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DevTools Founder Directory

Founders creating developer tools and infrastructure products.

Former NASA engineer and repeat founder (including metalytics.dev) now building HumanLayer (YC F24), working on safer and more reliable AI agents. Previously worked at Replicated and SproutSocial, and currently leads AI Tinkerers SF.

FundedTechnicalProductMarketing
25 VCs
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Eno Reyes
@enoreyes

CTO & Co-Founder at Factory, building software that builds software. Previously ML Engineer at Hugging Face and Software Engineer at Microsoft.

FundedTechnical
24 VCs
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Jack Dent
@jackdent

Former engineer at Facebook and Stripe (6 years in eng & product), now co-founder of Chai Discovery.

FundedTechnicalProduct
24 VCs
J
Jon Lovett
@jonlovett

Co-founder of Crooked Media, podcast host, and former presidential speechwriter. Built a media company focused on political commentary and progressive activism after working in the White House.

Content
23 VCs
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Brivael Le Pogam
@brivael

Software engineer turned co-founder and CTO of Argil (YC S24). Previously tech lead at Attraqt and co-founded Snipets.

FundedTechnical
22 VCs
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Eric Jing
@ericjing_ai

Serial entrepreneur who built a business from 0 to $5.5B, now co-founder and CEO of Genspark. Previously CPO at Baidu Search and Principal Dev Manager at Microsoft Bing. Currently pursuing a PhD in Robotics & AI.

TechnicalProductResearchStudent
21 VCs
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Ron Alfa
@ronalfa

Stanford MD-PhD turned pharma executive, previously SVP at Recursion ($RXRX). Now co-founder and CEO of NOETIK, working on AI applications for cancer research.

FundedWeb3
21 VCs
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Brett Harrison
@brettharrison

Former President of FTX US and Head of Semi-Systematic Technology at Citadel Securities, now founder and CEO of Architect.

Web3Technical
20 VCs
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Grace Li
@grx_xce

Harvard CS and neuroscience grad who worked as a software engineer at Apple, now co-founder of Arcada Labs, creators of Design Arena, Prediction Bench, and Socials Arena.

Web3Technical
20 VCs
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Catherine Jue
@juecd__

Former engineering manager at Cash App, now co-founder of Kernel (YC S25), a developer platform for AI agents to use the internet.

FundedTechnicalProduct
19 VCs
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