Top Talent Pools of the Day

OpenRouter, the LLM-aggregation platform co-founded by founding OpenSea CTO Alex Atallah, has discussed a sale that could value it in the billions (last valued at $1.3B by investors including CapitalG), per The Information (7/20). The talent tie runs through OpenSea, the NFT marketplace Atallah co-founded and scaled to $4B+ monthly volume.

  1. Nadav Hollander in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: CTO @ OpenSea (3.5 yrs; OpenRouter founder’s previous company)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ Dharma ($7M from Polychain, Coinbase Ventures, Passport → acq by OpenSea), SWE @ Google, Stanford BS CS

    3. Description: "Something new”

    4. Contact: Twitter

Humanoid, the London-based humanoid robotics company, raised a $152M Series A at a $1.4B valuation on 7/22, led by Prime Movers Lab, joined by Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital, and Aglaé Ventures. Its 2025 senior cohort has largely departed to found new ventures.

  1. Randall Briggs in Boston (Founder @ Steel Bot)

    1. Role: Senior Mechanical Robotics Engineer @ Humanoid (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ GardenByte, Research Assistant @ MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab, MIT BS & MS Mechanical Engineering

    3. Description: "Affordable American humanoids"

    4. Contact: Site

  2. Mark Marney in London (Founder & CEO @ Optimising Technologies)

    1. Role: Operations Manager @ Humanoid (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Robotics Lab Manager @ Google DeepMind, R&D Manager @ Pickering Electronics, Avionics Technician @ Royal Navy

    3. Description: "Testing and validating humanoid robots and autonomous systems so enterprises, insurers, and regulators can actually trust them"

    4. Contact: [email protected]

    5. Funding: Raising a £500K pre-seed, targeting a £5M round within 12 months.

  3. Andrey Shelomentsev in London (Co-Founder @ Splatica)

    1. Role: Chief Business Development Officer @ Humanoid (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Strategic Partnerships @ JLR, Strategic Projects Lead @ Arrival, VP of Strategic Partnerships @ WayRay, CEO & Co-Founder @ APIO

    3. Description: "Infrastructure for training Physical AI models based on physically accurate photorealistic splat scenes"

    4. Contact: Site

  4. Andrey Belogolovy in Portland (Stealth)

    1. Role: Lead of Teleoperation @ Humanoid (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Transformation Architecture & Design Manager @ Intel, Assistant Professor @ SUAI, SUAI PhD Electrical Engineering

    3. Description: Stealth since 10/25

  5. Alex Raymond in Cambridge (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Head of Software Platform @ Humanoid (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: VP of Engineering @ NavLive, Co-Founder & CTO @ Autohuman, Head of AI Engineering @ Doppl.ai, Engine Team Lead @ Speechmatics, Cambridge PhD Computer Science

    3. Description: Left Humanoid 4/25

Sila Nanotechnologies, the Alameda-based maker of silicon-carbon anode materials, raised $300M on 7/22 co-led by Atreides Management and Sutter Hill Ventures, joined by 8VC, Bessemer, Matrix Partners, and T. Rowe Price.

  1. Aayush Shah in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Head of Product @ Sila Nanotechnologies (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Product Program Manager @ Carbon, Application Development Lead @ Dow, University of Michigan PhD Macromolecular Science & Engineering

    3. Description: "Exploring new ventures" since 3/26

  2. Ian Naccarella in US (Co-Founder @ 83 Sciences)

    1. Role: Strategy Manager @ Sila Nanotechnologies (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Entrepreneurial Fellow @ MIT, Consultant @ BCG, HBS MBA, Stanford MS Chemical Engineering

    3. Description: "Uses AI to mine discarded experimental data and drive scientific breakthroughs"

    4. Funding: Backed by YC S26.

  3. Gaurav Jha in SF (Co-Founder & CEO @ Niobia AI)

    1. Role: Staff Materials Development Engineer @ Sila Nanotechnologies (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: EIR @ Antler, Battery Engineer @ Lyten, Process Engineer @ Intel, UC Irvine PhD Materials Chemistry

    3. Description: "Agentic advanced manufacturing intelligence" — AI agents for root-cause and process intelligence in battery manufacturing

  4. Alex Fritzinger-Pittman in SF (Co-Founder & CEO @ Redwagon)

    1. Role: Senior Technical Program Manager @ Sila Nanotechnologies (10 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Senior Manager @ Twelve, Stanford BS Mechanical Engineering

    3. Description: "The context layer for the $16T capital project industry"

    4. Contact: Calendly

  5. Saba Mohsin in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Technical Program Manager @ Sila Nanotechnologies (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Technical Program Manager @ Applied Materials, Senior Staff Engineer @ QuSwami, Staff Controls Engineer @ Bloom Energy, MIT BS & Stanford MS Mechanical Engineering

    3. Description: Stealth since 1/25

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