This Week’s Top Talent Pools

Ramp, a 7-year-old NYC fintech providing corporate cards, expense management, procurement, and AI-powered financial operations, raised $750M at a $44B valuation. ICONIQ, GIC, and Ontario Teachers' co-led, joined by Goldman Sachs, D.E. Shaw, Morgan Stanley, Generation Investment Mgmt, Insight, BroadLight, Founders Fund, Lightspeed, D1, T. Rowe Price, General Catalyst, Thrive, Coatue, Khosla, and others. Over $1B annualized revenue. $200B annualized purchase volume. 70,000+ customers.

  1. TK Kong in NYC (Stealth @ Concept)

    1. Role: 20th FTE & Ramp Labs Lead & Head of Procurement @ Ramp (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Venue (Sequoia-backed, acq by Ramp), Product Designer @ Facebook, Cornell BS

    3. Description: "We've been heads down building personalized AI coworkers for every business. We’re growing our team of researchers, designers, and IMO gold medalists. Reach out if you're interested!”

    4. Contact: Twitter

  2. Calix Huang in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Engineering @ Ramp (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: 13th FTE & MTS @ Mercor, Co-Founder @ Stealth (YC W23), Founder @ Hours (acq by Fiveable, 2M+ users), Head of Special Projects @ Fiveable

    3. Description: Stealth since 3/26

    4. Contact: Site

  3. Pablo Meier in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Founding Engineer & Engineering Director @ Ramp (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Lyft, Eng Manager @ ClassPass, SWE @ Google, SWE @ Adobe, Brown BS CS + BA Music

    3. Description: “it's ya boi, cooking things up”

    4. Contact: Site

  4. Will Ye in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Sr SWE & Founding Member of Applied AI @ Ramp (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: 1st Employee & SWE @ Cohere ($4M from YC, BoxGroup, Initializaed —> acq by Ramp), SWE @ AWS, Duke BS CS

    3. Description: Left Ramp 2/26

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  5. Roland Shen in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Engineering Tech Lead @ Ramp (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Engineering @ US Treasury, 1st Employee @ Fig (acq by AWS), Co-Founder @ Imprint

    3. Description: "Building something new"

  6. Young Kim in NYC (Co-Founder @ Melius)

    1. Role: Director of Engineering @ Ramp (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ Venue (Sequoia-backed, acq by Ramp), SWE @ Facebook, Cornell MEng + BS CS

    3. Description: “Be the creative director. Let agents be your team. Brief our agent Mel, watch the work assemble, and steer any prompt until the output lands exactly as you imagined.”

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  7. Kevin Sheurs in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Director SWE @ Ramp (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: 1st Eng Hire & Sr Director SWE @ Bowery Farming ($687M from GV, General Catalyst, Fidelity, Temasek), CTO @ VHX (acq by Vimeo), Director SWE @ Vimeo

    3. Description: Left Ramp 4/25

  8. Max Allen in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Staff SWE & Founding Fraud Team Eng @ Ramp (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Neeva, SWE, Venture Partner @ Contrary Capital, MIT BS CS

    3. Description: Co-Founder @ Stealth since 10/25

  9. Ariel Langer in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: 40th Employee & Staff SWE @ Ramp (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ ModernFi, UC Berkeley BS Data Science

    3. Description: CTO @ Stealth since 4/25

    4. Contact: Site

  10. Daniel Jeng in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Staff SWE @ Ramp (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Zingage ($13M seed from Bessemer, TQ Ventures, SPC, WndrCo), Sr Engineer @ Bilt Rewards, Sr Manager SWE @ Paribus, SWE @ Bloomberg, UT Austin BS EE

    3. Description: Left Zingage 3/26

    4. Contact: GitHub

  11. Jay Goel in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Staff SWE @ Ramp (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ Scratch Data (YC S21), Sr Eng Manager @ Frame.io, Eng Manager @ Squarespace

    3. Description: Left Ramp 6/26

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]

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]

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

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