(0081) fresh thiel fellows + extremely experienced technical executives

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Early Stage Founders

• Matthew Mengerink

  • Ex-CTO of EBay and VP at Uber/YouTube recently quit his stealth startup of 6mo and is now “exploring”.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Scott Persinger

  • Experienced engineering leader (Heroku/Stripe/Tatari) now co-founding Supercog (open-source application integrations for AI agents).

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Zimran Ahmed

  • Building a solution to scaling developer and creator ecosystems (which he believes will explode in the age of AI) using his experience as the product lead for Meta’s Horizon Worlds creator ecosystem.

  • LinkedIn

• Juan Pablo Ebrath

  • Ambitious founder of PhaseLabs, focused on understanding and engineering limb/retina regeneration with a small amount already raised. Previously founded an investment platform called Macondo (acquired by Bricksave). Thiel Fellow and Z Fellows alum based in San Francisco.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Koki Mashita

  • Co-Founder at Aeolus Labs in defense/space (not much info is available). Previously worked as an ML Researcher at Berkeley RISE Lab and is a Thiel Fellow.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Steven Pang

  • Co-founder of Orbit (neurotech), based in Boston. Limited public information available, but appears to be building since 2022, with at least a pre-seed.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

• Aaron Vontell (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Technical Staff at Anthropic, and previously founded Regression Games backed by NEA and a16z

• Alexander Christie (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Attio, previously serving as Head of Engineering at Fundstack

• Carlo Kobe (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Fizz (YC S21) and a student VC at Harvard University

• Ferdinand Dabitz (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Ivy based in Berlin

• Keith Nealon (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Bazaarvoice and serves as an Advisory Board Member at Axonista

• Merrill Lutsky (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Graphite, a platform for code review in the age of AI

• nalin (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Scrapybara, building Scout, and previously worked as a Research Intern at MultiOn and Teaching Assistant at Georgia Tech

• Tobias Gunzenhauser (Twitter, LinkedIn) - ETH Zürich and serves as an Advisor & Investor while consulting for a stealth company

Investors Followed

• Elias Mufarech (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Hillary Cook (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Michael Parker (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Tammie Siew (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Tim Suzman (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Engineers Followed

• Aidan Smith (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Alex Suevalov (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Cade Gordon (Twitter)

• Dhruv Atreja (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Grace Yun (Twitter, LinkedIn) - currently on sabbatical and working on personal projects

• Graham Perich (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Lucas Vocos (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Muzaffer Kal (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Naomi Bashkansky (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Robert Kirby (Twitter)

• Wes Field (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Designers Followed

• Cherrilynn Zhang (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Researchers Followed

• Malte Schwarzkopf (Twitter)

• Rohit Gandikota (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Notes

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