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DevTools Founder Directory

Founders creating developer tools and infrastructure products.

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Dev Shah
@0xdevshah

Self-taught engineer and repeat founder who previously built ProfileCity (backed by Nvidia) and BattleBrains (backed by Polygon). Former Head of Engineering at Leo and currently working in developer relations at Resemble AI. Has experience building bio-AI agents at MGH and BMC.

Technical
13 VCs
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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
13 VCs
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Luke Shiels
@lukeshiels_

Founding engineer at Tabs and Delphi, now founder & CEO of Interfere, a YC S25 startup.

FundedTechnicalDesign
12 VCs
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York Yang
@yorkyang5050

Co-founder at Dyna Robotics, previously Principal Engineer at Instacart and CTO at another startup. Experienced engineering leader now building in the robotics space.

Technical
12 VCs
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Lily Clifford
@lilyjclifford

Stanford NLP researcher turned founder of Rime Labs, building human-centered AI voice models for customer experience. Also serves as an advisor at cray.vc.

FundedWeb3Research
12 VCs

Stanford grad with BS and MS in product design, computer science, and mechanical engineering. Former Apple employee and D1 athlete, now CEO and founder of a new venture.

TechnicalDesign
12 VCs
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Juan Luis Hortelano
@jlhortelano

Co-founder of Blinkfire Analytics and President of Startup Valencia. Self-described as "student of many things, master of none."

Funded
12 VCs
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Andrew Qu
@andrewqu

Software engineer at Meta for 2 years, then spent time building and exploring at various startups. Now Chief of Software in the Office of CTO at Vercel.

FundedWeb3Technical
12 VCs
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Andrew M. Dai
@andrewdai

Former director and principal researcher at Google DeepMind where he led the Gemini Data Area. Now co-founder and CEO of a stealth startup working on deep learning and LLMs.

TechnicalResearch
12 VCs
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Feifan Zhou
@feifanz

Former Senior Software Engineer at Stripe turned co-founder & CEO of Tanagram, building AI agents that follow coding patterns. Previously spent time as an independent researcher.

TechnicalProductResearchSales
11 VCs
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