Today’s Top Talent Pools

Baseten, an SF-based AI inference startup, is in talks to raise Series G funding at a $26B valuation, per Axios Pro. axios.link/4yYxR0h

  1. Phillippe Siclait in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: SWE @ Baseten (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-founder & CEO @ Clay3D ($4M from Thrive Capital, Y Combinator), Founder & ML Engineer @ Convexity AI, SWE @ Airbnb, Associate @ The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    3. Description: Left 9/26

  2. Suren Atoyan in Armenia (Founder & CEO @ CyberFusion)

    1. Role: SWE @ Baseten (6 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Team Lead @ Genesis Solutions, Engineering Lead @ apolloBytes

    3. Description: "CyberFusion is a vertically integrated full-stack robotics company building robotic platforms from the ground up.”

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  3. Luke Miller in Barcelona (Co-founder & CEO @ SLNG)

    1. Role: Sales EMEA & APJ @ Baseten (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: VP Sales EMEA / APAC @ Vercel, GM EMEA @ npm, Inc., Head Of Partnerships @ Typeform.com

    3. Description: "Building Global Speech AI Infrastructure"

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  4. Ismael Ordaz Reyes in Barcelona (Co-founder & CPO @ SLNG)

    1. Role: GTM EMEA @ Baseten (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Product @ Immfly

    3. Description: "Building Global Speech AI Infrastructure"

  5. Nithanth Ram in New York (Stealth)

    1. Role: Intern @ Baseten (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Graduate Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon CyLab, Graduate Associate @ Lux Capital, Partner @ Dorm Room Fund, AI Fellow @ Deepgram

    3. Description: Stealth since 1/26

  6. Jie Gong in Denver (Stealth)

    1. Role: Applied AI Inference Engineer @ Baseten (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Principal Engineer @ SambaNova, Doctoral Student @ Carnegie Mellon University

    3. Description: Left 7/26

  7. Veer Bhatia in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: SWE @ Baseten (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Frontier Initiatives @ Datadog

    3. Description: Left Datadog 9/26

Ema, the agentic AI employee platform, raised a $77M Series B led by Creaegis, with Accel, Section 32 and Prosus all increasing their stakes. Total funding is now $140M and the valuation more than quadrupled from its 2024 round, which the company declined to disclose.

  1. Souvik Sen in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Co-Founder and CTO @ Ema (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Vice President, Engineering @ Okta, Senior Staff SWE @ Google, Principal Research Scientist @ Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

    3. Description: Left Ema 7/26

  2. Shridhar Kumar in New York (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: AI Research Scientist @ Ema (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Scientific Assistant @ ETH Zurich, Co-Founder @ NeuralSpace ($2.8M seed from Merus Capital, GoHub, Techstars)

    3. Description: Left Ema 12/25

  3. Sai Satwik in United States (Co-Founder @ Klio Care)

    1. Role: Senior SWE (AI) @ Ema (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ OntuneAI (raised from Brigade), EIR @ Antler, SWE @ Jupiter, Backend Engineer @ Stack Finance, Indian Institute of Information Technology, SriCity

    3. Description: “Revenue infrastructure layer for post-acute care.”

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  4. Shrinu Sivakumar in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Engineering Lead @ Ema (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Senior SWE @ Stealth, SWE @ LinkedIn, SWE for Alexa Skills Kit @ Amazon, University of California, Berkeley

    3. Description: Stealth since 2/25

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