(0069) founders that recently left their startups

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People

• Scott Galant

  • Founder of TinaCMS, which was acquired in 2024 (he worked with the acquirer until February). No clear signs he’s starting something new, but might be worth reaching out.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Wendy Tsu

  • Investor and and co-founder of Branch Care, recently stepped down from CEO position. Might be worth finding out what is next!

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Sebastian Villarreal

  • Repeat founder (Kin Insurance, Super Seguros). Although his Twitter says “currently just hanging out”, his LinkedIn says “now working on nearshoring”.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Jinay Jain

  • Ex-Virtu Financial software engineer now “tinkering full-time on personal projects” as a Neo Scholar.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Funded Founders Followed

• Adam Bateman (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Alaxic Smith (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Robert Chandler (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Casey Fenton (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Ramin Bozorgzadeh (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Jacob Fortinsky (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Hunter Leath (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Tarek Alaruri (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Max Crown (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Investors Followed

• Barr Yaron (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• EQUIAM VC (Twitter)

• James Alcorn (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Laura Thompson (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Max Chen (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Phylicia Koh (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Sunflower Capital (Twitter)

• John Smothers (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• TipTop VC (Twitter)

• Vivek Gopalan (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• William Li (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Nune Zadoyan (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Max Crown (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Diana Lace Davidova (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Chris Pondoc (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Marc Manara (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Engineers Followed

• Anshul Ramachandran (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Laurynas Keturakis (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Alex Pareto (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Alex Louizos (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• David Oh (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Dirceu Pereira Tiegs (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Gil M (Twitter)

• Gokay Femdioglu (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Jediah Katz (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• James Risberg (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Leo Jiang (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Nick Fiacco (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Shrinivas Shah (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Tom Knowles (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Travis Ennis (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Tyson Trautmann (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Piotr Migdal (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Roi Tiger (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• David Hershey (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Malhar Patel (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Inaki Arango (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Dinesh Vasireddy (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Julian Quevedo (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Nikita Mounier (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Chris Pondoc (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Daniel Guo (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Designers Followed

• Frank Costa (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Researchers Followed

• Max Ryabinin (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Daniel Guo (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Tong Chen (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Notes

• We curate interesting people that have some signals that they might be interesting founders either now or in the future. They are not guaranteed to be currently founding or interested in investment.

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