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8.30.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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Top Founders of the Week

8.30.26 - Top Founders of the Week

Perplexity’s earliest engineers and acquired founders, Blue Origin’s original team and SpaceX veterans, plus Hugging Face’s founding research crew and research leads spinning out.
8.25.26 - The Hugging Face Mafia
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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
8.24.26 - The Perplexity Mafia
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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.
8.11.26 - The Whatnot Mafia & Cambridge Aerospace Founding Talent
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8.11.26 - The Whatnot Mafia & Cambridge Aerospace Founding Talent

Acquired founders, OpenAI and early growth talent from Whatnot building again, alongside founding-era engineers leaving $3.4B Cambridge Aerospace.
8.4.26 - The Airtable Mafia
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Airtable

8.4.26 - The Airtable Mafia

Former Airtable CTOs, GMs, founding leaders, and acquired founders.
7.19.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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Top Founders of the Week

7.19.26 - Top Founders of the Week

Prime Intellect's founding research and protocol leaders, Helsing's AI directors, deployed engineers, and acquired founder, Shaped's co-founder following its Whatnot acquisition, Valarian's co-founders, TerraFirma's interim COO, and MicroAGI's co-founder.
7.15.26 - The Helsing Mafia
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Helsing

7.15.26 - The Helsing Mafia

Helsing-acquired founder, AI directors, deployed AI engineers, and product leaders building Europe's next generation of defense startups.
6.24.26 - The Ramp Mafia
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Ramp

6.24.26 - The Ramp Mafia

Ramp's 20th FTE and Ramp Labs lead, Ramp-acquired founders behind Venue and Cohere, founding AI and mobile engineers, and Mercor's 13th FTE
6.18.26 - The Databricks Mafia
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Databricks

6.18.26 - The Databricks Mafia

Databricks product and engineering leaders, acquisition talent from MosaicML and Arcion, and founders building AI infrastructure, agents, and developer tools
6.15.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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Top Founders of the Week

6.15.26 - Top Founders of the Week

Ex DeepMind Researchers Leaving Mistral, Founders Behind a $100M Exit and a 9-Figure Company, and Founding Engineers from Poetic
6.8.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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Top Founders of the Week

6.8.26 - Top Founders of the Week

The co-founders of Luma AI, Liftoff, Basis, Lila Sciences, Forage, Impulse Space's COO and first technical hire, and founders acquired by DriveNets
6.6.26 - A16Z-backed Unicorn Founder & The Liftoff Mobile Mafia
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6.6.26 - A16Z-backed Unicorn Founder & The Liftoff Mobile Mafia

Co-founders of Luma AI and Liftoff, a founding member of Tripo, and repeat founders from the Coralogix ecosystem