(0078) ai copilots for data, CRMs, music, and computer use

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Early Stage Founders

• Peyton Casper

  • Staff engineer (Pinecone, Contextual HashiCorp) now founding CoffeeBlack AI, a copilot for computer use. Based in San Francisco.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Kevin Bluett

  • Engineering leader at HubSpot currently co-founding a stealth startup (possibly part-time while maintaining his role at HubSpot). Based in Dublin, Ireland with expertise in CRM systems.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Matt Zimak

  • Co-founder of Deep Noise, an AI music creativity platform (with some initial funding). Previously worked at PwC and venture capital firm Miton C. Based in NYC.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Justine Chang

  • Software engineer with experience at Zuno Carbon, Antler, and Qashier now building fusion tuition and aapollo.net.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Nikhil Satheesh Pillai

  • Cornell grad currently building Nexus, a copilot for your data. Previously interned as a software engineer at Amazon and Intel. Part of LAUNCH Cohort 9 at Founder University.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

• Arkadiy Telegin (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Leaping AI, a YC W25 company building self-improving voice AI, and previously served as Chief Software Officer at WARR Space Robotics

• Brian Yun (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Endo Health, backed by a16z, General Catalyst, and Anne Wojcicki

• Indigo Orton (Twitter) - Oslo and has a Cambridge PhD in program analysis and concurrency

• Jay Khatri (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Highlight, an open-source application monitoring platform that was acquired by LaunchDarkly

• Matt Aitken (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Trigger.dev, a YC W23 company, and previously served as CTO at Spoof and Solve

• Niko Le Mieux (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Easy Labs and COO at Noble Networks, focusing on finance and payments innovation

• Tyler Bernstein (Twitter) - Zeno Power, building nuclear batteries to power the frontier

Investors Followed

• Amy Li (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• David Cheng (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Lydia Day (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Magnus Hambleton (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Peter Teneriello (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• TextbookVC (Twitter)

Engineers Followed

• Ahmet Hüseyin Gökdayı (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Nancy Hung (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Preslav Mihaylov (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Swair Shah (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Notes

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