(0129) The Palantir→Snowflake→Stealth Pipeline

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Early Stage Founders

• Gokul Cholaghar (San Francisco)

  • 2x founder now building Libra AI, an AI-first way to manage your workforce. Previously founded Qwk and Beezo Transportation Services, spanning enterprise SaaS and consumer internet.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Miyu Horiuchi (San Francisco)

  • Toyota Full-Ride Scholar and UPenn grad building a food tech robot startup. Previously co-founded a 3D food printing company that was acquired and served as COO at Capy Inc. Ex-Sony engineer who’s been featured on podcasts discussing entrepreneurship. Currently part of the Accel community.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Pascal Tuan (San Diego)

  • PhD in ML & NLP from UCSB, previously research intern at Meta, now founder of Orchat AI working on chatbots and sequence generation.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn