Today’s Top Talent Pools

Aranya announced $11M on 1 September: a $9M seed led by First Round Capital with BoxGroup, Vermilion Cliffs and Asylum Ventures, on top of a $2M pre-seed led by Asylum Ventures with Founder Collective, Parable VC and Uncommon Ventures. The San Francisco company converts bare metal into production-ready GPU clusters in under 48 hours, and says it already manages more than $500M of GPUs before its first anniversary. Its open-source engine clusterdOS cut cluster setup at Hydra Host from six weeks to under 48 hours and reduced outages by 90%.

  1. Zachary Kastenhuber in New York (Stealth)

    1. Role: Co-Founder @ Aranya (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Armada Funds, Analyst @ Harvard Investment Association & Fund, Summer Analyst @ Bank of America Merrill Lynch

    3. Description: Stealth since 5/26

HiddenLayer, the Austin AI security company, raised a $100M Series B on 2 September led by Delta-v Capital, with Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, M12 (Microsoft's venture fund) and Booz Allen Ventures participating. Total funding is now roughly $156M across three rounds, after a $6M seed in 2022 and a $50M Series A in 2023.

  1. Nathan Levites in Portland (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Founding Engineer @ HiddenLayer (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Bobafy, Sustaining Software Engineer @ BlackBerry

    3. Description: Left HiddenLayer 9/26

  2. Alex DeNuzzo in San Francisco (Stealth)

    1. Role: Machine Learning Engineering Intern @ HiddenLayer (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder @ Telos Bio (acquired), Head of Growth @ Dedalus Labs (YC S25), Fellow @ Edge City

    3. Description: Stealth since 7/26

Wonderful, the Israeli-Dutch company building enterprise AI agents for non-English-speaking markets, raised $550M on 2 September at a $5B valuation, led by Insight Partners, with Salesforce investing for the first time and Index Ventures, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards and Bessemer returning. That doubles the $2B mark set six months earlier and takes total funding past $800M for a company founded in early 2025. Run-rate revenue is roughly $70M, heading past $100M by year end, across 35 markets and about 650 staff.

  1. Piotr Antropov in Riga (Stealth)

    1. Role: GM Baltics @ Wonderful (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-CEO & Co-Founder @ Lokalise ($50M Series B, Prosus, Dawn Capital), Chief Strategy Officer @ Lokalise, Business Development @ Apply Intelligent Technologies

    3. Description: Left Wonderful on 5/26

  2. Patricio del Sol in Santiago (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: CTO Argentina & Chile @ Wonderful (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ Admetricks (acquired by Similarweb), Senior Director R&D Ad Intelligence @ Similarweb, Seed Investor & Board Member @ babytuto.com (acquired by Walmart)

    3. Description: Left Wonderful 6/26

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  3. Lior Polak in Tel Aviv (Stealth)

    1. Role: Senior Software Engineer @ Wonderful (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ heyfitt, Senior Software Engineer @ Sweet Security, Officer @ Israeli Military Intelligence

    3. Description: Left Wonderful 4/26

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  4. Bo Chen in SF Bay Area (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Strategic Initiatives, CTO Office @ Wonderful (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Partners Success @ Palantir, Forward Deployed Engineer & Deployment Strategist @ Palantir, Head of Customer Success Services Adoption @ Palantir, Co-Founder & President @ Start-Up in Motorsports

    3. Description: Left Wonderful 7/26

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