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Nscale, an AI cloud platform valued by VCs at $14.6B, agreed to acquire Anyscale, the San Francisco AI app development platform behind Ray, for a reported $1.65B. Anyscale had raised roughly $260M from Addition, a16z, NEA, Intel Capital, and Foundation Capital.
Alex Tang in SF (Stealth)
Role: 1st Finance Hire & Acting CFO @ Anyscale (2 yrs)
Other Experience: 1st Finance Hire & Head of Gen AI Ops @ Scale AI, Finance & Accounting Manager @ Square
Description: "Reimagining the future of learning for the next generation"
Contact: [email protected]
Chen Shen in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: Senior Staff SWE @ Anyscale (3 yrs)
Other Experience: MTS @ OpenAI, Curious Typist @ Cursor, Staff SWE @ Facebook, Peking University MS Computer SWE
Description: “Currently i'm on a career break to understand the math foundations of LLMs.”
Contact: GitHub
Yifei Feng in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: Head of Foundations @ Anyscale (5 yrs)
Other Experience: Engineering Manager @ Databricks, Senior SWE @ Google, Design Verification Engineer @ Microsoft, Stanford MS Electrical Engineering
Description: Left Databricks on 6/26 with no updates
Role: Founding Product Designer @ Anyscale (1 yr)
Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Futuro, Product Growth & Design @ Dropbox, UC Berkeley MS AI
Description: "Building agentic social network for gen z"
Contact: [email protected]
Jonathan Chuang in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: SWE, Core Team @ Anyscale (<1 yr)
Other Experience: MTS @ Magic, Co-Founder @ Socean Labs ($5M seed), Cambridge BA Mathematics
Description: Left Magic on 5/25 with no updates
Contact: GitHub
Ibrahim Rabbani in SF (Co-Founder & CEO @ Zibra Labs)
Role: SWE, Tech Lead @ Anyscale (1 yr)
Other Experience: Staff SWE @ LinkedIn, SWE @ Moody's Analytics
Description: "High performance computing clusters for quantitative trading firms running backtesting at scale"
Funding: Backed by Y Combinator on 4/26.
Kamil Kaczmarek in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: Technical Training Lead & SWE, RL @ Anyscale (3.5 yrs)
Other Experience: ML & DevRel Lead @ neptune.ai, RL Research @ TensorCell
Description: South Park Commons resident since 6/26
Contact: Twitter
Shawn Pan in NYC (Stealth)
Role: SWE @ Anyscale (2.5 yrs)
Other Experience: SWE Team Lead @ Citadel, SWE @ Palantir Technologies
Description: "Simplifying injury care operations"
Michael Luo in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: Engineer Intern @ Anyscale (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Student Researcher @ Google DeepMind, Researcher @ Berkeley RISE Lab, Berkeley PhD CS
Description: Completed Berkeley CS PhD in '25 with no role listed since
Hao Jiang in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: SWE @ Anyscale (<1 yr)
Other Experience: SWE @ xAI, SWE @ Mooncake Labs, SWE @ Nuro, Duke MS Computer SWE
Description: Left xAI on 7/26 with no updates
Contact: [email protected]
