Today’s Talent Pool

Iterative Health, a clinical trial infrastructure startup, raised $77M in Series C funding. Intrepid Growth Partners and GV led, joined by EDBI, Insight Partners, and Obvious Ventures.

  1. Sloane A. in US (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Founding Team @ Iterative Health (8.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: MIT Sloan MBA

    3. Description: Left Iterative Health 4/26

  2. Clive Saha in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Principal Software Engineer @ Iterative Health (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Early Team & Chief Software Architect @ Komodo Health ($500M from A16Z, Tiger, Coatue), Sr SWE @ Google, Cornell MEng EE & BE CS

    3. Description: Left Iterative Health 3/26

  3. Brice Wu in San Diego (Co-Founder & CCO @ Tafel Labs)

    1. Role: CPO @ Iterative Health (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: CRO @ Airframe, CTO @ Komodo Health ($500M from A16Z, Tiger, Coatue), Berkeley MS, Cornell BS Materials Science

    3. Description: “The definitive ground truth on battery cells.”

  4. Wendy S. in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Technical Program Manager II @ Iterative Health (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Elivio Health, Clinical Data PM @ RapidAI, Columbia MS Bioengineering, UC Berkeley BS Cognitive Science

    3. Description: Stealth since 2026

Cognition AI, a two-year-old San Francisco startup that automates software engineering tasks including code generation, debugging, testing, and deployment through an autonomous AI engineer, is reportedly in the market to raise a round at a $25 billion valuation. The company raised $400M at $10.2B in September 2025 led by Founders Fund after acquiring Windsurf.

  1. Daniel Chiu in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Product & Engineering @ Cognition (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Product & Engineering @ Watershed, Trading Intern @ Jane Street, SWE @ Figma, Harvard BA CS

    3. Description: Left Cognition 12/25

  2. HE (Jimmy) Zhang in SF (Stealth)

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

    2. Other Experience: Product Engineering Lead @ Windsurf, SWE @ Tesla, Tsinghua MEng & BE CS

    3. Description: Stealth since 11/25

  3. Lance Fuchia in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Engineering @ Cognition (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Engineering @ Netflix, Co-Founder & CEO @ AccoAI, Neo Scholar, UMich BS CS

    3. Description: Left Cognition 2026

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  4. Connor Fogarty in US (Student)

    1. Role: Research Intern @ Cognition (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Flint, SWE @ bolt.new, Co-Director @ TreeHacks, Stanford BS CS

    3. Description: Stanford class of ‘27

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  5. Joe Li in SF (Student)

    1. Role: ML Research Intern @ Cognition (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: ML Research @ Nous Research, Researcher @ CMU, USA IOI Training Camp, Valedictorian @ Harker

    3. Description: Stanford class of ‘28

  6. Shreyasi Mandal in Manchester (Student)

    1. Role: Intelligence Engineer @ Cognition (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: IIT Kanpur BTech CS

    3. Description: Left Cognition 1/26. University of Manchester class of ‘26

  7. Matthew Chen in Cambridge (Student)

    1. Role: SWE @ Cognition & Research Engineer @ Windsurf (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Quant Trader @ Five Rings, ML Researcher @ MIT, US Presidential Scholar

    3. Description: MIT class of ‘26

  8. Jude Partovi in SF (Student)

    1. Role: Deployed Engineer @ Cognition (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Neo Scholar, SWE @ Bubble

    3. Description: Harvard class of ‘27

  9. Jin Wong in SF (Student)

    1. Role: Deployed Engineer Intern @ Cognition (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Venture Fellow @ Pear VC, President MIT Trust Center for Entrepreneurship, President MIT Capital Partners

    3. Description: MIT class of ‘26

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  10. Gavin Ye in US (Student)

    1. Role: Model Training Research Intern @ Cognition & Windsurf (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Research Fellow @ Kempner Institute Harvard, ISEF 2024 2nd Place

    3. Description: Harvard class of ‘28

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