Today’s Top Talent Pools

Poetic (formerly Forge), building software that learns like AI but runs like code, raised $50M Series A at a $500M valuation. Kleiner Perkins led, with Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and OpenAI also participating.

  1. Jason Wu in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Founding Engineer @ Poetic (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Engineering @ Mine/Fizz, Sr SWE @ Snackpass, Yale BS CS

    3. Description: Left Poetic 5/26

  2. Shreshth Rajan in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: 1st FTE & Founding Engineer @ Poetic (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Pillar ($23M from a16z, Neo), Harvard BA Math + Philosophy

    3. Description: Left Pillar 2025

    4. Contact: [email protected], Site

Orbital, a space infrastructure company building AI data centers in Low Earth Orbit, raised $5M pre-seed. a16z speedrun led, with Basis Set, Human Element, Wayfinder, Antler, Anti Fund, Ascent, Feld Ventures, and others participating. Founded by Euwyn Poon, previously co-founder of Spin (acq by Ford for $100M).

  1. Derrick Ko in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: CEO & Co-Founder @ Spin (acq by Ford for $100M, $8M raised; Orbital Founder's previous co-founder)

    2. Other Experience: CEO & Co-Founder @ Matchday ($21M from Greylock, Courtside, HackVC, Messi's Play Time), PM Growth @ Lyft, Founding Engineer @ Kicksend (YC S11, acq by Lyft), Co-Founder @ Yum.sg, Purdue BS CE

    3. Description: “Making games with AI agents”

    4. Contact: [email protected], Twitter, Site

NinjaOne, an Austin-based IT management platform, raised $400M Series C extension at a $12.3B post-money valuation. Mostly secondary. Wellington Management, TVG, BDT & MSD Partners, Sequoia, Iconiq, Hedosophia, NEA, CapitalG, and Pinegrove Opportunity Partners.

  1. Robert Gibbons in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: CTO @ NinjaOne (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: CTO @ Datto (IPO → acq by Kaseya for $6.2B), CTO @ Casana ($56M from GC, Matrix), Fordham JD

    3. Description: Left NinjaOne 3/25

Stepful, a medical worker training platform, raised $55M Series C. Oak HC/FT led, joined by Foresite Capital, Hearst Ventures, Citi Impact Fund, and insiders SemperVirens, YC, Intermountain Health, and ECMC Education Impact Fund. YC S21.

  1. Edoardo Serra in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Co-Founder & CTO @ Stepful (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE Manager @ Apple, Co-Founder & CTO @ SATISFLY (acq by Travelstart)

    3. Description: Left Stepful 7/25

Orbital Industries, a London-based AI-driven infrastructure startup, raised a $50M Series B led by Plural, with NVentures, Radical Ventures, Compound, and Fly Ventures.

  1. Adeesh Kolluru in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of AI @ Radical AI (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: ML Research @ Samsung Semiconductor, ML Research @ Orbital Industries, Research Scientist @ Meta FAIR, Research Intern @ Columbia, CMU PhD Chemical Engineering, IIT Delhi BTech

    3. Description: "AI for Scientific Discovery"

    4. Contact: [email protected], Site

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