Today’s Top Talent Pools

Clay, the GTM data and outbound automation platform, is raising new money led by Wellington at a $7B pre-money valuation, per Axios on 31 August 2026. That is more than four times its value in early 2025 and comes on top of a $100M Series C led by CapitalG in August 2025 at $3.1B post-money, with Sequoia, Meritech, First Round, BoxGroup, Boldstart and Sapphire Ventures participating, taking disclosed funding to $204M. A $55M employee tender led by DST Global in January 2026 had already marked the company at $5B. Clay crossed $100M ARR in December 2025, serves more than 14,000 customers including OpenAI and Canva, and holds enterprise net revenue retention above 200%.

  1. Théo Powers in Vancouver (Founder & CEO @ Fiber)

    1. Role: Full Stack Engineer, FTE #1 @ Clay (5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ merkle (acquired), Senior SWE @ Coinbase

    3. Description: "The Stablecoin Neobank”

  2. Adam Eldefrawy in NYC (Co-Founder & CTO @ Goodlabs)

    1. Role: SWE, FTE #5 @ Clay (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Meta, Intern @ Root Ventures, Research Assistant @ UC Irvine

    3. Description: “Goodlabs pairs blood donation with preventive lab testing to grow donors and retention while giving people meaningful health insights.”

  3. Lele Xu in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Early Growth @ Clay (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ Sillable, Early hire @ Snackpass ($100M+ from a16z, Y Combinator, Craft), Technical PM @ Google, Full Stack SWE @ HelloFresh

    3. Description: Stealth since 3/26

  4. Brian Liang in Brooklyn (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Software Engineer @ Clay (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Rockset, SWE @ Facebook, SWE @ LinkedIn, SWE @ Expedia Group, Northwestern

    3. Description: Left Clay 5/26 after building waterfalls, workbooks and functions.

  5. Eva Tuecke in SF (Co-Founder @ Altara) - Venture Lead

    1. Role: Software Engineer @ Clay (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Machine Learning Researcher @ IBM, Starlink @ SpaceX, Researcher, Computational Particle Physics @ Fermilab, Harvard

    3. Description: “Altara unlocks the hidden insights in your data using agents purpose-built for the physical sciences. Accelerate R&D through manufacturing.:

    4. Funding: $7M seed led by Greylock, with Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2 Ventures

  6. Matt Maiale in Brooklyn (CEO @ Instant)

    1. Role: Head of Marketing, 1st marketing hire @ Clay (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: 1st hire @ Zeal, Growth Marketing @ Skiff, Growth Marketing @ Demand Curve

    3. Description: “The fastest domain name search tool on the internet. Check domain availability across 800+ extensions, find popular TLDs, and buy premium domains as you type)

  7. Colin Parsons in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: SWE @ Clay (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Unlisted, Founder @ Groxos, Venture Partner & EIR @ Contrary

    3. Description: "Something new", left Clay 9/25

  8. Thomas Colitsas in NYC (Co-Founder @ Verona)

    1. Role: Engineering, Growth @ Clay (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Carbos (acquried), Duke University

    3. Description: “We make the world legible to frontier intelligence”

  9. Luna Ruan in Brooklyn (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Engineering Manager, Team Lead @ Clay (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Tech Lead @ Meta, Software Engineer @ Meta, Software Engineer @ Pinterest, Carnegie Mellon

    3. Description: Left Clay 2/26. Headline reads "ex-React, ex-Pinterest".

  10. Alex Reznik in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Product Engineer @ Clay (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: FDE @ Celonis, Dartmouth College

    3. Description: Left Clay in 2026

  11. Tara Debek in NYC (Founder @ Jargon)

    1. Role: GTM Engineer @ Clay (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ Harper (exited), Founder @ Girlfriend Digital (exited)

    3. Description: “Revenue teams already build AI tools in Claude and ChatGPT. Jargon turns those scattered builds into consistent, shareable infrastructure — across sales, retention, account management, and ops.”

  12. Jason Lam in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Software Engineer @ Clay (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Software Engineer @ Meta, Software Engineer @ Twitter, University of Waterloo

    3. Description: Left Clay 10/25. Unattached

  13. Daniel L. in NYC (Co-Founder @ Mercana)

    1. Role: Engineering Intern @ Clay (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Associate @ PDT Partners, Managing Partner @ Dorm Room Fund, Yale University

    3. Description: "Customer intelligence for consumer brands”

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