AI Infrastructure

Stripe

+10

Feb 27, 2026

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5 min read

2.27.26 - Top Founders of the Week

Co-Founders of Cursor, Freeform, Fluidstack, Orum; creators of Stripe Checkout/Atlas/Connect/Dashboard; Playco CTO & Statsig founding engineer

Sante

+18

Feb 19, 2026

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8 min read

2.20.26 - Top Founders of the Week

Head of ML at PolyAI, Stash’s co-founder post-sale, Lily Robotics and Jyve repeat founders, and Grafana’s post-acquisition builders

Neara

+10

2.17.26 - PolyAI’s COO, a Repeat YC Founder, and Senior Talent from Braintrust & Temporal

Feb 16, 2026

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4 min read

2.17.26 - PolyAI’s COO, a Repeat YC Founder, and Senior Talent from Braintrust & Temporal

PolyAI’s COO and Head of ML, Temporal’s product and engineering leads, Braintrust's Head of Biz Ops, plus a 7-year DeepMind researcher now building in robotics.

AI Infrastructure

Feb 12, 2026

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8 min read

2.12.26 - The Databricks Mafia

Acquired founders, MosaicML leaders, Spark architects, and MLflow authors building across security, inference, and infrastructure

Autonomous Driving

+21

Feb 5, 2026

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8 min read

2.6.26 - Top Founders of the Week

12 Repeat Founders, Co-Creator of Veo, and Founding Engineer of Parallel Web Systems

Crypto

+12

2.5.26 - Repeat Founders Backed by Khosla & Bessemer in Stealth

Feb 4, 2026

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5 min read

2.5.26 - Repeat Founders Backed by Khosla & Bessemer in Stealth

Former Drift, Turnstile, Machina Labs, Second Measure founders, alongside operators from Goodfire, TRM Labs, and Fibr

AI Infrastructure

1.21.26 - The Zipline and Baseten Mafias

Jan 20, 2026

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5 min read

1.21.26 - The Zipline and Baseten Mafias

Repeat founders and founding engineers from Zipline, plus Baseten engineers and sales team

ClickHouse

Jan 19, 2026

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5 min read

1.20.26 - ClickHouse-Acquired Founder and Sequoia-Backed Founder On the Map

Repeat founders within ClickHouse and Pennylane, alongside early product, AI, and GTM leaders emerging from ElevenLabs, Terralayr, and Ethos.

xAI

+12

Jan 8, 2026

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6 min read

1.9.26 - Top Founders of the Week

Groq and Motive co-founders, founding MTS from xAI, senior architects from Cyera, and an early technical hire from LMArena.

AI Infrastructure

2.27.26 - Top Founders of the Week

2.20.26 - Top Founders of the Week

2.17.26 - PolyAI’s COO, a Repeat YC Founder, and Senior Talent from Braintrust & Temporal

2.12.26 - The Databricks Mafia

2.6.26 - Top Founders of the Week

2.5.26 - Repeat Founders Backed by Khosla & Bessemer in Stealth

1.21.26 - The Zipline and Baseten Mafias

1.20.26 - ClickHouse-Acquired Founder and Sequoia-Backed Founder On the Map

1.9.26 - Top Founders of the Week

Stealth Founders