Today’s Top Talent Pools
Lovable, the three-year-old Stockholm startup that lets users build software via text commands, is reportedly in talks to raise $300M at a $13.2B valuation, with Menlo Ventures the purported lead. Early and founding-adjacent talent is departing to build.
Elliot Lindberg in Stockholm (Stealth)
Role: ~20th FTE & MTS @ Lovable (1.5 yrs)
Description: Left Lovable 7/26
Contact: Site
Emil Ahlbäck in SF (Stealth)
Role: Founding Engineer @ Lovable (3 yrs)
Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Godmode (first AI agent to reach 1M users), Frontend Engineer @ Depict (YC S20), Scout @ a16z, KTH BSc + NTU Singapore
Description: Left Lovable 7/26
Contact: Site
Filip Stål in Stockholm (Potential Founder)
Role: Operator @ Lovable (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Bluebook (EQT Ventures, YC W25, angels from OpenAI, ElevenLabs), KTH BSc Engineering Physics
Description: Left Bluebook 4/26 — "Builder (YC W25)"
Contact: [email protected]
Amir S. in Sweden (Potential Founder)
Role: Founding Team & MTS @ Lovable (1 yr)
Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ Education Geeks (bootstrapped to $5M revenue)
Description: Left Lovable 1/26
Contact: Site
Zack A. in US (Potential Founder)
Role: EiR @ Lovable (1 yr)
Other Experience: Program Director @ University of Oxford
Description: Left Lovable 1/26
Contact: [email protected]
Erik Bjäreholt in Sweden (Founder @ Superuser Labs)
Role: 1st Hire & MTS @ Lovable (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Founder @ ActivityWatch, Lead Developer @ VoiceDiagnostic, Lund MSc CS
Description: "Building gptme — open-source autonomous agent"
Contact: Site
Alexander Wikström in Stockholm (Founder & CEO @ Blaise)
Role: Head of GTM Engineering @ Lovable (1 yr)
Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ Darwin (exited), Founder & CEO @ Remedi, KTH MSc + SSE
Description: "Builds all your enterprise software, deployed on your own infrastructure — doing the work of an entire consultancy, but faster"
Funding: YC S26
Contact: [email protected]
Elliot Norrevik in Stockholm (Founder & CTO @ Blaise)
Role: Engineer @ Lovable (<1 yr)
Description: "Builds all your enterprise software, deployed on your own infrastructure — doing the work of an entire consultancy, but faster"
Contact: [email protected], Site
Jonas Rosengren in SF (Co-Founder @ Tandela)
Role: MTS & Product Specialist @ Lovable (1 yr)
Description: "AI front desk and chairside assistant for dental clinics — less admin, more dentistry"
Funding: YC S26
Roman Yanushevskyi in SF (Co-Founder @ Touchmark)
Role: AI Developer @ Lovable (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Quantitative Researcher @ Citadel Securities
Description: "Infrastructure to price AI based on the quality of its output"
Funding: YC S26
Contact: [email protected]
Jarik Foth in SF (Co-Founder @ her labs)
Role: AI Ops @ Lovable (<1 yr)
Description: "Building company brains"
Funding: Backed by a16z Speedrun, Clay VC.
Contact: [email protected]
Jonathan Ahrlind in Stockholm (Potential Founder)
Role: Founding GTM @ Lovable (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Dentio, Quantitative Researcher @ Nasdaq, KTH BSc Engineering Physics
Description: Left Dentio 4/26
Contact: [email protected]
Abhijeet Jha in India (Stealth)
Role: MTS @ Lovable (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Senior SWE @ Google, SWE @ Amazon
Description: Stealth since 11/25 — "Helping Enterprise get AI ready"
