Previous Affiliates

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  1. Leigh Marie Braswell

    Partner at Kleiner Perkins

    1. Kleiner Perkins

      Partner

      2023 – Present

    2. Avoca

      Board Member

      Present

    3. Poetic

      Board Member

      Present

  2. Akshat Bubna

    Co-founder and CTO at Modal

    1. Modal

      Co-Founder & CTO

      2021-08 – Present

    2. Scale

      Staff Software Engineer

      2018-05 – 2021-08

  3. Shuby Deshpande

    Engineer • Researcher

    1. Canto Reality

      Engineering

      2023 – Present

    2. Tools for Humanity

      Engineering

      2020 – 2022

    3. Carnegie Mellon University

      Research

      2018 – 2021

  4. Vinjai Vale

    Product Engineering Lead at Applied Compute

    1. Applied Compute

      Product Engineering Lead

      Present

    2. Watershed

      AI Acceleration Lead

      2022 – 2025

    3. Scale AI

      ML Infrastructure and Full-stack Software Engineering

      2021 – 2021

  5. Pawan Deshpande

    Product / Growth / Investor / Founder / NLP Researcher

    1. Curata Ventures

      Angel Investor

      2025 – Present

    2. Galileo AI

      Product Lead, Product-Led Growth

      2024 – 2025

    3. Linea Labs

      Head of Product & Growth

      2023 – 2024

  6. Cynthia Chen

    Engineer at Decagon

    1. Decagon

      Engineer

      2024-08 – Present

    2. Scale AI

      Software Engineering Intern

      2023 – 2023

    3. IMC Financial Markets

      Quantitative Trading Intern

      2022 – 2022

  7. Heather Horniak

    Chief of Staff, Global Affairs

    1. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

      Chief of Staff, Global Affairs

      2026-08 – Present

    2. Scale AI

      Head of Global Public Sector Communications

      2023-02 – 2025-03

    3. Central Intelligence Agency

      Media Spokesperson, Mission Center Deputy Chief of Staff, and Analyst

      2007 – 2023

  8. Luv Kothari

    1. Snowflake

      GM, FDE (Forward Deployed Engineering)

      2025-04 – Present

    2. Scale AI

      VP Product

      2023-03 – 2025-03

    3. Coinbase

      Group Product Manager

      2022 – 2023-03

  9. Avery Yip

    1. Handshake

      Director of Engineering

      2025-01 – Present

    2. Scale AI

      Human Data

      2024 – 2025

    3. Vessel

      Co-Founder and CEO

      2021 – 2024

  10. Seeam Shahid Noor

    1. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

      Investing Partner

      2026 – Present

    2. Scale

      Product Lead

      2024 – 2026

    3. various companies

      And more

      2018 – 2024

  11. Muharrem Şenyıl

    Design Lead at Aaru building AI products, design systems, and code-driven experiences.

    1. Aaru

      Design Lead

      2026-02 – Present

    2. Seqholdings

      Design Lead

      2025 – 2026

    3. Scale

      Design Lead

      2024 – 2025

  12. Phillip Yan

    CEO @ Maingen (YC S26)

    1. Maingen

      CEO

      2026-06 – Present

    2. Coinbase

      Software Engineer

      2025 – 2025

    3. 0x

      Software Engineer

      2025 – 2025

  13. Priya Khandelwal

    1. Nixo

      Founder & CEO

      2025-06 – Present

    2. Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

      Machine Learning Systems Researcher, Hazy Research

      2025-01 – 2026-06

    3. Scale AI

      Machine Learning Researcher (Intern)

      2024-06 – 2024-09

  14. Kevin Zhu

    CS @ MIT · prev OpenAI, Bridgewater, Scale AI

    1. OpenAI

      Member of Technical Staff Intern (Codex)

      2026-05 – 2026-08

    2. Bridgewater Associates

      Research, AIA Labs (post-training)

      2026-02 – 2026-05

    3. Scale AI

      Engineering (growth engineering, SEAL research)

      2025-05 – 2025-08

  15. Neil Kale

    Founding Member of Technical Staff at Trajectory

    1. Trajectory

      Founding Member of Technical Staff

      2026-02 – Present

    2. Scale AI

      Security and Policy Research Lab Fellow

      2025-10 – 2026-01

    3. GoDaddy

      Machine Learning Scientist Intern

      2024-05 – 2024-08

  16. Andrei Kozyrev

    Partner at Abstract

    1. Abstract

      Partner

      Present

    2. Scale

      Chief of Staff to Michael Kratsios

      Past

    3. Thrive Capital

      Entrepreneur in Residence

      Past

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