26
Jayson Hurst in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: 1st FTE & Product/Engineering @ Fragile (3.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Executive Director @ Startup Shell, SWE @ Qualtrics
Description: Left Fragile 3/26
Darshil Patel in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: SWE @ Fragile (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Pull (backed by Quiet Capital), SWE @ Broadcast, Application Security Developer @ Shopify
Description: “Buiding in Fintech”
Contact: [email protected], Site
Nabeela I. in DC (Potential Founder)
Role: 4th SWE @ Fragile (1 yr)
Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Lingo AI, SWE Intern @ Bloomberg
Description: Left Fragile 3/25
SiMa.ai, a San Jose-based edge AI chip developer, is in talks to raise $100M+ at a $1.4B valuation. Previously raised $270M from MSD Partners, Fidelity, Amplify, Dell Technologies, Wing VC.
Anaiy Somalwar in SF (Co-Founder @ Stealth)
Role: ML Engineer @ SiMa.ai (<1 yr)
Other Experience: ML Researcher @ BAIR, Venture Associate @ Foundation Capital, Venture Fellow @ Pear VC, US Chess Team Member, UC Berkeley M.E.T.
Description: "$10M+ revenue, high 7-figure EBITDA"
Contact: [email protected]
Kavitha Prasad in SF (Co-Founder @ Stealth AI Startup)
Role: Member of Founding Team, VP Business @ SiMa.ai (2.5 yrs)
Other Experience: GM @ AWS, VP & GM Datacenter AI & Cloud @ Intel, Director Engineering @ Xilinx
Description: Stealth since 11/25
Contact: [email protected]
Victor Bittorf in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: Sr Principal AI Architect @ SiMa.ai (1.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Tech Lead Staff Applied Research Scientist @ Facebook, Sr SWE @ Google Brain, SWE @ Alation, SWE @ Cloudera
Description: "AI Agents are the future." Left SiMa 4/24
Conversion, a marketing platform where AI agents automate campaign work, raised $30M per their Founder on X. "The first marketing platform where AI agents do the work and your team does strategy."
Charlie He in SF (Co-Founder @ Contour)
Role: 1st FTE & Head of Engineering @ Conversion (4 yrs)
Other Experience: SWE @ Cisco, UC Berkeley EECS
Description: "Helping implementation teams get to value with AI agents"
Obinna A. in US (Founder & CTO @ Beacon Health)
Role: Product Engineering @ Conversion (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Founder @ sidekic AI, Z Fellow, SWE @ LinkedIn, UT Austin BS Physics
Description: "Helping primary care doctors serve their patients"
