Today’s Top Talent Pools

Mistral AI, a French AI lab building open-source and commercial large language models, is in early talks to raise around €3B at a €20B valuation, per Bloomberg. Founded by ex-DeepMind and Meta researchers. Previous rounds totaled ~$1.1B from a16z, Lightspeed, General Catalyst, Salesforce, and others.

  1. Wendy Shang in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Research Scientist @ Mistral AI (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: MTS @ Character.AI, Research Engineer @ DeepMind, Vision SWE @ Meta, PhD @ University of Amsterdam

    3. Description: Left Mistral AI on 4/25 with no updates

  2. Florian Bressand in Paris (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Chief Business Officer @ Mistral AI (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: COO @ Mirakl ($955M raised from Silver Lake, Permira, Bain Capital; $3.5B valuation), Partner @ McKinsey

    3. Description: Left Mistral 9/24

  3. Leocadia Barcena in Madrid (Stealth)

    1. Role: Engineering @ Mistral AI (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: AI Engineer @ Google DeepMind, Principal Engineer @ Sana, Engineering Manager @ Klarna

    3. Description: Stealth since 5/25

  4. Adrien Reynaud in Paris (Stealth)

    1. Role: Mistral Compute @ Mistral AI (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Sr Director Energy @ Crusoe, Investment Director @ Antin Infrastructure Partners, Officer @ Marine Nationale, HEC Paris + Sciences Po

    3. Description: Stealth since 4/26

  5. Fabien Niel in Paris (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Applied AI Scientist @ Mistral AI (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: CTO & Co-Founder @ Quantiq ($2.8M seed), Postdoc @ CNRS, Sorbonne PhD Physics

    3. Description: "Independent Researcher" since 5/26

  6. Elaine Kim in UK (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Model Behavior Architect @ Mistral AI (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Model Teacher @ OpenAI, Stanford BA, Stanford Law

    3. Description: Left Mistral on 12/25. Status says "Coming soon"

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  7. Gregory Linford in Paris (Stealth)

    1. Role: SWE @ Mistral AI (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Tech Lead @ Proton, Senior SWE @ Amazon

    3. Description: Stealth since 3/26

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  8. Jessica Chudnovsky in SF (Student)

    1. Role: Research Scientist @ Mistral AI (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: AI Research @ Stanford SAIL, CS Teaching Assistant @ Stanford

    3. Description: Stanford MS student (class of '26)

  9. Misha Jessel Kenyon in London (Stealth)

    1. Role: GTM Lead, UK @ Mistral AI (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Major Account Director @ Zscaler

    3. Description: "Building something new"

    4. Contact: [email protected]

Morpho, an open credit network, raised $175M from Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, a16z, Apollo, Circle, and VanEck.

  1. Hugo Danet in Paris (Co-Founder & CTO @ Vocca)

    1. Role: Founding Member @ Morpho Labs (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: VC Analyst @ IRIS, Télécom Paris + HEC Paris

    3. Description: "AI agents and software for healthcare providers to automate operational work"

    4. Contact: [email protected], GitHub

PointFive, an NYC-based AI and cloud spend management startup, raised $60M Series B. Accel led, joined by Salesforce Ventures, Entrée Capital, Perpetual Growth, Vesey Ventures, Sheva Ventures, and Index Ventures.

  1. Ilai Fallach in Tel Aviv (Co-Founder & VP R&D @ Act)

    1. Role: VP of Engineering @ PointFive (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer & VP Eng @ Velocity ($22M from Insight Partners, Hetz, Greycroft), Chief SW Architect @ IntSights ($335M acq by Rapid7), Co-Founder & CTO @ StoreSmarts (acq by Retail IQ), Tel Aviv University BS CS

    3. Description: "Building... Stay tuned."

    4. Contact: [email protected]

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