Discovering Tomorrow's PayPal Mafia Today

Highlighting founders emerging from top startups

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1.23.26 - Top Founders of The Week
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1.23.26 - Top Founders of The Week

Repeat founders within ClickHouse and Pennylane, Anchorage founding engineers, a Cosmos co-founder, and senior operators from Zipline and Baseten.
1.22.26 - Cosmos Founder Starting Anew and The Anchorage & BitGo Mafias
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1.22.26 - Cosmos Founder Starting Anew and The Anchorage & BitGo Mafias

A Cosmos co-founder, Anchorage founding engineers, and repeat founders within BitGo.
1.21.26 - The Zipline and Baseten Mafias
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1.21.26 - The Zipline and Baseten Mafias

Repeat founders and founding engineers from Zipline, plus Baseten engineers and sales team
1.20.26 - ClickHouse-Acquired Founder and Sequoia-Backed Founder On the Map
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1.20.26 - ClickHouse-Acquired Founder and Sequoia-Backed Founder On the Map

Repeat founders within ClickHouse and Pennylane, alongside early product, AI, and GTM leaders emerging from ElevenLabs, Terralayr, and Ethos.
1.16.26 Top Founders of the Week
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1.16.26 Top Founders of the Week

Early product engineers and MTS from Anthropic, a Chief of Staff from SkildAI, the first product hire from Discord, and AI-chip engineers spinning out of Etched and Cerebras.
1.15.26 - The Cerebras Mafia
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1.15.26 - The Cerebras Mafia

Principal MTS and research scientists from Cerebras, a Chief of Staff from SkildAI, technical PM leadership from Alpaca, and early engineers and interns spinning out of Harmonic.
1.14.26 - The Etched Mafia
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1.14.26 - The Etched Mafia

Senior MTS and founding ML scientists from Etched, defense AI founders from Harmattan, and early product and AI leaders emerging from Aikido Security and Converge Bio.
1.13.26 - The Anthropic Mafia
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1.13.26 - The Anthropic Mafia

Anthropic’s early product, research, and MTS talent, plus repeat founders building across AI infrastructure, policy, and safety.
1.12.26 - The Discord Mafia
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1.12.26 - The Discord Mafia

Discord’s founder transitioning to the board, its first product hire, senior product, data, and business operators, plus early PM and engineering talent spinning out post-IPO filing.
1.9.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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1.9.26 - Top Founders of the Week

Groq and Motive co-founders, founding MTS from xAI, senior architects from Cyera, and an early technical hire from LMArena.

Repeat Founder

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2.27.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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2.27.26 - Top Founders of the Week

Co-Founders of Cursor, Freeform, Fluidstack, Orum; creators of Stripe Checkout/Atlas/Connect/Dashboard; Playco CTO & Statsig founding engineer
2.26.25 - The Stripe Mafia (Pt. 2)
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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
2.24.26 - The Stripe Mafia
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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

Founding Engineer

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2.27.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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2.27.26 - Top Founders of the Week

Co-Founders of Cursor, Freeform, Fluidstack, Orum; creators of Stripe Checkout/Atlas/Connect/Dashboard; Playco CTO & Statsig founding engineer
2.20.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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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
2.18.26 - The Kavak and Legora Mafias
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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.

Repeat Founding Engineer

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2.24.26 - The Stripe Mafia
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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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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
2.20.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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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
2.20.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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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
2.17.26 - PolyAI’s COO, a Repeat YC Founder, and Senior Talent from Braintrust & Temporal
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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.
2.12.26 - The Databricks Mafia
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2.12.26 - The Databricks Mafia

Acquired founders, MosaicML leaders, Spark architects, and MLflow authors building across security, inference, and infrastructure

Applied AI

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2.20.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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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
2.11.26 - Repeat Greylock and Founders Fund-Backed Founders Exploring Second Acts
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2.11.26 - Repeat Greylock and Founders Fund-Backed Founders Exploring Second Acts

Spinouts from Monaco and Bretton, Twilio Co-Founder free agents, and Garner data leadership building in AI, robotics, and healthcare.
2.10.26 - The Harvey & Runway Mafias
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2.10.26 - The Harvey & Runway Mafias

Sequoia-backed repeat founders leaving Harvey and founding members of Runway, Cohere, and Pika

Fintech

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2.27.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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2.27.26 - Top Founders of the Week

Co-Founders of Cursor, Freeform, Fluidstack, Orum; creators of Stripe Checkout/Atlas/Connect/Dashboard; Playco CTO & Statsig founding engineer
2.20.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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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
2.11.26 - Repeat Greylock and Founders Fund-Backed Founders Exploring Second Acts
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2.11.26 - Repeat Greylock and Founders Fund-Backed Founders Exploring Second Acts

Spinouts from Monaco and Bretton, Twilio Co-Founder free agents, and Garner data leadership building in AI, robotics, and healthcare.

Infrastructure

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2.20.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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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
2.17.26 - PolyAI’s COO, a Repeat YC Founder, and Senior Talent from Braintrust & Temporal
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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.
2.12.26 - The Databricks Mafia
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2.12.26 - The Databricks Mafia

Acquired founders, MosaicML leaders, Spark architects, and MLflow authors building across security, inference, and infrastructure

Defense

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2.5.26 - Repeat Founders Backed by Khosla & Bessemer in Stealth
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2.5.26 - Repeat Founders Backed by Khosla & Bessemer in Stealth

Former Drift, Turnstile, Machina Labs, Second Measure founders, alongside operators from Goodfire, TRM Labs, and Fibr
1.14.26 - The Etched Mafia
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1.14.26 - The Etched Mafia

Senior MTS and founding ML scientists from Etched, defense AI founders from Harmattan, and early product and AI leaders emerging from Aikido Security and Converge Bio.

Biotech

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1.14.26 - The Etched Mafia
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1.14.26 - The Etched Mafia

Senior MTS and founding ML scientists from Etched, defense AI founders from Harmattan, and early product and AI leaders emerging from Aikido Security and Converge Bio.

Healthcare

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2.11.26 - Repeat Greylock and Founders Fund-Backed Founders Exploring Second Acts
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2.11.26 - Repeat Greylock and Founders Fund-Backed Founders Exploring Second Acts

Spinouts from Monaco and Bretton, Twilio Co-Founder free agents, and Garner data leadership building in AI, robotics, and healthcare.
2.6.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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2.6.26 - Top Founders of the Week

12 Repeat Founders, Co-Creator of Veo, and Founding Engineer of Parallel Web Systems
2.4.26 - Repeat Founders with $200M Exit, USV-Backed Founder, and Celestial AI's CTO
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2.4.26 - Repeat Founders with $200M Exit, USV-Backed Founder, and Celestial AI's CTO

Repeat founders from the Day AI founder’s prior startup, a USV-backed founder, Celestial AI's CTO, and early builders from Uptool, Kindred, and Claroty.

Crypto

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2.5.26 - Repeat Founders Backed by Khosla & Bessemer in Stealth
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2.5.26 - Repeat Founders Backed by Khosla & Bessemer in Stealth

Former Drift, Turnstile, Machina Labs, Second Measure founders, alongside operators from Goodfire, TRM Labs, and Fibr
1.22.26 - Cosmos Founder Starting Anew and The Anchorage & BitGo Mafias
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1.22.26 - Cosmos Founder Starting Anew and The Anchorage & BitGo Mafias

A Cosmos co-founder, Anchorage founding engineers, and repeat founders within BitGo.
1.12.26 - The Discord Mafia
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1.12.26 - The Discord Mafia

Discord’s founder transitioning to the board, its first product hire, senior product, data, and business operators, plus early PM and engineering talent spinning out post-IPO filing.

Cybersecurity

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2.4.26 - Repeat Founders with $200M Exit, USV-Backed Founder, and Celestial AI's CTO
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2.4.26 - Repeat Founders with $200M Exit, USV-Backed Founder, and Celestial AI's CTO

Repeat founders from the Day AI founder’s prior startup, a USV-backed founder, Celestial AI's CTO, and early builders from Uptool, Kindred, and Claroty.
1.14.26 - The Etched Mafia
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1.14.26 - The Etched Mafia

Senior MTS and founding ML scientists from Etched, defense AI founders from Harmattan, and early product and AI leaders emerging from Aikido Security and Converge Bio.
1.9.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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1.9.26 - Top Founders of the Week

Groq and Motive co-founders, founding MTS from xAI, senior architects from Cyera, and an early technical hire from LMArena.

Robotics

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2.27.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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2.27.26 - Top Founders of the Week

Co-Founders of Cursor, Freeform, Fluidstack, Orum; creators of Stripe Checkout/Atlas/Connect/Dashboard; Playco CTO & Statsig founding engineer
2.2.26 - Poetiq + Kaia Health Founders and Founding Engineers from Fieldguide, Concourse, and RobCo
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2.2.26 - Poetiq + Kaia Health Founders and Founding Engineers from Fieldguide, Concourse, and RobCo

Poetiq’s co-founder, Kaia Health’s founding team post-acquisition, and early engineers from Fieldguide, Concourse, and RobCo.
1.21.26 - The Zipline and Baseten Mafias
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1.21.26 - The Zipline and Baseten Mafias

Repeat founders and founding engineers from Zipline, plus Baseten engineers and sales team

Energy

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2.11.26 - Repeat Greylock and Founders Fund-Backed Founders Exploring Second Acts
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2.11.26 - Repeat Greylock and Founders Fund-Backed Founders Exploring Second Acts

Spinouts from Monaco and Bretton, Twilio Co-Founder free agents, and Garner data leadership building in AI, robotics, and healthcare.
1.20.26 - ClickHouse-Acquired Founder and Sequoia-Backed Founder On the Map
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1.20.26 - ClickHouse-Acquired Founder and Sequoia-Backed Founder On the Map

Repeat founders within ClickHouse and Pennylane, alongside early product, AI, and GTM leaders emerging from ElevenLabs, Terralayr, and Ethos.

Consumer

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2.20.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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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
2.4.26 - Repeat Founders with $200M Exit, USV-Backed Founder, and Celestial AI's CTO
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2.4.26 - Repeat Founders with $200M Exit, USV-Backed Founder, and Celestial AI's CTO

Repeat founders from the Day AI founder’s prior startup, a USV-backed founder, Celestial AI's CTO, and early builders from Uptool, Kindred, and Claroty.
1.22.26 - Cosmos Founder Starting Anew and The Anchorage & BitGo Mafias
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1.22.26 - Cosmos Founder Starting Anew and The Anchorage & BitGo Mafias

A Cosmos co-founder, Anchorage founding engineers, and repeat founders within BitGo.