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.
Sandro Catanzaro in Boston (Stealth)
Role: Head of Publisher Media Strategy @ Roku (3 yrs)
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
Description: Stealth since 1/26
Adam Markey in Boston (Stealth)
Role: Dir Product Management, Ad Platform @ Roku (4.5 yrs)
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
Description: Stealth since 1/26
Abhijit Pol in SF (Stealth)
Role: VP Engineering, Advertising @ Roku (9 yrs)
Other Experience: Head of Monetization Engineering @ Pinterest, Founding Engineer @ Rocket Fuel ($76M from Summit Partners, NASDAQ IPO)
Description: Stealth since 4/26
James (Jay) Wong in NYC (Founder @ Bamboo)
Role: Manager, Vertical Product Lead @ Roku (3 yrs)
Other Experience: Founder @ ado, Dir Innovation @ Kepler Group
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.
George Ezenna in SF (Stealth)
Role: Product Engineer @ Intercom (2 yrs)
Other Experience: Co-Founder @ CloudTrucks ($180M+ raised from Tiger Global, Caffeinated Capital), MIT CS + Cambridge
Description: Stealth since 5/26
Esther O. in Dublin (Stealth)
Role: Sr Product Engineer @ Intercom (5.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ Tress (YC W17, 1M+ MAU)
Description: Stealth since 10/25
Contact: GitHub
Chuka Ebi in London (Stealth)
Role: Product Engineer @ Intercom (2 yrs)
Other Experience: AI Engineering @ Kular, Founder @ Kana, EiR @ Entrepreneur First
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.
Ria Mirchandani in SF (Founder & CEO @ GoldMind.ai)
Role: Founding PM @ Sarvam AI (1 yr)
Other Experience: Product Lead @ WhatsApp Payments, Sr PM @ Credit Karma, PM @ Microsoft Teams, SPC, Brown BA CS
Description: "Building the quality infrastructure for AI"
Contact: [email protected]
Sheetal Chauhan in SF (Co-Founder @ Compose)
Role: Founding Team / Product & GTM Leader @ Sarvam AI (1.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Sr PM Lead @ Microsoft
Description: "Compose is building the creative suite for the AI-native era.”
Manas Bam in SF (Co-Founder & CEO @ Kairos Computer)
Role: MTS @ Sarvam AI (<1 yr)
Other Experience: MTS @ Delphi
Description: "Meet Kairos Your personal AI intern Talk to it like a person. It works like one too.”
Contact: [email protected]
Kaustubh Bansal in SF (Stealth)
Role: Product @ Sarvam (1 yr)
Other Experience: EIR @ Entrepreneur First, Strategy @ EY
Description: "AI-native service department for car dealerships"
Contact: [email protected]
Atishay Ganesh in Bangalore (Stealth)
Role: Founding Engineer @ Sarvam AI (2.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Quant Research Associate @ Morgan Stanley
Description: Stealth since 12/25
Nischith Shadagopan in Bangalore (Stealth)
Role: Founding Member @ Sarvam AI (2 yrs)
Other Experience: Research Intern @ Microsoft & CMU
Description: Stealth since 5/25
Vinod Ganesan in Chennai (Stealth)
Role: Founding Member @ Sarvam AI (2 yrs)
Other Experience: Postdoc Researcher @ Microsoft, IIT Madras PhD CS
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.
Marcus N. in SF (Founder @ Arklow)
