Blue Origin’s directors, propulsion and manufacturing engineers, including a former Hermeus CTO and SpaceX Dragon chief engineer building new aerospace, defense, industrial AI, and engineering startups.
Members Only
Hugging Face
8.25.26 - The Hugging Face Mafia
Hugging Face’s founding research crew, previously acquired founders from Gradio and XetData, plus Greycroft-backed Co-Founders & Founding Research Engineers
Members Only
Perplexity
8.24.26 - The Perplexity Mafia
Perplexity’s Comet browser builders, 1st SWE & growth engineer, consumer experience lead, and acquired founders leaving to build new AI, agent, robotics, and consumer startups.
Members Only
Top Founders of the Week
8.21.26 - Top Founders of the Week
Simile’s 1st hire and 5th MTS, Gravis Robotics’ co-founder, Higgsfield’s founding research talent, Fish Audio’s co-founders and founding engineer, Neros’ former COO, and Paradigm’s 1st employee & GP.
Members Only
Benchmark
8.20.26 - Paradigm’s 1st Employee, Partners & VP Eng + Early Heroku, Privy & Multiverse Leaders
Paradigm’s 1st employee, research and investment partners, and VP Engineering, alongside Heroku’s 1st engineer, Privy’s 2nd FTE & founding engineer, and Multiverse Computing’s former COO.
Members Only
Sequoia
8.19.26 - Physical-World Founders from Hadrian’s Engineering Ranks + Form Energy’s VP Eng, Interim CFO & Early Leaders
Hadrian engineering, product, and manufacturing talent, plus Form Energy’s former VP Engineering, 2nd finance hire & interim CFO, and battery leaders building newcos.
Members Only
Sequoia
8.18.26 - Fish Audio & Palona AI Co-Founders + Neros COO & SpaceX Alum
Two Fish Audio co-founders and its founding engineer, Neros’ former COO and SpaceX veteran, plus Palona AI’s co-founding engineering lead building newco.
Members Only
DST
8.17.26 - Founders & Early Builders from Higgsfield, Simile, Gravis Robotics & SkyPilot
Higgsfield’s founding researcher, Simile’s 1st hire and 5th MTS, a Gravis Robotics co-founder, and SkyPilot talent building YC-backed Tokenless.
Members Only
Top Founders of the Week
8.14.26 - Top Founders of the Week
Members Only
Menlo Ventures
8.13.26 - The Lovable Mafia
Lovable’s founding engineer, 1st hire, founding team, ~20th employee, and early GTM builders spinning out — including three YC S26 founders and an a16z Speedrun-backed team.
Members Only
Decart
8.12.26 - The Decart Mafia
Decart’s founding product and engineering team, COO and VP Ops, plus MIT AI researchers spinning out as the $6B–$7B company explores a sale.