(0072) early stage open source founders

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People

• Tom Greenwald

  • Consultant and PM turned co-founder of Magnitude, an open source AI testing framework with 1.6k stars on GitHub. Getting a lot of attention from multiple VCs!

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Emir Karabeg

  • Berkeley grad to founding engineer to founder of Sim Studio, an open source agent workflow builder with 2.4k stars on GitHub.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Chao Wu

  • Repeat founder (including a game studio that was acquired by AppLovin and a YC startup) now working on something new in AI.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Hakan Shehu

  • Kosovo-based founder of Colanode (open source Slack/Notion alternative). Previously worked his way up to VP Engineering at a software agency.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• TJ Krusinski

  • Engineer turned video producer (at Meta for 8yr and now Chroma), working on Madry on the side to improve production planning. Not a lot of information available but he seems to be uniquely qualified for this.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Nassar Hayat

  • Repeat founder (agency, SaaS, crypto) now building mod.computer to make building AI agents easier.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Moes

  • Accountant turned “indie hacker”, building Fluent BI to perform data analysis and generate reports using AI. The first customer was his previous employer.

  • Twitter

Funded Founders Followed

• Cameron Rowe (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Fynn Glover (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Glenn Espino (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Sohan Choudhury (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Jon Schwartz (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Max Morganroth (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Neilson Koerner-Safrata (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Rett Wallace (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Sindre Aarsaether (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Brandon Tseng (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Nicolas Joseph (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Brij Vaid (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Investors Followed

• Averin Capital (Twitter)

• Yoni Lateiner (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Earthling VC (Twitter)

• Jean Sini (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• John Werner (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Joubin Mirzadegan (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Michael Robinson (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Sean Warrington (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Marcos Ciarrocchi (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Nate Collins (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Engineers Followed

• Angela Palm (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Lillian Nguyen (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Mahesh Murag (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Noel (Twitter)

• Sherwood Callaway (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Marijana Gligoric (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Designers Followed

• Yamill Vallecillo (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Researchers Followed

• Tyler Fair (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Notes

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