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Vetted Co-Founders in California
Pre-screened and vetted in California.
Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI, FinTech, SaaS, and platform growth
Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, SaaS, and data platforms
Junior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in NLP, LLM evaluation, and recommendation systems
Executive Robotics & AI Founder specializing in Embodied AI and Robotics Data Infrastructure
Sammy Datwani
Executive biotech leader specializing in microfluidics, diagnostics, and life science tools
“Biotech founder building a de-novo protein sequencing company, originally incubated by Versant Ventures and now focused on life science tools and clinical diagnostics. Has raised capital from institutional VCs, strategic investors, and a foundation, and brings unusual ecosystem depth through mentoring at IndieBio, Berkeley SkyDeck, and Biotools Innovator, plus board service with Life Science Angels and VC diligence advisory work.”
Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI, e-commerce, and platform growth
Tricia Biggio
Executive media and creative-tech leader specializing in entertainment and AI storytelling
“Former co-founder/CEO of a venture-backed media-tech startup who spent 6 years raising capital, leading through market shifts, and building with major investor backing. She brings strong relationships across venture studios and senior executives in media, entertainment, consumer products, startups, and AI, and led her last company into Amazon's AWS GENAI accelerator as one of 15 selected in North America.”
Executive Full-Stack Developer specializing in computer graphics and AI-powered visual search
Director-level commercial strategy leader specializing in FinTech partnerships
Leonor Montero
Senior operator and Chief of Staff specializing in 0→1 tech, ops, and fundraising
“Repeat founder/operator with hands-on experience taking startups from zero to MVP, traction, and fundraising. Built a venture-backed company to roughly a $5M valuation and later served as Interim COO for a prop-tech startup, helping launch operations and support a 4-5M SAR raise. Also brings direct exposure to top startup ecosystems through Techstars, Antler, and close work with founders and investors in SF.”
Steve Palley
Executive product leader specializing in marketplaces, consumer products, and health-tech
“Product leader with a rare mix of zero-to-one marketplace building, AI product development, and mission-driven consumer experience work. Led the creation of StoryLoom at Pixelberry/Nexon as a 'Roblox for writers,' is currently building a privacy-conscious AI concierge for a first responder coaching marketplace, and previously co-founded ApplyMap to deliver free AI-powered college guidance for underserved students.”
Jared Wiener
Senior Solutions Architect & Full-Stack Developer specializing in Media & Entertainment on AWS
“Engineering/product leader with experience at ABC News and AWS who built newsroom collaboration and internal tooling initiatives into a full department, aligning roadmaps to business outcomes and navigating Disney-scale bureaucracy. Demonstrates hands-on architectural depth in serverless systems (Lambda/SQS/Parquet) and strong distributed-team operating cadence (Kanban/Asana, Jira/GitHub, Zoom/Slack), including leading while frequently traveling to evangelize and test products across bureaus.”
Director-level Energy & Utility Risk and Data Center Power Strategy Leader
Junior Security Engineer specializing in LLM-based incident response and on-chain threat intelligence
Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in reinforcement learning and multimodal AI
Director-level Software Architect specializing in cloud observability and network monitoring
Senior Software Test Engineer specializing in QA automation and API/E2E testing
Engineering Manager specializing in AI/ML and full-stack product delivery
Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI, SaaS, and growth products
Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in ML, LLM pipelines, and analytics platforms
Vincent Huebner
Mid-level investment analyst specializing in technology and AI research
“Built ZenDraft and brings an operator's lens to founder sourcing and evaluation. Demonstrated ability to run structured outbound, convert cold outreach into product-shaping conversations and pilot introductions, and manage an early-stage investment-style pipeline with clear decision frameworks.”
Nilesh Dixit
Executive AI engineering leader specializing in agentic AI and enterprise platforms
“Bay Area engineering leader and startup co-founder with a rare mix of deep hands-on architecture experience, large-scale people leadership, and cross-functional product ownership. He helped launch GE Digital's industrial IoT efforts, holds multiple patents in the space, has scaled teams to 60-70 people, and has led both enterprise platform modernization and AI startup product development.”
Thomas Majchrowski
Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in SaaS, AI platforms, and M&A integration
“Entrepreneurial builder who created a SaaS system for insurance sales and developed in-house sales/marketing platforms, prioritizing a robust backend that drove over $500k in immediate sales before expanding features. Emphasizes lean, high-impact execution with strong focus on optimization, barrier management, and contingency planning.”