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DevTools Founder Directory

Founders creating developer tools and infrastructure products.

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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Semi Doped
@semidoped

Senior Analyst at Creative Strategies and founder of Chipstrat, a semiconductor industry analysis firm. Previously a Senior Product Manager for autonomy systems at Blue River Technology. Co-hosts the Semi Doped podcast covering semiconductor business and engineering insights.

TechnicalProductResearch
12 VCs

Founder and CEO of Precigenetics, building AI and biosensing technology to control mammalian cells and fight disease. Previously worked in computational biology at Penn and as a research assistant at Penn Medicine.

TechnicalResearchStudent
12 VCs
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Co-founder of Tailscale and now CEO of exe.dev. Previously spent 8 years as a staff software engineer at Google.

Technical
12 VCs
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Nils Cremer
@nilscmr

Computer Science student and software engineer who worked at JetBrains and QuantCo before co-founding Tendrils Compute, a chip company.

TechnicalResearchStudent
11 VCs
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Sasha Malysheva
@aimalysheva

PhD in Reinforcement Learning, previously at DeepMind and Google X. Currently building something for LLM communication and part of South Park Commons F25 cohort.

TechnicalResearch
11 VCs
A

PhD from Princeton, previously at Google DeepMind, now building robot foundation models at Generalist AI.

TechnicalResearch
11 VCs
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Garrison
@heygarrison

Founder of ComputeSDK, the universal compute interface. Previously worked at LocalStack and StackBlitz. Father of three with a 5th grade education.

Founder
11 VCs
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Charles Maddock
@charles_maddock

Full stack developer turned founder of Strawberry, a browser company. Previously founded Rivernotch and worked as a developer at SSF Stöldskyddsföreningen.

Technical
11 VCs
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Sohan Choudhury
@hungrysohan

Co-founder and CEO of Flint (YC S23), a learning platform that adapts to students. Previously co-founded Gatherly as CTO and founded Queues. Serial entrepreneur with experience building education and event technology.

FundedTechnicalResearchContent
11 VCs
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