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Trending Founder Directory

Founders gaining momentum with the most VC follows in the last month.

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Moritz Stephan
@moritz_stephan

Works at Cognition Labs and is affiliated with Stanford AI Lab. Limited public information available about specific role and background.

FundedTechnicalResearch
🔥 34 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
🔥 26 VCs
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Neel Somani
@neelsomani

Berkeley grad and former quantitative researcher at Citadel, now founder of Eclipse, a blockchain platform. Currently focused on formal methods and mechanistic interpretability research.

Web3TechnicalResearch
🔥 25 VCs

Building Standard Machines, a YC S26 startup.

Funded
🔥 23 VCs
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Omar Kunbargi
@omarkunbargi

Former SpaceX engineer (10 years) now CEO & Founder of Asymm, working on building peace through technology.

Founder
🔥 18 VCs
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Alex Atallah
@alexatallah

Co-founder and former CTO of OpenSea, now CEO of OpenRouter, the largest LLM marketplace. Previously CTO at Whatsgoodly.

FundedWeb3Technical
🔥 16 VCs
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