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DevTools Founder Directory

Founders creating developer tools and infrastructure products.

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Toly
@toly

Co-founder of Solana, a high-performance blockchain platform. Previously worked as a software engineer at Dropbox. Also describes himself as an "award winning phone creator."

Web3Technical
16 VCs
A
Ajay Mehta
@ajaymehta

Repeat founder currently building Portola. Previously founded Birthdate Co. and co-founded Therapy Notebooks. YC alum with experience at Wealthsimple.

Product
16 VCs
C
Christian Mochen
@cmochen

Former Head of Build Engineering and Integrated Systems at Mach Industries, now co-founder of a stealth startup focused on industrializing autonomy.

Technical
16 VCs
S
Steve.wasm
@nilslice

CEO of Dylibso, a WebAssembly platform company. Previously worked in software engineering with a focus on systems programming and developer tools.

Founder
16 VCs
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Nicolai Ouporov
@nicoup

Machine learning researcher at Columbia AI and Robotics Lab, then founding engineer at Respell (acquired by Salesforce). Now co-founder and CEO of Fleet AI, working on AI simulation environments.

TechnicalResearch
16 VCs
S
Spencer Mateega
@spencermateega

Wharton and Penn grad (statistics, finance, and computer science) with experience at Morgan Stanley, Meta, Google, and Silver Lake before co-founding AfterQuery, where he serves as CEO.

FundedWeb3TechnicalFinance
16 VCs
K
Kevin Xu
@kevinxu

CEO of Alpha AI, focused on trading and financial alerts. Active trader who shares market insights and provides real-time trading alerts to subscribers.

Founder
16 VCs
C
Craig Weiss
@craigzliszt

Software engineer with experience at Google, Meta, Snap, Lyft, and NASA. Early engineer at Scale AI before founding Rome (YC W22).

FundedTechnical
16 VCs
H
Hunter Leath
@jhleath

Ex-Netflix and AWS engineer now building Archil (YC F24), a cloud storage solution for AI companies to manage data.

FundedTechnicalProduct
15 VCs
S
Scott Morton
@scottgmorton

Former SpaceX engineer (9 years) who worked his way up to Software Engineering Manager on Starship, now founder and CEO of Revel, building software to control machines.

FundedTechnicalResearch
15 VCs
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