Today’s Top Talent Pools
Function, the four-year-old Austin longevity company selling a $365/year membership covering 160+ lab tests and full-body MRI, raised a $298M Series B at a $2.5B valuation led by Redpoint Ventures, with Andreessen Horowitz, NFDG, Aglae Ventures, Battery Ventures, and Alumni Ventures participating. Total funding is $350M. The company acquired Ezra in 5/25. Its co-founding CTO exited in 10/25 and three more operators have left since.
Mike Nemke in Austin (Co-Founder & CEO @ Stealth)
Role: Co-Founder & CTO @ Function Health (4.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Director of AI & ML @ Aptive Resources, Green Beret (18D) @ Army Special Forces, Northwestern MS DS
Description: Stealth since 3/26
Contact: [email protected]
Vlad Bouchouev in LA (Stealth)
Role: Early Employee & Staff Technical PM @ Function Health (1.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Senior Solutions Architect @ Cedar, Investment Strategist @ BlackRock, Duke MA Economics, CMU BS Economics & Statistics
Description: "Consumer health x creator economy"
Zeina Amhaz in NYC (Founder & CEO @ Hydra Biome)
Role: Operations Lead, Special Projects @ Function Health (3 yrs)
Other Experience: PM @ Fourpost, SWE @ BUMP, SWE @ IBM
Description: Founded Hydra Biome in 2026
Anton Khabaiev in Miami (Potential Founder)
Role: Staff SWE @ Function Health (1.5 yrs)
Other Experience: CTO & Co-Founder @ the ai plugs, Director of Engineering @ Oscar Health, Director of Engineering @ fuboTV
Description: Left Function Health on 4/26 with no updates
Doctronic, the AI-native primary care provider, acquired Summer Health, the four-year-old New York startup delivering text-based pediatric care. Terms were undisclosed. Summer Health had raised $19M across a $7.5M seed and an $11.65M Series A co-led by Lux Capital and 7wireVentures, with Sequoia Capital, Box Group, Metrodora Ventures, Pivotal Ventures, and Leaps by Bayer participating.
Matthew Woo in SF (Stealth)
Role: Co-Founder, President & CPO @ Summer Health (4 yrs)
Other Experience: Product @ WhatsApp, Product @ Meta, 1st Product Hire @ UJET, Growth PM @ Intercom, Head of Product @ Yo.
Description: "Riff'n on something new with my favorite people"
Sam Silverman in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: Head of Engineering @ Summer Health (2 yrs)
Other Experience: Senior Eng Manager @ Practice Fusion, Senior SWE @ Orion Health
Description: Left Summer Health on 7/26 with no updates
Contact: [email protected]
Antora Energy, the Sunnyvale startup building thermal batteries that power always-on industrial operations, raised $550M in Series C funding. G2 Venture Partners and Eclipse led, joined by Ribbit Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Activate Capital, John Doerr, Westly Group, StepStone Group, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, and insiders Decarbonization Partners, Impact Science Ventures, Trust Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Lowercarbon Capital. Its CFO and an early commercial hire both left to found companies before the round landed.
Rene Griemens in SF (Co-Founder @ Arcticar)
Role: CFO @ Antora Energy (2 yrs)
Other Experience: CFO @ Mighty Buildings ($150M from Khosla, YC), CFO & MD @ Volocopter ($564M from Daimler, Geely), MD @ IEG Investment Banking, CEO & CFO @ dooyoo, Consultant @ McKinsey
Description: "The intelligent energy platform for the cold chain"
Lisa W. in SF (Founder & CEO @ Daylight Infrastructure)
Role: 5th Commercial Hire & Product and Business Development @ Antora Energy (2 yrs)
Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Coolant ($4.3M from General Catalyst, Floodgate) Decarbonization Research Assistant @ Harvard Kennedy School, Founder & Co-President @ Harvard Undergraduate Clean Energy Group, Harvard BS Environmental Science & Engineering
Description: "Intelligence. Powered faster by Daylight."
Contact: Site
Sail Biomedicines, the Cambridge-based Flagship Pioneering company formed from the 2023 merger of Laronde and Senda Biosciences, signed a collaboration with Johnson & Johnson worth $785M upfront — including a $465M equity investment — plus $140M in development milestones. J&J also holds an exclusive option to acquire Sail for an additional $2.58B.
Trevor Hallam in Boston (Stealth)
Role: Chief Scientific Officer @ Sail Biomedicines (2 yrs)
Other Experience: Chief Scientific Officer @ Laronde ($440M from Flagship, T. Rowe Price, BlackRock), President, Research & Chief Scientific Officer @ Sutro Biopharma ($85M Nasdaq IPO 2018), VP Respiratory & Inflammation Discovery @ AstraZeneca, Cambridge post-doc, University of London PhD Biochemistry
Description: Stealth since 7/25
Contact: [email protected]
