(0124) huge list: 18 early stage founders

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People

• Cuneyt Mertayak

  • Engineering Manager at Coinbase institutional and founding member at Udemy, now co-founder of AgentDock building AI agents. Also serves as engineering advisor to multiple companies.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Lauri Kesküll (San Francisco)

  • Co-founder and CEO of userjourneys.ai, focused on building human-computer interfaces. Previously co-founded Rivenor AI and has experience in AI research and neuroscience.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Pedro Henrich (Lisbon, Portugal)

  • Founder and CEO of CLAi (digital twins), which has some initial funding. Mentoring at Longevity Biotech Fellowship. Focused on radical life extension, enhanced humans, and digital twins, exploring what it means to be human in post-AGI societies.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Albert Lu (San Francisco)

  • Co-founder of a stealth startup, previously founding engineer at Canvas AI (YC F24). Currently software engineer at Alexis AI.

  • LinkedIn

• Althea H. (Stanford)

  • Stanford student turned software engineer at Check Point Software, now co-founder of Hoplynk. Previously interned in data science at Emerson Collective.

  • LinkedIn

• Ashok Devireddy (San Jose)

  • UC Berkeley M.E.T. (EECS + Business) grad and former Google research intern, previously worked as a machine learning researcher at Berkeley AI Research. Now co-founder of a stealth startup.

  • LinkedIn