Previous Affiliates

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  1. Sarah Joyce Franklin

    Chief Executive Officer at Lattice; Board Member at PagerDuty

    1. Lattice

      Chief Executive Officer

      2024-01 – Present

    2. Grand Central Rail

      Senior Sales Engineer

      Present

    3. Peregrine Systems

      Pre-sales Engineer

      Present

  2. Glenn

    AI GTM Leader

    1. OpenRouter

      Head of Sales

      2026 – Present

    2. Blockaid

      VP of Sales

      2024-01 – 2026-09

    3. Alchemy

      VP of Sales

      2021 – 2024

  3. Edo Liberty

    Founder and Chief Scientist at Pinecone

    1. Pinecone

      Founder, Chief Scientist

      2019-06 – Present

    2. Amazon Web Services

      Director of Research, Head of Amazon AI Labs

      2016-08 – 2019-03

    3. yahooinc

      Senior Research Director

      2009-11 – 2016-07

  4. Zachary Lipton

    Co-founder of Abridge and CMU professor

    1. Abridge

      Cofounder, Chief Technology Officer & Chief Scientific Officer

      2019-01 – Present

    2. Carnegie Mellon University

      Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Machine Learning

      2018-01 – Present

    3. Microsoft

      Research Intern

      Present

  5. Arvind Arikatla

    1. Judgment Labs

      MTS

      2026-08 – Present

    2. LinkedIn

      Senior Software Engineer

      2022-03 – 2026-07

    3. Snapchat

      Software Engineer

      2021-07 – 2022-02

  6. nader dabit

    Growth at Cognition

    1. Cognition

      Growth

      2026-02 – Present

    2. Eigen Labs

      Director of Developer Relations

      2024-02 – 2026-02

    3. Aave Companies

      Director of Developer Relations

      2022-10 – 2024-02

  7. Sam Sokolin

    AI product engineering

    1. SpaceX

      Software Engineer

      2026-08 – Present

    2. Cursor

      Software Engineer

      2025-12 – 2026-08

    3. Rippling

      Staff Software Engineer / TLM

      2023-06 – 2025-12

  8. Brian Schultz

    Vice President, Corporate Development and Ventures at Circle

    1. Circle

      Vice President, Corporate Development and Ventures

      2022-03 – Present

    2. Amazon Web Services

      Director, Corporate Development

      2018-03 – 2022-03

    3. Microsoft

      Managing Director, Strategic Investments

      2015-03 – 2018-03

  9. Dan O'Brien

    Sr. Solution Architect at Databricks and Co-Founder of Diplosphere

    1. Databricks

      Sr. Solution Architect

      2025-03 – Present

    2. Diplosphere

      Co-Founder

      2023-09 – Present

    3. Amazon Web Services

      Venture Capital & Startup Business Development, New Zealand

      2018-09 – 2023-08

  10. Antje Barth

    Member of Technical Staff at Amazon AGI, AI product leader, O’Reilly author, and keynote speaker.

    1. Amazon

      Member of Technical Staff

      2025 – Present

    2. Amazon Web Services

      Principal Technical Lead, AI Product Strategy

      2019 – 2025

    3. MapR

      Technical Evangelist

      2016 – 2019

  11. Edsel Rivera

    Talent at Base Power

    1. Base Power Company

      Talent

      2026-01 – Present

    2. Last Energy

      Senior Technical Recruiter

      2025-09 – 2025-12

    3. Meta

      Senior Technical Recruiter (Contract)

      2024-12 – 2025-09

  12. Christian Crowley

    Partner, a16z crypto Go-To-Market

    1. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

      Partner, a16z crypto Go-To-Market

      2025-06 – Present

    2. Sanctum AI

      COO & Co-Founder

      2023-06 – 2025-05

    3. Q.xyz

      COO & Co-Founder

      2021-11 – 2023-06

  13. Emily Gavrilenko

    Product at SpaceXAI; previously growth at Cursor and Roboflow

    1. SpaceXAI

      Product

      2026-08 – Present

    2. Cursor

      Growth Team

      2025-09 – Present

    3. Roboflow

      Deployments Growth Engineer

      2024-06 – 2025-03

  14. Harry Mellsop

    Co-founder of Antioch

    1. Antioch

      Co-Founder

      2025-07 – Present

    2. Crimson Education

      Advisor

      2022-08 – Present

    3. Chainalysis

      Head of Engineering, Data Solutions

      2023-05 – 2025-07

  15. Rohan Ramani

    Engineer

    1. Netic

      Builder

      2026-01 – Present

    2. Windsurf

      Forward Deployed Engineer (Pre & Post Sales)

      2024-10 – 2026-01

    3. Cognition

      Forward Deployed Engineer (Pre & Post Sales)

      2024-10 – 2026-01

  16. Alec Jenab

    1. Salient

      Applied AI

      2025-04 – Present

    2. Materri

      Co-founder & CTO

      2024-01 – 2025-03

    3. Amazon Web Services

      Machine Learning Engineer II

      2022-09 – 2023-10

  17. Vedant Nanda

    AI scientist at Mistral AI

    1. Mistral AI

      AI Scientist

      2025-11 – Present

    2. Aleph Alpha

      AI Researcher

      2024-06 – 2025-10

    3. Amazon Web Services

      Applied Science Intern

      2023-06 – 2023-08

  18. Bence Redmond

    founder @ hoplite

    1. Hoplite

      Founder

      2026-03 – Present

    2. Amazon Web Services

      SWE Intern

      2025-06 – 2025-12

  19. Amandeep Khurana

    Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, leading Forward Deployed Engineering

    1. Anthropic

      Member of Technical Staff

      2026-06 – Present

    2. Desi Vitals

      Founder and Author

      2026-04 – Present

    3. Amazon Web Services

      Principal Product Manager, AWS Bedrock AgentCore

      2025-09 – 2026-05

  20. Gorkem Yurtseven

    Co-Founder and CTO of fal

    1. fal

      Co-founder and CTO

      2021 – Present

    2. Amazon Web Services

      Machine-learning infrastructure engineer

      2021

  21. Prof. Anima Anandkumar

    Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech

    1. Caltech

      Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences

      2017 – Present

    2. NVIDIA

      Senior Director of AI Research

      2018 – 2023

    3. Amazon Web Services

      Principal Scientist

      2017

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