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Vetted Founders in California
Pre-screened and vetted in California.
Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer specializing in cloud-native and edge AI systems
Executive Growth Marketing Consultant specializing in games, Web3, and music
William Armstrong
Junior Product Engineer specializing in AI and SaaS
“Product intern at an AI startup (AdvisorGPT) who helped turn an LLM-based prototype into a production SEO blog-generation workflow that matched a firm’s tone/voice and targeted specific search phrases. Strong at bridging technical and non-technical teams, rapidly learning new AI tooling, and driving adoption through customer calls, UX improvements, and customer-facing demos/workshops.”
Executive Technology Leader (CTO/CPO) specializing in digital transformation, ERP, AI/ML, and M&A
Antoine Andre
Senior Account Executive specializing in AI/SaaS and technical B2B sales
“Founding recruiter/seller at Remax who built the entire outbound engine from zero—cadences, CRM workflows, automations, Chrome extensions, discovery framework, and ROI templates—without SDRs, inbound, or an existing playbook. Combines consultative selling with technical process-building, and turned a cold-sourced broker into a 5-person team producing $14M in annual volume while reducing meeting conversion timelines by 40%.”
David Sigal
Executive-level Software Engineering Leader specializing in Healthcare AI
“Backend engineer who has built end-to-end data and platform systems across domains: a Scala/Java media data warehouse with a custom query language and Elasticsearch search, plus production security patterns (RBAC, RLS, audit trails) including a telehealth platform. Also demonstrated strong operational rigor by using feature-flagged side-by-side migrations and by catching ecommerce checkout edge cases that were dropping revenue.”
Alexandra Xuan
Mid-level Customer Success Manager specializing in influencer marketing and social commerce
“Beauty category/program manager with experience running end-to-end brand campaigns across subscription/assortment and eCommerce, including line planning, inventory pacing, and demand generation. Has negotiated directly with a global beauty conglomerate using pricing tests and scale-based proposals, sustaining the partnership through regular reporting/insights and helping drive onboarding of additional brands.”
JR Vosovic
Senior Game Designer specializing in Unreal Engine and AAA/indie gameplay systems
Alexander Churchill
Executive Talent Acquisition & Workforce Operations Leader specializing in global hiring
“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader who ran a 450–600 person multi-region org (USA/MX/Colombia) with end-to-end ownership of SLAs, capacity planning, funnel metrics, ATS/CRM, compliance, bench, and renewals. Known for high-impact operational redesigns—revamped sales comp to lift EBIT and built a CX function that improved renewals by 10% in 12 months (~$7M). Also drove a Slack-first AI workflow strategy that cut complex RFP turnaround from weeks to minutes.”
Junior Data Scientist / Software Engineer specializing in health data and full-stack apps
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer specializing in Voice AI and real-time telephony
Senior Video Strategy & YouTube Growth Leader specializing in data-driven storytelling
Executive Strategic Communications & Crisis Leader specializing in healthcare, public affairs, and advocacy
Senior Cinematographer/Director of Photography specializing in documentaries and live events
Executive Founder/CEO specializing in M&A rollups, IPOs, and renewable energy project development
Principal Recruiter specializing in administrative and executive support placements
Junior GTM and growth operator specializing in AI, SaaS, and sports tech
Elliot Huscher
Director-level FinTech and Product Leader specializing in AI recruiting and iOS voice apps
“Built a production voice-first fitness coaching/logging system ("Hey Coach") that routes headphone audio, transcribes speech, and uses LLMs to parse workouts into structured data with human-in-the-loop QA and A/B-tested improvements. Also brings a commercial background: led capital markets at a Series A fintech securing $250M+ in commitments and drove early GTM at WorkHQ.com, landing its first Fortune 500 customer.”
Executive Film Producer/Director specializing in studio marketing and full-service production
Director-level GTM leader specializing in B2B SaaS outbound systems
Yazan Tadros
Junior business development and sales professional specializing in marketing and growth
“Early-stage sales hire who joined a startup just 2-3 months after launch and built their own outbound motion in a low-process environment. They describe strong self-sourced selling, including persistent multi-channel outreach that led to a large account win, and later partnered with a teammate and CEO to create a playbook that lifted office performance by 60%+.”
Kevin Orantes
Senior Product Designer specializing in UX/UI, mobile/web products, and design systems
“Product/UX designer with experience digitizing Penske trucking operations and Ridecell fleet lifecycle/workshop orchestration systems. Designs complex, high-liability industrial workflows using a state-driven interaction model and a calm, high-clarity visual language, backed by targeted field research with drivers and ops teams and strong collaboration with engineers (React/Tailwind, Storybook, code-linked prototypes).”
Marvin Kaunda
Mid-level Full-Stack Product Engineer specializing in SaaS and AI search
“Two-time founder and former CTO/CPO who has shipped and operated full-stack products solo, including a real-time community platform (Twitter/Slack-like) with Next.js/TypeScript, WebSockets, Redis, and strong post-launch analytics (PostHog/Sentry). Also built durable multi-step AI-agent workflows using Inngest with state machines, checkpointing, and validation gates, and has hands-on Postgres performance tuning experience validated via EXPLAIN ANALYZE.”