Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

Gaurav

Results-driven, hands-on software engineering leader with 18+ years of experience in building products. Solid communicator, able to forge relationships with key stakeholders. Brings joy, empathy, experience, and positive energy to the workplace.

Katrin

AI researcher with 15 years of experience, mostly in NLP, machine translation and speech recognition. Previously at Google Research. Interested in AI for inclusivity and accessibility in speech domain. Here to explore the open source AI world.

Ben

Co-founder & CTO of Mesa. Prev: YC S24, Census, Microsoft

Grey

Founder Fellow 2. Currently building Starlight, the financial OS for web3 teams 💫

Hamidah

I'm a research affiliate at the Topos Institute helping develop CatColab, a structured model editor. I'm interested in how we can meaningfully document and make sense of procedural knowledge (e.g., with Git). I'm also a non-resident fellow at IFP where I focus on high-skilled immigration policy.

Scott

Software Engineer with experience in Autonomous Driving, VR/AR and On-Device Machine Learning. North Carolina -> SF Bay Area.

Andrew

Andrew has spent his career building consumer software like Apple and Coinbase. Most recently, he cofounded Ziina, a venture backed startup based in Dubai on a mission to bring economic freedom to every person in the Middle East.

Tarin

I am working on tackling robotics and AI by throwing out almost all of the existing paradigms. Instead, I want to develop and refine ideas around artificial life, virtual biology, etc. This will draw heavily on simulations, and biological principles. Furthermore, I am seeking to stand up a new type of organization to do this, a cross between a venture-studio, research-lab, and a traditional start-up. Bio: Angel investor and technologist, 20+ years of experience, Apple (Autonomous Vehicles), CTO @ Voyage (Autonomous Vehicles, acquired by Cruise), Director R&D @ CTRL-Labs, (Brain Machine Interfaces, acquired by Meta), US Army Research Labs / Naval Underwater Warfare Center / RADAR/SONAR imaging and autonomous systems / Neurosys computational neuroscience. (BSEE @ GMU 2004 / MSEE @ George Washington University 2007)

Omar

Web3 FF3 exploring gaming - https://www.omarmezenner.com

Adam

Former Product Head at Palantir, multi-time CPO, and owner of First Principles, a product agency for emerging tech companies. Adam is the author and host of www.emergentproduct.com and is passionate about solving complex missions and AI-First products.