Startup signals, straight from the code.

See founders and rising engineers start something new from their commits, before the deck or the round.

Engineers who left AI labs to build

  • Eric Christiansen
    @emchristiansen
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    Polyglot engineer who still ships AI infrastructure at Lealwit

    Builds AI research and infrastructure tooling at Lealwit, after Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Contributes to google/in-silico-labeling, a tool that predicts fluorescent labels in images, and maintains PersistentMap, a key-value store in Scala.

  • Giulio Starace
    @thesofakillers
    May
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    Founder building language model probability tooling at Paradigma

    Ships text analysis tooling that surfaces language model probabilities for selected text, after research engineering at OpenAI. Creator of GPTrue-or-False, a browser extension that displays the log probability of selected text.

  • Chen Shen
    @scv119
    May
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    Founder connecting the dots between ML and systems

    Builds ML systems tooling at a stealth startup, after prompt engineering at Cursor. Creator of nixfiles, a Unix system configuration repository, and rnn-transformer, a language modeling library.

Use cases

Startup signals

  • Who left OpenAI or DeepMind to ship something new?
  • Which ex-Anthropic engineers started a repo this month?
  • Who builds GPU inference tooling and hasn’t raised?
  • Which New York founders started a project this quarter?

Portfolio and diligence

  • Write a diligence brief on this founder’s code.
  • How strong is this company’s engineering team?
  • Which portfolio companies lost strong engineers?
  • Who could be a founding engineer for this company?

For investors, scouts and platform teams.

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