Today’s Talent Pools

Fragile, a startup powering consumer hardware subscription programs, raised ~$100M from Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, and Restive Ventures.

  1. Thomas Kreek in SF (Co-Founder @ Stealth Startup)

    1. Role: Co-Founder @ Fragile (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: CEO @ LumenEd, Global PM @ Uber

    3. Description: Co-Founder @ Stealth Startup since 10/25

    4. Contact: Site

  2. Jack Good in SF (Board Director @ Fragile)

    1. Role: President @ Fragile (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Chief of Staff @ Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund, SWE @ OpenStore and Microsoft, UVA BS CS

    3. Description: Transitioned to Board Director @ Fragile on 1/26

  3. Jayson Hurst in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: 1st FTE & Product/Engineering @ Fragile (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Executive Director @ Startup Shell, SWE @ Qualtrics

    3. Description: Left Fragile 3/26

  4. Darshil Patel in SF (Potential Founder)

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

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Pull (backed by Quiet Capital), SWE @ Broadcast, Application Security Developer @ Shopify

    3. Description: “Buiding in Fintech”

  5. Nabeela I. in DC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: 4th SWE @ Fragile (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Lingo AI, SWE Intern @ Bloomberg

    3. 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.

  1. Anaiy Somalwar in SF (Co-Founder @ Stealth)

    1. Role: ML Engineer @ SiMa.ai (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: ML Researcher @ BAIR, Venture Associate @ Foundation Capital, Venture Fellow @ Pear VC, US Chess Team Member, UC Berkeley M.E.T.

    3. Description: "$10M+ revenue, high 7-figure EBITDA"

  2. Kavitha Prasad in SF (Co-Founder @ Stealth AI Startup)

    1. Role: Member of Founding Team, VP Business @ SiMa.ai (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: GM @ AWS, VP & GM Datacenter AI & Cloud @ Intel, Director Engineering @ Xilinx

    3. Description: Stealth since 11/25

  3. Victor Bittorf in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Sr Principal AI Architect @ SiMa.ai (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Tech Lead Staff Applied Research Scientist @ Facebook, Sr SWE @ Google Brain, SWE @ Alation, SWE @ Cloudera

    3. 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."

  1. Charlie He in SF (Co-Founder @ Contour)

    1. Role: 1st FTE & Head of Engineering @ Conversion (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Cisco, UC Berkeley EECS

    3. Description: "Helping implementation teams get to value with AI agents"

  2. Obinna A. in US (Founder & CTO @ Beacon Health)

    1. Role: Product Engineering @ Conversion (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder @ sidekic AI, Z Fellow, SWE @ LinkedIn, UT Austin BS Physics

    3. Description: "Helping primary care doctors serve their patients"

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