(0126) Figma Engineers to Teen Prodigies: AI Infrastructure Meets Beauty Tech & Social Discovery

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Early Stage Founders

• Matt Dailey (Berkeley)

  • Former Figma engineering manager and AI applied research engineer, previously at Palantir. Now founder of ref.tools, providing context to coding agents.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Andrew Sobko (Chicago)

  • Founder of Argentum AI, building next-generation compute infrastructure with open access and high security. Forbes Business Council member since 2020.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Blake Cook (Salt Lake City)

  • Co-founder of UMPH, building an AI-powered app to personalize beauty and simplify aesthetic clinic growth. Previously worked in growth at Zeni and pricing/strategy at HF Sinclair.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn