Today’s Top Talent Pools

Fox agreed to buy Roku in a roughly $25 billion deal, combining its Tubi, Fox One, and Fox Nation streaming businesses with the largest connected-TV streaming platform.

  1. Sandro Catanzaro in Boston (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of Publisher Media Strategy @ Roku (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: PM @ The Trade Desk, Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ DataXu (invented RTB, $88M raised; acq by Roku for $150M), Consultant @ Bain, MIT Sloan + MS Aero

    3. Description: Stealth since 1/26

  2. Adam Markey in Boston (Stealth)

    1. Role: Dir Product Management, Ad Platform @ Roku (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Director Product @ The Trade Desk, VP Product @ DataXu ($87.5M raised; acq by Roku for $150M), VP Product @ Zaius (now Optimizely), Consultant @ Deloitte

    3. Description: Stealth since 1/26

  3. Abhijit Pol in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: VP Engineering, Advertising @ Roku (9 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Monetization Engineering @ Pinterest, Founding Engineer @ Rocket Fuel ($76M from Summit Partners, NASDAQ IPO)

    3. Description: Stealth since 4/26

  4. James (Jay) Wong in NYC (Founder @ Bamboo)

    1. Role: Manager, Vertical Product Lead @ Roku (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founder @ ado, Dir Innovation @ Kepler Group

    3. Description: "Building Bamboo" — marketing AI agents

Salesforce is acquiring Fin (formerly Intercom), the AI customer service company whose software resolves customer queries across chat, email, WhatsApp, phone, and Slack, for about $3.6 billion.

  1. George Ezenna in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Product Engineer @ Intercom (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ CloudTrucks ($180M+ raised from Tiger Global, Caffeinated Capital), MIT CS + Cambridge

    3. Description: Stealth since 5/26

  2. Esther O. in Dublin (Stealth)

    1. Role: Sr Product Engineer @ Intercom (5.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ Tress (YC W17, 1M+ MAU)

    3. Description: Stealth since 10/25

    4. Contact: GitHub

  3. Chuka Ebi in London (Stealth)

    1. Role: Product Engineer @ Intercom (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: AI Engineering @ Kular, Founder @ Kana, EiR @ Entrepreneur First

    3. Description: Stealth since 5/26

Sarvam AI, an Indian AI model and infrastructure developer, raised $234M at a $1.5B valuation. HCLTech led ($150.7M for 10.5%), joined by Bessemer Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, and Peak XV Partners.

  1. Ria Mirchandani in SF (Founder & CEO @ GoldMind.ai)

    1. Role: Founding PM @ Sarvam AI (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Product Lead @ WhatsApp Payments, Sr PM @ Credit Karma, PM @ Microsoft Teams, SPC, Brown BA CS

    3. Description: "Building the quality infrastructure for AI"

  2. Sheetal Chauhan in SF (Co-Founder @ Compose)

    1. Role: Founding Team / Product & GTM Leader @ Sarvam AI (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Sr PM Lead @ Microsoft

    3. Description: "Compose is building the creative suite for the AI-native era.”

  3. Manas Bam in SF (Co-Founder & CEO @ Kairos Computer)

    1. Role: MTS @ Sarvam AI (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: MTS @ Delphi

    3. Description: "Meet Kairos Your personal AI intern Talk to it like a person. It works like one too.”

  4. Kaustubh Bansal in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Product @ Sarvam (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: EIR @ Entrepreneur First, Strategy @ EY

    3. Description: "AI-native service department for car dealerships"

  5. Atishay Ganesh in Bangalore (Stealth)

    1. Role: Founding Engineer @ Sarvam AI (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Quant Research Associate @ Morgan Stanley

    3. Description: Stealth since 12/25

  6. Nischith Shadagopan in Bangalore (Stealth)

    1. Role: Founding Member @ Sarvam AI (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Research Intern @ Microsoft & CMU

    3. Description: Stealth since 5/25

  7. Vinod Ganesan in Chennai (Stealth)

    1. Role: Founding Member @ Sarvam AI (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Postdoc Researcher @ Microsoft, IIT Madras PhD CS

    3. Description: Stealth since 5/25

Bland, an SF-based voice AI startup, raised $50M in Series C funding. Dell Technologies Capital led, joined by HubSpot Ventures, Archerman Capital, Tribeca Venture Partners and insiders Emergence Capital, Upfront Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, and YC.

  1. Marcus N. in SF (Founder @ Arklow)

    1. Role: Founding Eng @ Bland AI (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Replit, Founder @ Startup, EIR @ Entrepreneur First

    3. Description: Stealth since 2/26

    4. Contact: Site, Twitter

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