Team - Startup Mafias (Page 12)

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Sequoia

27 Feb 2026

2.26.25 - The Stripe Mafia (Pt. 2)

Stripe-acquired repeat founder, CISO, Head of AI Development; Notion's 5th engineer; Anthropic and OpenAI alums; and 10+ repeat founders backed by Index, GC, and YC

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Sequoia

25 Feb 2026

2.24.26 - The Stripe Mafia

20+ repeat founders, Stripe's GM for Connect & Global Payments (ran 90% of P&L); Head of Applied ML; creators of Checkout, Atlas, Dashboard & Corporate Card

2.23.26 - Fluidstack Founders, IQM’s CFO & a Freeform Co-Founder from SpaceX

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Repeat Founder

24 Feb 2026

2.23.26 - Fluidstack Founders, IQM’s CFO & a Freeform Co-Founder from SpaceX

Co-Founder & President @ Freeform, Co-Founders @ Fluidstack, SVP Product @ Cross River (GC-backed Founder of Seed); 0→€200M+ finance lead @ IQM

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Sante

20 Feb 2026

2.20.26 - Top Founders of the Week

Head of ML at PolyAI, Stash’s co-founder post-sale, Lily Robotics and Jyve repeat founders, and Grafana’s post-acquisition builders

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Moonshot

19 Feb 2026

2.19.26 - Early Moonshot Researcher and ex Venture Fellows from Slash

Stripe Mafia next week. Essential AI, Pear Garage, and Z-Fellow product and engineering talent from Slash, plus an early Moonshot LLM researcher.

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Founding Engineer

18 Feb 2026

2.18.26 - The Kavak and Legora Mafias

Kavak co-founders, Legora’s founding SWE and country heads, a Vestwell co-founder in stealth, and Stripe/Figma managers building in stablecoins.

2.17.26 - PolyAI’s COO, a Repeat YC Founder, and Senior Talent from Braintrust & Temporal

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Neara

17 Feb 2026

2.17.26 - PolyAI’s COO, a Repeat YC Founder, and Senior Talent from Braintrust & Temporal

PolyAI’s COO and Head of ML, Temporal’s product and engineering leads, Braintrust's Head of Biz Ops, plus a 7-year DeepMind researcher now building in robotics.