Vetted Founders

“Recruiting leader who has managed teams of up to 6 while remaining hands-on with requisitions, owning end-to-end process design, ATS administration, and performance metrics reporting to senior leadership (including CFO/CPO). Built retention and quality feedback loops (7/30/90-day, 1-year check-ins and exit interviews) and drove process improvements like job description revisions to increase candidate quality and secure additional headcount when demand exceeded capacity.”

Elliot Huscher

Screened

Director-level FinTech and Product Leader specializing in AI recruiting and iOS voice apps

Sacramento, CA8y exp

“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.”

Alastair Pavrey

Screened

Senior startup operator specializing in strategy, operations, product, and venture capital

Mumbai, India11y exp

“Healthtech operator and former co-founder who helped pivot a startup from VR software for neurological patients to an accessible home-based physiotherapy model, scaling it from zero to 2 Crore ARR. Also brings venture ecosystem exposure through work with Array Ventures, Pentathlon Ventures, and V3 Ventures, combining founder-side execution with investor-side pattern recognition.”

“Operator/consultant who built and ran an executive coaching and business consulting practice working directly with founders and operators on decision-making, operational structure, and performance. Has tested multiple business concepts (consulting/productized services and a consumer product) without raising external capital, and is now intentionally transitioning from advising to full end-to-end ownership of a venture with a strong bias toward rapid validation and execution.”

Aviral Pal

Screened

Principal investor and startup advisor specializing in venture capital and M&A

Global11y exp

“Entrepreneurial investor/operator who built a sector-agnostic HoldCo and secured LP commitments. Brings hands-on experience across venture capital, studios, and accelerators in roles spanning co-director, partner, venture partner, and advisor, with a focus on evaluating profitable consumer tech and consumer retail businesses, including AI-enabled opportunities.”

“Unity/C# developer with hands-on ownership of an end-to-end multiplayer gameplay system using Unity Netcode for GameObjects, Relay, and Lobby, emphasizing modular architecture for stability and faster debugging/iteration. Also has VR experience building Meta Quest 2 training scenarios (e.g., fire extinguishment) with heavy performance optimization, and has leveraged ElevenLabs for rapid voice prototyping.”

“Founder of a consultancy for 14 years with extensive experience managing multiple clients and projects simultaneously. Interested in leveraging AI to solve operational challenges and is seeking exposure to the venture capital/studio/accelerator ecosystem despite no direct VC experience.”

Mohan Pushadapu

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Mechatronics Engineer specializing in robotics, embedded firmware, and autonomous systems

Baltimore, MD4y exp

“Robotics/embedded engineer with hands-on firmware ownership for closed-loop motor/vision systems and strong ROS1 navigation experience (move_base, gmapping, robot_localization), including EKF sensor fusion to eliminate localization drift to sub-10cm accuracy. Also brings IoT distributed pub/sub expertise (30+ devices over MQTT, 99% uptime) plus Unity AR/VR simulation and computer-vision test automation that saved 100+ hours.”