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People

• Steven Li

  • Meta AI engineer building Brightroom, an AI-powered platform to help students apply to top colleges.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Mike Turck

  • Co-founder of an AI Grant company Forefront which runs and fine-tunes open-source LLMs on your data. Previously some engineering experience at Deloitte and Transmira before another startup attempt.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Chris Curtis

  • Marketing and customer experience expert now working on hype ai, building generative AI tools for marketers.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Justin Jay Wang

  • Designer with studio experience and working at OpenAI. There’s no specific signals that he’s starting a company, but with the combinatin of drama at OpenAI, just passing his 6yr mark, and VC interest, he might be worth keeping on the radar.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Anish Tondwalkar

  • Ex-Google Brain, Ex-OpenAI. Founding dmodel to allow manipulating internal LLM “thoughts” in realtime. Already raised pre-seed.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Nicholas Charriere

  • Raised money to work on Srcbook, an AI app builder. Previously an engineer at Cruise and Pinterest.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Veronica Prilutskaya

  • Co-founder / CPO at Replexica, powering AI-based website localization. Part of YC F24. Previously in data science before a few startup attempts.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Sergey Kryvets

  • Engineer with banking and healthcare experience working on a new project.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Programs

• Nautilus Quest

  • VCs are showing some interest in this program, where young people (under 22 years old) are hosted in SF to work on projects. Tops VCS are already showing interest; this might be a source of interesting talent a few years down the line.

  • Twitter / Website

Notes

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