This Week’s Top Talent Pools

Prime Intellect, which provides compute and a full-stack RL framework for enterprises to train their own AI agents, raised a $130M Series A at a $1B valuation led by Radical Ventures, joined by Nvidia Ventures, Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, Iconiq, and angels including Aravind Srinivas, Aaron Levie, and Brendan Foody. The company reports a $100M annualized revenue run rate.

  1. Jack Min Ong in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Founding Research Engineer @ Prime Intellect (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Machine Learning Engineer @ Jina AI

    3. Description: "On sabbatical to find the bottleneck of human progress"

  2. Manveer B. in US (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Head of Product & Head of Protocol @ Prime Intellect (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ ResearchHub, Founding Engineer @ Arise Money

    3. Description: Left Prime Intellect on 4/26

    4. Contact: Site

  3. Matthew Di Ferrante in Shanghai (Founder @ Axiom Robotics)

    1. Role: Founding Protocol Engineer @ Prime Intellect (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder @ Zero Knowledge Labs, Security Engineer @ Ethereum Foundation, Applied Research & Security @ Celestia

    3. Description: "Working on intelligence stack for robotics"

    4. Contact: [email protected]

Helsing, the Munich defense-AI company, last raised ~€600M at a ~€12B valuation led by Prima Materia (6/25), making it Europe's most valuable defense startup. Senior AI, product, and deployed-engineering talent is now leaving to found.

  1. Cedric Archambeau in Berlin (Stealth)

    1. Role: Director of AI @ Helsing (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Principal Applied Scientist @ AWS (Chief Scientist, Amazon SageMaker), Applied Science Manager @ Amazon, Research Area Manager @ Xerox Research Centre Europe, UCLouvain PhD

    3. Description: "CAIO of a European sovereign AI company in stealth"

  2. Keesiu Wong in Munich (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Product Manager @ Helsing (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Design AI (acq by Helsing)

    3. Description: Left Helsing in '25

  3. Gonçalo Silva Santos in London (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Engineering @ Helsing (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ SolveAI ($50M from GSV), Software Engineering Manager @ Citadel, Tech Lead @ Palantir

    3. Description: Left SolveAI 6/26 and "Building new stuff"

  4. Conrad Edwards in London (Stealth)

    1. Role: Deployed AI Engineer @ Helsing (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Technical Lead @ Palantir, Stanford BS CS

    3. Description: Stealth since 8/25

  5. Lorenzo Collodi in London (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: AI Research Engineer @ Helsing (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Senior Research Engineer @ Isomorphic Labs, AI Researcher @ Bending Spoons

    3. Description: Left Isomorphic Labs on 4/26

  6. Florian Hendrich in Munich (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Director AI @ Helsing (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CTO @ HELLSICHT

    3. Description: Left Helsing in '25 — joined at founding (3/21)

Whatnot (backed by a16z and CapitalG) acquired Shaped, the AI real-time ranking and recommendations platform (YC W22, backed by Madrona), announced 7/16.

  1. Daniel Camilleri in Melbourne (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Co-Founder & COO @ Shaped (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Product Research @ Afterpay, UX Research Lead @ Uber

    3. Description: "Figuring out what's next"

    4. Contact: Twitter

Valarian (fka Worldr), the London data-sovereignty software company for governments and enterprises, raised a $50M Series A led by NEA.

  1. Dmitry Maskaliou in London (CEO & Co-Founder @ TMKR AI)

    1. Role: Co-Founder & COO @ Valarian (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: General Counsel @ Maskaliou

    3. Description: "The rights layer for identity-based AI production"

  2. Michael Antipin in London (Co-Founder & CTO @ TMKR AI)

    1. Role: VP of Engineering @ Valarian (6 yrs)

    2. Description: "The rights layer for identity-based AI production"

TerraFirma, the Austin construction-autonomy company retrofitting excavators, dozers, and loaders into autonomous machines, raised $115M including a $100M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, with Bain Capital Ventures, Glade Brook, BANNER, Saga, Trust Ventures, Definition, PEAK6, Magnetar, and Ravelin. Founders Noah Schochet and Noah McGuinness met at Princeton and built together at SpaceX — and five early teammates have already peeled off.

  1. Cyrus Bohn in Berlin (Co-Founder @ Timper)

    1. Role: Interim COO @ TerraFirma (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Operations & Business Planning, Central Europe @ Tesla, Senior Consultant @ Deloitte, INSEAD MBA

    3. Description: "The AI operating partner for real estate developers"

Microagi, a Munich-founded robotics-deployment company, announced a $55M seed led by Hummingbird on 7/16, joined by Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global, and redalpine.

  1. Daniel Gros in Aachen (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Co-Founder & CAIO @ MicroAGI (<1 yr)

    2. Description: Left MicroAGI 5/26

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