Vetted Founders in Texas

Conway Cheng Cheng

Screened

Executive transformation leader specializing in global risk architecture and financial services

Dallas, TX26y exp

“Advisory and financial-services professional with exposure to PE/VC boards, Big 4 strategic partnerships, and innovation labs, now exploring a commercialization venture via a venture studio model. Brings a structured approach to building new businesses—combining Design Thinking, feasibility testing, rapid prototyping, and SBIR-backed R&D strategy with cross-border market entry and enterprise modernization experience.”

Estime Aristomene

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in regulated FinTech payments and AML

Dallas, TX21y exp

“Founder of two bootstrapped ventures—Brain Matched, a career tech platform, and AIqorx, a software/infrastructure company. Distinguishes themself as a builder focused on modular, scalable technical infrastructure that reduces technical debt and speeds execution, with a venture-studio mindset around creating shared tech stacks that give portfolio companies an advantage.”

HUGH BOYLE

Screened

Executive marketing leader specializing in brand, digital, and agency transformation

Grapevine, TX18y exp

“Experienced corporate operator with a co-founder bringing 50+ combined years of relevant large-company experience, now building a bootstrapped AI/SaaS/Data Infrastructure startup. They have spent the past year developing a detailed business plan, playbook, and investor materials with support from Accenture's startup assessment tools, and are just beginning to engage VCs from a position of strong preparation.”

“Bootstrapped founder of ByteThirst, a launched browser extension and CLI that monitors and estimates the environmental cost of LLM usage. They are targeting a niche climate-tech/AI space with support for 14 platforms, a freemium subscription model, and a first-mover thesis backed by market research, market sizing, and profit projections.”

Ravi Ada

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in digital health platforms, cloud & AI, and FHIR/HL7 interoperability

Carrollton, TX22y exp

“Healthcare diagnostics/health tech founder building Casandra.ai, an API-driven lab test catalog and ordering platform designed to standardize fragmented test catalogs and integrate into provider workflows via FHIR. Bootstrapped and built a deploy-ready product, drawing on prior startup experience and accelerator participation (Health Box, DreamIt Ventures).”

“Built and deployed a compliance-sensitive LLM pipeline that extracts rebate logic from hospital–supplier medical contracts, using multi-layer redaction (regex/NER/dictionary), schema-validated structured outputs, and secure placeholder reinsertion. Hosted models on Amazon Bedrock to avoid retraining on sensitive data and improved both accuracy and cost by splitting the workflow into a lightweight section classifier plus a fine-tuned extraction model, orchestrated with LangChain and evaluated via layered, test-driven agent assessments.”

Ketan Verma

Screened

Junior Applied AI Engineer specializing in data pipelines and ML systems

College Station, TX2y exp

“Built an end-to-end wafer-data anomaly detection and reporting system at Samsung using PySpark, Random Forest models, SQL, and Grafana to help engineers track faults and take corrective action. Also has strong UX prototyping and validation practices in Figma plus hands-on front-end/full-stack experience (HTML/CSS/TypeScript), including a student project recognized as best design out of 25 teams, and early-stage startup experience pivoting a product based on user interviews into a real-time in-context feedback overlay.”

Elizabeth Angle

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Executive Recruiter specializing in Accounting & Finance and recruiting operations

Fort Worth, TX14y exp

“Talent/recruiting operations leader who built and managed an 8–10 person recruiting team and created training, onboarding, and standardized processes to support high-volume staffing for new and existing branches across the US. Known for improving recruiter–branch manager communication and implementing structured timelines/checklists to keep office openings on track; experienced with Bullhorn (including Textkernel) dashboards and team enablement.”

“Repeat founder/operator who has raised over $1M across three companies and has hands-on experience advising fundraising, including helping a biotech company secure a $500K+ accelerator round through IndieBio. Brings a strong point of view on early-stage investing, founder quality, and startup traction metrics, with a clear intention to build or lead a company rather than join one long-term.”

“LLM/agent builder who shipped a live consumer AI-agent app (kalpa.chat) that visualizes complex reasoning as interactive graphs and abstracts multi-provider model usage via a unified wallet. Professionally has applied LangChain/LangGraph to IVR parsing and to scaling a football video-generation pipeline at DAZN, including shipping a VAR-specific retrieval/order fix via SQL after iterating with a non-technical PM.”