Vetted Founders

“LLM/agent builder who has shipped production AI systems in the wellness space, including an LLM-powered food tracking product used by 5000+ users and a voice/call-routing onboarding workflow using LangGraph/LangChain with LiveKit and Twilio. Strong focus on practical reliability work: latency reduction, retrieval/embedding tuning, and CI-driven evaluation with simulations and metrics.”

“People/HR leader with experience supporting globally distributed teams (US, Canada, UK) and partnering with senior leaders on org design and scalable people processes. Implemented a formal performance review program, including manager training and 1:1 coaching, to improve consistency, transparency, and performance conversations as the company grew.”

“Product designer/hardware prototyper building Saccade (VR headset attachment for Apple Vision Pro) to enable earlier, lower-cost Alzheimer's detection via eye-tracking and on-device CV/ML; designed a custom biocompatible snap-on light-shield replacement with integrated cameras/PCB after Apple camera-data restrictions. Also has biomedical manufacturing experience (major fixture-driven throughput gains) and leads a 160-member Assistive Technology Club sponsored by Apple and Google.”

“Entrepreneur building an AI-driven outbound growth and automation startup, currently self-funding development through consulting while validating market demand. Stands out for combining technical workflow automation with practical go-to-market experimentation, including deliverability-focused outbound systems and webinar partnerships with local experts to drive trust and conversion.”

Ben Coats

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in startups, SaaS, and cloud-native platforms

Newport, VT24y exp

“Early-stage technical advisor working fractionally with an AI health tech startup focused on autism therapy, helping turn a functional prototype into a deployable enterprise application. Brings a mix of hands-on coding, infrastructure/Terraform experience, and founder-oriented thinking around market opportunity, studio fit, and right-to-win.”

kartikeya tiwari

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and platform engineering

Bangalore, India6y exp

“Backend/AI engineer with experience owning production systems in fintech and product startups, including a predictive scaling platform that cut AWS spend by 40% and an ambiguous social-intelligence feature that doubled MRR from $50K to $100K. Also building AI search and document-processing workflows, with reported 99.7% extraction accuracy and hands-on use of both classical forecasting and modern LLM stacks.”

Jordan Karp

Screened

Executive founder and political strategist specializing in FinTech and public affairs

New York, NY23y exp

“Entrepreneur with a background in electoral politics who is building a niche lending company for political campaigns and organizations, a space they describe as having no direct competitors. They also bring prior experience starting manufacturing and transportation businesses, giving them an unusual blend of political domain knowledge, finance fluency, and repeat-founder experience.”

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.”

Niv Srinivasan

Screened

Senior Infrastructure Engineer specializing in FinTech and crypto payments

Melbourne, Australia7y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer who built an autonomous trading system end-to-end, emphasizing correctness and long-term reliability via reconciliation, idempotent order handling, and production observability (Sentry, structured logs, alerts). Also built and maintained external-facing APIs (Firebase auth, Swagger docs) and resilient Selenium-based e-commerce scraping/automation with anti-bot and UI-change hardening.”

Nehemiah Dias

Screened

Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in design systems and real-time SaaS platforms

San Francisco, CA11y exp

“Full-stack product builder who has repeatedly taken end-to-end ownership in startup environments, including building PromoFlow solo and architecting the entire software backbone for Hard Drive. Particularly strong at turning ambiguous product needs into scalable systems, from real-time Firebase apps to shared component libraries and redesigned Postgres architectures, while also bridging non-technical founders, design, and engineering.”