This Week’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.

  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. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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. Contact: [email protected]

Decart, the three-year-old Israeli company building world models and chip-optimization software, is in talks to be acquired by Anthropic for around $6B, per Bloomberg — a deal that would help Anthropic control compute costs, or even design its own chips, as it moves toward an autumn IPO. Decart has raised over $450M in venture funding, most recently in May at a $4B valuation from Radical Ventures, Benchmark, Sequoia Capital, Aleph VC, and Zeev Ventures.

  1. Sagiv Harel in Tel Aviv (Stealth)

    1. Role: Core Founding Team & CPO @ Decart (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Head of R&D Section @ Israeli Military Intelligence

    3. Description: "Working on something big"

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  2. Avishay Matayev in Israel (Stealth)

    1. Role: Founding Engineer @ Decart (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Senior SWE @ Finaloop, Founding Engineer @ block.a, Israeli Military Intelligence Unit 8200

    3. Description: Stealth since 9/25

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  3. Tal Avner in Israel (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: COO @ Decart (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: COO @ Nym, VP Operations @ Nym, Co-Founder & CEO @ Launch, Reichman University

    3. Description: Left Decart 6/25 with no updates

Whatnot, the livestream shopping marketplace, closed a $545M Series G at a $20B valuation on 8/10 — what the company calls the largest raise in live commerce. ICONIQ, Lightspeed, and avra co-led, joined by Kleiner Perkins, Robinhood, and Standard Capital, with returning backers Bond Capital, CapitalG, Durable Capital Partners, DST Global, and Greycroft. Live sales topped $8B in 2025, more than double the prior year, on 20M+ new accounts and 650K+ weekly signups.

  1. Tyler Faux in US (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Product, Sellers & Marketplace @ Whatnot (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Supergreat ($10M from Thrive, Benchmark, Shopify → acq by Whatnot), Product Lead @ Tictail (acq by Shopify), iOS Intern @ Tumblr, Harvard AB CS

    3. Description: Left Whatnot in '25 — headline reads "inferencing"

    4. Contact: Site, X

Fireworks AI, the San Mateo-based inference and custom-training platform, announced a $1.5B Series D at a $17.5B valuation on 7/16, led by Atreides Management, Index Ventures, and TCV, joined by Evantic, Lightspeed, and NVIDIA.

  1. Yao Zhang in SF (Co-Founder & CEO @ TensorScale AI) - building with #2

    1. Role: Early Member, Core Technical Team & SWE @ Fireworks AI (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Principal Architect @ Microsoft, Google, Ant Financial

    3. Description: "The AI stack was built for language models. We're rebuilding it for world models."

  2. Yun Tang in SF (Co-Founder @ TensorScale AI) - building with #1

    1. Role: Research Staff Member @ Fireworks AI (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Researcher @ Hippocratic AI, Research Scientist @ Samsung Research America, Research Scientist @ Meta, Chinese Academy of Sciences PhD EE, ACL 2023 Outstanding Paper Award

    3. Description: "Co-designing model architectures, inference algorithms, compilers, and hardware-aware systems instead of optimizing each layer in isolation"

Airtable, the 13-year-old spreadsheet-database company, agreed to be acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.28B in cash — the Italian acquirer's first deal since its $18B IPO last month. Counting Airtable's net cash, the company is valued at about $2.25B, against the $11B+ it commanded at its 2021 peak and the ~$4B its shares fetched on secondaries earlier this year. It raised more than $1.4B to date, and ARR grew 20% YoY to roughly $480M as of June. Bending Spoons (Evernote, WeTransfer, Vimeo, Eventbrite) typically trims staff and streamlines products post-close — and Airtable's senior bench has been emptying for a year already.

  1. Michelle V. in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: PM, Platform Engineering @ Airtable (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Anrok ($109M from Spark, Sequoia, Index, Khosla, Sapphire), VC @ Index, IB @ Goldman Sachs, Stanford BS, Oxford MSc

    3. Description: Moved to Executive Chairman 2/26

  2. David A. in Seattle (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: CTO @ Airtable (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Engineering, ChatGPT Business Products @ OpenAI, Senior Director of Engineering @ DoorDash, Director of Engineering @ Uber

    3. Description: Left Airtable on 7/26

  3. Raymond Endres in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: CTO @ Airtable (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: VP Engineering @ Facebook, Director of Engineering @ Microsoft, Princeton BSE CS

    3. Description: "Recharging before the next adventure"

  4. JB Bakst in LA (Founder & CEO @ Chief)

    1. Role: ~7th FTE & Product & SWE @ Airtable (6 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Stanford BS CS

    3. Description: "The first inbox with good judgment"

    4. Contact: [email protected], Twitter

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