Today’s Top Talent Pools

RunPod, a Newark-based AI developer cloud, raised $100M at a $1B valuation led by Summit Partners.

  1. Justin Merrell in Charlotte (Co-Founder @ Agentflare)

    1. Role: Founding Engineer & Chief of Staff @ RunPod (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: CEO & Co-Founder @ Recursion.Space

    3. Description: "Agent observability"

    4. Contact: Site

  2. Jacob Wright in SF (Founder @ MadeThis)

    1. Role: Head of FDE & SWE (#14) @ RunPod (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Sister Glow Up (acquired, 2M+ users, Top 50 App Store), Co-Founder & CTO @ Proxy ($1M+ ARR, backed by Soma Capital)

    3. Description: "The autonomous business platform — build or automate your business with a team of AI employees"

    4. Funding: YC F25

    5. Contact: [email protected]

  3. Jörg D. in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of ML Deployment @ RunPod (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: ML Deployment @ Cruise, COO @ Brium, Research Engineer @ Google Brain, Research Engineer @ Facebook AI Research, Cornell BS Math + CS

    3. Description: "AI infrastructure for production systems — inference, deployment, reliability, workload orchestration"

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  4. Max Forsey in SF (Founder & CEO @ Daso)

    1. Role: Head of DevRel & Applied ML Engineer @ RunPod (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ Sameday (YC W23, AI Grant Batch 1), Venture Partner @ Contrary, BYU ML

    3. Description: "A new kind of computer for kids — AI-native, local-first, family-first"

  5. Prabuddha Bastola in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: SWE @ RunPod (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founder @ Partabot, CEO & Founder @ Neural Logic, SWE @ Tesla

    3. Description: "Serving dexterity OTA to multiple billion dollar hardware companies"

Twelve Labs, an SF-based video intelligence company, raised $100M in Series B funding. NEA and Naver Ventures led, joined by Amazon, Radical Ventures, Korea Investment Partners, Index Ventures, Quadrille Capital, and Red Bull Ventures.

  1. Jiwoon Won in Atlanta (Stealth)

    1. Role: Founding Engineer @ Twelve Labs (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Lead SWE @ ROK Ministry of National Defense

    3. Description: Stealth since 10/25

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  2. Paul George in US (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Staff Research Engineer @ Twelve Labs (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Director of Engineering @ Perpetua, Senior ML Engineer @ Opendoor, FDE @ Palantir, Cornell PhD ECE

    3. Description: Left Twelve Labs 10/25

Moment, the AI operating system for investment management, raised $78M Series C led by Index Ventures, with a16z and Avra.

  1. Rodrigo Weilg in US (Co-Founder @ Portal)

    1. Role: SWE @ Moment (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: 1st FTE & Founding Engineer @ Default ($20M from 8VC, Craft), Product Designer @ OCTI

    3. Description: "Real-time in one line. Instantly add live features to any app. No maintainance required.”

    4. Contact: Site, Twitter

Build.inc, a two-year-old New York startup that uses AI to automate due diligence for infrastructure and data center projects, raised $8.5M in seed funding. Index Ventures led, joined by Pebblebed, Puzzle Ventures, and Tiny.vc, plus angels including OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar and Blackstone CTO John Stecher.

  1. Matthew Coombes in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Founding Engineer @ Build.inc (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Operations @ Ninja, Expansion Manager @ Gorillas, Cambridge BA

    3. Description: Left Build.inc 5/26

    4. Contact: [email protected]

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