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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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Top Founders of the Week

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.
8.12.26 - The Decart Mafia
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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.
8.11.26 - The Whatnot Mafia & Cambridge Aerospace Founding Talent
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Lightspeed

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.
7.31.26 - Function’s Co-Founding CTO, Antora’s CFO & Sequoia-Backed Summer Health Co-Founder
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A16Z

7.31.26 - Function’s Co-Founding CTO, Antora’s CFO & Sequoia-Backed Summer Health Co-Founder

Function Health’s Co-Founding CTO, Antora’s CFO and 5th commercial hire, the Co-Founder of Lux- and Sequoia-backed Summer Health, and Sail Biomedicines’ Chief Scientific Officer