(0066) phones without apps and deciphering health data

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People

• Manik Khanna

  • Ex-Amobee/PlaceIQ business leader and investor now working on SemantIQ Health to decipher healthcare data with AI.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Max Dauber

  • Ex-Primer engineer now working on “something new”.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Saleh Hindi

  • Ex-Bloomberg and ex-Lyft engineer now “tinkering” in stealth.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Sam Hall

  • Software engineer with a couple years of experience that became a South Park Commons member before founding Wafer, an AI-first phone operating system, a “phone without apps”.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Ben Sheafy

  • UPenn math PhD now co-founding Tilde Research, building interpreter AI models.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Madeline Park

  • Ex-Uber, Neo scholar, and venture scout building Vega (AI powered lists for recruiting and more) in stealth.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Funded Founders Followed

• Dino Mavrookas (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Micah Wylde (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Scott Morton (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Investors Followed

• MTF VC (Twitter)

• Nikita Andersson (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• PBI Fund (Twitter)

• Victor Jacobsson (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Will Bitsky (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Stacy D'Amico (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Engineers Followed

• Pratham Soni (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Shrivu Shankar (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Stu Kennedy (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Krishna Goutham (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Noah Kim (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Asher Pope (Twitter)

Designers Followed

• Marcin Bober (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Sona Dolasia (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Notes

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