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.

  1. Elliot Lindberg in Stockholm (Stealth)

    1. Role: ~20th FTE & MTS @ Lovable (1.5 yrs)

    2. Description: Left Lovable 7/26

    3. Contact: Site

  2. Emil Ahlbäck in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Founding Engineer @ Lovable (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Godmode (first AI agent to reach 1M users), Frontend Engineer @ Depict (YC S20), Scout @ a16z, KTH BSc + NTU Singapore

    3. Description: Left Lovable 7/26

    4. Contact: Site

  3. Filip Stål in Stockholm (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Operator @ Lovable (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Bluebook (EQT Ventures, YC W25, angels from OpenAI, ElevenLabs), KTH BSc Engineering Physics

    3. Description: Left Bluebook 4/26 — "Builder (YC W25)"

  4. Amir S. in Sweden (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Founding Team & MTS @ Lovable (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ Education Geeks (bootstrapped to $5M revenue)

    3. Description: Left Lovable 1/26

    4. Contact: Site

  5. Zack A. in US (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: EiR @ Lovable (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Program Director @ University of Oxford

    3. Description: Left Lovable 1/26

  6. Erik Bjäreholt in Sweden (Founder @ Superuser Labs)

    1. Role: 1st Hire & MTS @ Lovable (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder @ ActivityWatch, Lead Developer @ VoiceDiagnostic, Lund MSc CS

    3. Description: "Building gptme — open-source autonomous agent"

    4. Contact: Site

  7. Alexander Wikström in Stockholm (Founder & CEO @ Blaise)

    1. Role: Head of GTM Engineering @ Lovable (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ Darwin (exited), Founder & CEO @ Remedi, KTH MSc + SSE

    3. Description: "Builds all your enterprise software, deployed on your own infrastructure — doing the work of an entire consultancy, but faster"

    4. Funding: YC S26

  8. Elliot Norrevik in Stockholm (Founder & CTO @ Blaise)

    1. Role: Engineer @ Lovable (<1 yr)

    2. Description: "Builds all your enterprise software, deployed on your own infrastructure — doing the work of an entire consultancy, but faster"

  9. Jonas Rosengren in SF (Co-Founder @ Tandela)

    1. Role: MTS & Product Specialist @ Lovable (1 yr)

    2. Description: "AI front desk and chairside assistant for dental clinics — less admin, more dentistry"

    3. Funding: YC S26

  10. Roman Yanushevskyi in SF (Co-Founder @ Touchmark)

    1. Role: AI Developer @ Lovable (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Quantitative Researcher @ Citadel Securities

    3. Description: "Infrastructure to price AI based on the quality of its output"

    4. Funding: YC S26

  11. Jarik Foth in SF (Co-Founder @ her labs)

    1. Role: AI Ops @ Lovable (<1 yr)

    2. Description: "Building company brains"

    3. Funding: Backed by a16z Speedrun, Clay VC.

  12. Jonathan Ahrlind in Stockholm (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Founding GTM @ Lovable (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Dentio, Quantitative Researcher @ Nasdaq, KTH BSc Engineering Physics

    3. Description: Left Dentio 4/26

  13. Abhijeet Jha in India (Stealth)

    1. Role: MTS @ Lovable (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Senior SWE @ Google, SWE @ Amazon

    3. Description: Stealth since 11/25 — "Helping Enterprise get AI ready"