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The rising talent making the biggest impact in 2026, as nominated by their peers
17Sigil Wen
Founder and CEO of Conway Research; Thiel Fellow
Dhruv Gupta
Product at a16z
9Kashvi Parekh
Social Marketing Lead at Boundless · Writer of Flow State
9Fawziyah
Organizes and supports Cursor community events
9Zach Dell
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Base Power Company
9Theo Jaffee
Co-founder and host at MTS
Ben Roy
Writer & angel investor
8Suhas Sumukh
Co-founder & COO at localhost HQ
Mina Fahmi
Co-founder & CEO at Sandbar
Sofia Puccini
Host at MTS
7Harry Mellsop
Co-founder of Antioch
7Mene Mazarakis
Fund Manager at Mene Capital
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7Anirudh Pai
General Partner, Robot Ventures
6Jade Franson
Product Designer at Perplexity
6Arnav Mehta
Founding Engineer at CAMB.AI
6Emily Yuan
Co-founder and COO of Corgi
5Julia Li
Talent at Persona
5Daksh Gupta
Co-founder & CEO · Greptile
5Shrey Birmiwal
Machine Learning Engineering Intern at Morph; independent AI researcher at JW Labs
5Sophia Dew
Host at MTS
4Annie Liao
Founder of Solaris and Build Club
4clare ❤️🔥
Technical programs at Thinking Machines Lab
4Emmi Wu
Interdisciplinary product designer studying design and consumer psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
4Matthew Yu
CS @ Stanford
4jake 🗺️
Former Thrive Capital
3Nikhil Srinivasan
Founder & CEO at Infinite, building compliant stablecoin payment infrastructure for global businesses.
3Amir Fischer
Founder of Noar Ventures; host of Generating Alpha
3Eli Goldfine
Growth Team at MNX
3Matt Shumer
AI investor; former HyperWrite CEO
Rosie Sargsian
numbers to narrative @ Ramp
2Kanan Rengaraju
Founder of Apthorp
2Tommy Geoco
Founder at Inflight; founder of Enjoyers Media; designer, filmmaker, and media creator
2Brent Liang
Co-founder and CEO of MTS
2Zain Javaid
Founder & CEO at Ghost
1Sakib Jamal
Investor and Gallery Ventures advisor; co-author of The Young VC’s Handbook
1jess yin
Creative strategist building digital worlds and interactive web experiences
Collin Qian
1Thijs Simonian
Stanford CS student and builder; formerly OpenAI Robotics
1Hannah Gao
Working on memory and personalization at OpenAI; Stanford student studying mathematics and computer science.
1Forrest Heath
Founder at Somos, building internet infrastructure for developing regions
Alex Heintze
Gary DelPonte
AI and immersive audio researcher
1Madison Kanna
Inference and post-training at Fireworks AI
1Adil Alimzhanov
Jenna Wolf
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