Founder

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

2.23.26 - Fluidstack Founders, IQM’s CFO & a Freeform Co-Founder from SpaceX

Co-Founder & President @ Freeform, Co-Founders @ Fluidstack, SVP Product @ Cross River (GC-backed Founder of Seed); 0→€200M+ finance lead @ IQM

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

2.18.26 - The Kavak and Legora Mafias

Kavak co-founders, Legora’s founding SWE and country heads, a Vestwell co-founder in stealth, and Stripe/Figma managers building in stablecoins.

2.15.26 Top Founders of the Week

2.11.26 - Repeat Greylock and Founders Fund-Backed Founders Exploring Second Acts

Spinouts from Monaco and Bretton, Twilio Co-Founder free agents, and Garner data leadership building in AI, robotics, and healthcare.

2.6.26 - Top Founders of the Week

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

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

2.4.26 - Repeat Founders with $200M Exit, USV-Backed Founder, and Celestial AI's CTO

Repeat founders from the Day AI founder’s prior startup, a USV-backed founder, Celestial AI's CTO, and early builders from Uptool, Kindred, and Claroty.

2.3.26 - The Waymo Mafia

Waymo’s Co-Founder, Senior Autonomy, Perception, and Systems Leaders

2.2.26 - Poetiq + Kaia Health Founders and Founding Engineers from Fieldguide, Concourse, and RobCo

Poetiq’s co-founder, Kaia Health’s founding team post-acquisition, and early engineers from Fieldguide, Concourse, and RobCo.

1.29.26 - The Farcaster Mafia + Early Members from Outtake, Zocks, and Mine

Farcaster’s co-founders and early engineers post-acquisition, plus first hires and senior operators spinning out of Outtake, Decagon, Zocks, and Mine.

1.23.26 - Top Founders of The Week

Repeat founders within ClickHouse and Pennylane, Anchorage founding engineers, a Cosmos co-founder, and senior operators from Zipline and Baseten.

1.22.26 - Cosmos Founder Starting Anew and The Anchorage & BitGo Mafias

A Cosmos co-founder, Anchorage founding engineers, and repeat founders within BitGo.

1.14.26 - The Etched Mafia

Senior MTS and founding ML scientists from Etched, defense AI founders from Harmattan, and early product and AI leaders emerging from Aikido Security and Converge Bio.

1.12.26 - The Discord Mafia

Discord’s founder transitioning to the board, its first product hire, senior product, data, and business operators, plus early PM and engineering talent spinning out post-IPO filing.

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.