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Fluidstack, the AI-datacenter builder behind Anthropic's $50B Texas and New York buildout, is in talks to raise $1B at an $18B valuation, potentially led by Jane Street — more than doubling the ~$7.5B mark from its December round led by Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness (with the Collison brothers, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross).

  1. Peter Francis in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Co-Founder @ Fluidstack (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Project Lead @ AI Safety Projects, Durham PPE

    3. Description: Stealth since 11/25

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  2. Reaal Khalil in UK (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Co-Founder @ Fluidstack (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Head of DeFi @ Nickel Digital Asset Management, SWE @ Bloomberg, Oxford MPhys Physics

    3. Description: Left Nickel Digital 11/22, no updates since

    4. Contact: Site, [email protected]

  3. Jörg Doku in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: MTS @ Fluidstack (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: COO @ Brium, Head of ML Deployment @ RunPod, ML Deployment @ Cruise, Research Engineer @ Google Brain, Research Engineer @ Meta AI (FAIR), Cornell BS Math & CS

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

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

  4. Vignesh Raju in SF (Founder & CEO @ Aran Industries)

    1. Role: Director, Power Systems @ Fluidstack (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Engineering Manager, Power Systems @ Electric Hydrogen, Senior Mechanical Design Engineer @ Tesla

    3. Description: "Aran Industries is accelerating the design and engineering of data centers, turning a process that takes months to years—completing it in weeks.”

  5. Fangfei Chen in US (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: VP of Infrastructure @ Fluidstack (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Infrastructure Engineering @ ByteDance, Head of Infrastructure Engineering @ TikTok, Senior Manager @ Akamai, Penn State PhD CS

    3. Description: Left Fluidstack 5/26

  6. Chenghao S. in US (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Director, Infrastructure Platform @ Fluidstack (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Infrastructure Engineering @ TikTok, Engineering Lead, Senior Principal SWE @ Oracle, Rice MS ECE

    3. Description: Left Fluidstack 5/26

Colossal Biosciences, the de-extinction company, is in talks to raise at a $20B–$30B valuation (up from $10.2B in early 2025), per Axios.

  1. Eriona Hysolli in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of Biological Sciences @ Colossal Biosciences (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Manhattan Genomics, Postdoctoral Researcher @ Harvard Medical School, Yale PhD Genetics

    3. Description: Stealth since 3/26

  2. Peter Phillips in US (Stealth)

    1. Role: Co-Founder & CBO @ Colossal Biosciences (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: COO @ GIPHY ($150M from LSVP, Lerer Hippeau —> acq by Facebook), EVP/GM @ Marvel Entertainment, VP Product @ Fandango

    3. Description: "Building at the intersection of AI x entertainment"

  3. Cody Rasmussen-Ivey in Boston (Founder & CEO @ GALVANIS)

    1. Role: Scientist, Stem Cell Biology @ Colossal Biosciences (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CSO @ Stealth Mode Biotech, Postdoctoral Fellow @ Tufts (Levin Lab), Auburn PhD

    3. Description: "Bioelectric therapeutics for ocular repair and regenerative medicine"

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  4. Hari Jayamohan in Dallas (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Director, Hardware @ Colossal Biosciences (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Staff Robotics Scientist @ Opentrons, Principal Research Scientist @ AbbVie, Principal Scientist @ Roche

    3. Description: "Building the Future of Life Sciences — robotics, AI, and automation"

  5. Leandra Brickson in US (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Manager, AI & CompBio for Conservation @ Colossal Biosciences (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Research Assistant, AI for Medical Imaging @ Stanford, AI Researcher Intern @ Apple, Stanford EE PhD

    3. Description: Left Colossal Biosciences 8/25

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