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Rishit Kapoor (Founder @ Periscopic Labs) is looking for a technical co-founder with expertise at the intersection of ML/AI engineering and life sciences or pharma commercial strategy to build an AI-driven evidence synthesis platform for pharmaceutical and clinical researchers.
Nick Foskolos Christodoulou (Founder @ Zvelto AI) is looking for a technical co-founder—full-stack generalist with fluency in React, Node.js, and FastAPI—to scale a restaurant profitability platform from a working MVP to production-grade.
Job Opportunities
Rob Barr (GM, UK & EMEA @ Recharge) is looking for a Senior Customer Success Manager based in London—5+ years partnering with $250k–$1M ACV clients—to join Recharge's fastest-growing region (Series B, ~$150M ARR).
Mike Chao (Co-Founder @ Saccharo AI) is looking for a builder-minded Software Engineer and co-technical lead to help scale an AI platform that helps sales teams win government contracts.
Fundraising
Vlad Kuchkanov (Founder @ Lasker.ai) is raising $2M at a $10M post-money valuation from angels to scale an agentic operating system for marketplace sellers, with 4.6% visit-to-signup conversion and 6 live design partners already co-building the product.
Mariyan (Founder @ MoxyNova) is raising 2M EUR seed from VCs, grants, and angels to scale infrastructure for an AI platform that turns scientific labs into autonomous, agent-driven systems—with pilots already underway at major research institutes.
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🥳 Wins & Celebrations
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Rory O'Reilly (CEO & Co-Founder @ Knot; Catan player) announced Fiserv partnership to bring CardSwitcher to Lyft Direct on February 12, 2026, enabling seamless payment updates across merchants at massive scale for millions of Lyft drivers. 🔗
Vas Zhovner (CTO @ Granola; chess player) on Granola raising $125M Series C at $1.5B valuation led by Danny Rimer at Index Ventures with Kleiner Perkins, 6x valuation jump from $250M in ten months, launching context APIs and MCP server integrations with enterprise customers including Cursor, Lovable, and Mistral AI on March 25, 2026. 🧠
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