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9.10.26 Top Founders of the Week
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Top Founders of the Week

9.10.26 Top Founders of the Week

Cognition’s engineers and researchers, Clay’s 1st and 5th employees, Wonderful’s former GM & Lokalise founder, and Unacademy’s co-founder & CTO starting new
9.9.26 - The Mach Industries Mafia
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Sequoia

9.9.26 - The Mach Industries Mafia

Mach’s founding engineers, first manufacturing & supply chain leader, VP Engineering and integrated systems head spinning out to build across defense, aerospace, subsea robotics and consumer hardware.
9.8.26 - The Harvey Mafia
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Harvey

9.8.26 - The Harvey Mafia

Harvey’s founding AI engineering leader, VP Engineering, Head of Security and acquired Mirage founders, plus early product, design and research talent building again.
9.4.26 - SoftBank-Backed Co-Founder & Early Engineer + $30B Crusoe’s VP Eng & Infra Leaders
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Crusoe

9.4.26 - SoftBank-Backed Co-Founder & Early Engineer + $30B Crusoe’s VP Eng & Infra Leaders

Unacademy’s co-founder & CTO and early technical talent, alongside Crusoe’s VP Engineering, cloud infrastructure director and distributed computing engineers building new AI infrastructure companies.
9.3.26 - First Round-Backed Co-Founder + HiddenLayer Founding Engineer and Repeat Founders from Wonderful AI
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Wonderful

9.3.26 - First Round-Backed Co-Founder + HiddenLayer Founding Engineer and Repeat Founders from Wonderful AI

Aranya co-founder, HiddenLayer founding engineer, and Wonderful’s former Baltic GM, Argentina & Chile CTO, and Palantir-trained CTO Office leader building again.
8.31.26 - The Clay Mafia
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SaaS

8.31.26 - The Clay Mafia

Clay’s 1st and 5th employees, 1st marketing hire, early growth and engineering leaders spinning out to build across AI, fintech, healthcare, and physical sciences.
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.
8.24.26 - 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.
8.21.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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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.
8.17.26 - Founders & Early Builders from Higgsfield, Simile, Gravis Robotics & SkyPilot
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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.
8.14.26 - Top Founders of the Week
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8.14.26 - Top Founders of the Week

8.13.26 - The Lovable Mafia
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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.