(0051) special announcement + ai interface founders

Hey, this is poach.vc, where we help you discover pre-seed / seed deal flow by tracking the people the top VCs are interacting with online.

Launching Poach Data

After 50 newsletter issues and ~400 subscribers, we are excited to announce Poach Data: scalable and identified Twitter tracking. We will:

• Track follows (or followers) for as many Twitter accounts as you need (VCs, founders, companies, accelerators, etc).

• Attach LinkedIn profiles for each followed account.

• Label the accounts with classifications like “founder”, “funded”, “engineering”, “design”, etc.

• Email you a CSV of this data every week (other integrations are possible).

If you want more founder leads, more exclusive leads, or leads for your portfolio companies (that have competitors with similar ICPs and active social media accounts), please check out Poach Data or book a call!

People

• Thariq Shihipar

  • Ex-MIT Media Lab and ex-YC founder, now “exploring, building” as part of South Park Commons for the last 9mo. Looking at building new AI interfaces.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Mike Ashcroft

  • Ex-Shopify engineer building VibeReads to help make complex texts more accessible using AI.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Maor Shlomo

  • Ex-founder of Explorium ($75M Series C) now working on Base44, a software prototyping tool for the last 3mo.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Andrew Kim

  • Ex-Tesla/Atlassian intern that recently moved to SF and became an OnDeck Fellow. Unclear if he’s currently starting something, but definitely seems interested in the startup space.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Funded Founders Followed

• https://x.com/prithviramak

• https://x.com/nairtu965

• https://x.com/DakotahBlueRice

• https://x.com/glangley

Investors Followed

• https://x.com/akshay__mehra

• https://x.com/lil_tuna_again

• https://x.com/chinnusenthil1

• https://x.com/AaronAnandji

• https://x.com/Monsson_

• https://x.com/khan_ahmad12

• https://x.com/MS_BASE44

Engineers Followed

• https://x.com/zacqoo

• https://x.com/allmineandwater

• https://x.com/nicholas_chong_

• https://x.com/shireenrajora

• https://x.com/jorenbroekema

• https://x.com/adi__ti

• https://x.com/khan_ahmad12

Designers Followed

• https://x.com/lorenzodelijser

Researchers Followed

• https://x.com/kastacholamine

• https://x.com/MattBMcDermott

• https://x.com/MarroSamuele

• https://x.com/DennisSoemers

Notes

• We curate interesting people that have some signals that they might be interesting founders either now or in the future. They are not guaranteed to be currently founding or interested in investment.

• If you have any questions, suggestions, or need custom tracking, please reach out to contact@poach.vc

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