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A curated directory of founders, technical co-founders, engineers, and operators building ambitious companies in artificial intelligence.

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Priya Mehta

Operator in Residence

Independent

San Francisco, US

Former Head of Ops at two Series A AI startups. I help founders stand up finance, hiring, and GTM ops in the first 18 months.

Enterprise AIHealthcare AI
Advising 2 companies

Currently exploring: Founder office hours, Operator roles

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Sofia Alvarez

Research Engineer

Cambridge ML Lab → Stealth

Cambridge, UK

PhD in efficient fine-tuning. Exploring a startup around small-model distillation for on-device agents.

ResearchRoboticsOpen Source
Exploring startup ideas

Currently exploring: Co-founder, Research collaborators

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Marcus Chen

CTO

ClaimFlow

Toronto, Canada

Automating insurance claims intake with document AI. We need a senior backend engineer who has shipped under HIPAA.

Healthcare AIEnterprise AI
Hiring senior backend engineer

Currently exploring: Senior backend engineer, Design partners in insurance

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Leila Hassan

ML Infrastructure Engineer

Modal Stack

Berlin, Germany

GPU scheduling, model serving, and cost observability. Writing about what breaks when you move from notebook to production.

AI InfrastructureMLOps
Open to new roles

Currently exploring: Infra-heavy teams, Speaking opportunities

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Tom Okonkwo

Founder

FieldSense

Lagos, Nigeria

Computer vision for agricultural supply chains. Raising a pre-seed to expand pilot with 3 cooperatives.

RoboticsEnterprise AI
Raising pre-seed

Currently exploring: Angels, Ag-tech partners

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Nina Kowalski

Product Lead

Syntax Health

Warsaw, Poland

Clinical documentation copilot for European hospitals. Looking for a founding designer who understands workflow-heavy products.

Healthcare AI
Hiring founding designer

Currently exploring: Founding designer, Hospital design partners

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Daniel Reeves

Technical Advisor

Independent

Edinburgh, UK

Ex-DeepMind research engineer. I advise teams on eval design, safety testing, and model release checklists.

AI SafetyResearch
Taking 1 new advisory slot

Currently exploring: Seed teams with model risk, Office hours

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Jonas Berg

Founding Engineer

VectorForge

Stockholm, Sweden

Rust and Python. Spent 6 years on search and ranking at Spotify. Now building retrieval tooling for AI apps.

AI InfrastructureOpen Source
Open to co-founder conversations

Currently exploring: Commercial co-founder, Early customers

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Yuki Tanaka

Founding Engineer

Tokyo Agents Co.

Tokyo, Japan

Building multi-agent workflows for Japanese enterprise back-office. Need someone strong in TypeScript and LLM tool use.

Enterprise AIAI Infrastructure
Hiring founding engineer

Currently exploring: Founding engineer, Enterprise pilots

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Ethan Walsh

Partner

Northbridge AI

New York, US

Pre-seed and seed investor focused on applied AI in regulated industries. Not a generalist fund.

Healthcare AIAI SafetyEnterprise AI
Reviewing Q2 pipeline

Currently exploring: Seed-stage founders, Technical demos

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Oliver Grant

CEO

BenchMark AI

Manchester, UK

Benchmarking platform for comparing fine-tuned models on private datasets. Launching public beta next month.

MLOpsResearch
Closing seed extension

Currently exploring: Seed investors, Beta users

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Helena Vo

Founder

ParseWell

Singapore

Structured extraction from messy PDFs for legal and compliance teams. Looking for design partners in financial services.

Enterprise AI
Raising seed

Currently exploring: Design partners, Seed investors

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Ibrahim Saleh

Research Engineer

OpenEval Project

Paris, France

Maintaining open-source eval harnesses for multilingual models. Looking for contributors and grant funding.

Open SourceResearch
Building in public

Currently exploring: Contributors, Grant sponsors

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Maya Patel

COO

CareRoute

Boston, US

Routing patients to appropriate care pathways using triage models. Hiring a clinical partnerships lead.

Healthcare AI
Hiring partnerships lead

Currently exploring: Clinical partnerships, Health system pilots

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Lucas Ferreira

Angel Investor

Independent

Lisbon, Portugal

Former SaaS founder. Writing small checks into technical founding teams across Europe.

Enterprise AIAI Infrastructure
Investing actively

Currently exploring: Pre-seed founders, Technical demos

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Rachel Kim

Investor

Atlas Seed

London, UK

Seed checks £250k–£750k. Thesis: tools that make AI teams faster, not flashier demos.

AI InfrastructureMLOpsDeveloper tools
Open office hours

Currently exploring: Seed founders, Technical founders

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Fatima Al-Rashid

ML Engineer

Stealth

Dubai, UAE

Speech and audio models for Arabic dialects. Exploring co-founder match with someone who knows media or telecom distribution.

ResearchEnterprise AI
Seeking co-founder

Currently exploring: Co-founder, Distribution partner

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Chris Novak

Head of Platform

RiverCompute

Austin, US

We resell reserved GPU capacity to early teams. Sharing learnings on cost control and failure modes.

AI Infrastructure
Hiring platform engineer

Currently exploring: Platform engineers, Startup customers

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Emily Chang

Staff Engineer

Stripe → Exploring

Seattle, US

Payments infra background. Exploring ideas around fraud detection with small specialized models.

Enterprise AIAI Infrastructure
Exploring ideas

Currently exploring: Co-founder, Problem validation

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Zara Qureshi

Technical Advisor

Independent

Karachi, Pakistan

Help teams hire their first ML engineers and set sensible engineering bar for AI products.

HiringMLOps
Available for advisory

Currently exploring: Founders hiring first ML hire, Office hours

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Grace Liu

Product Engineer

PromptOps

Remote (EU)

Prompt versioning, staging, and rollback for production LLM apps. We are 2 founders looking for a third with strong frontend taste.

MLOpsDeveloper tools
Seeking third co-founder

Currently exploring: Co-founder, Design partners

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Aisha Mohammed

Founding Engineer

GraphPilot

Birmingham, UK

Knowledge graph + LLM orchestration for internal enterprise search. Seed funded, team of 4.

Enterprise AIAI Infrastructure
Referrals welcome

Currently exploring: Senior engineers, Enterprise references

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Victor Stein

CEO

RoboInspect

Munich, Germany

Autonomous inspection for manufacturing lines. Raising Series A after 2 paid pilots.

RoboticsEnterprise AI
Series A in progress

Currently exploring: Series A investors, Manufacturing partners

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Mohammed Ali

Investor

Crescent Ventures

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Backing AI infrastructure and applied AI in MENA. Prefer teams with regional distribution insight.

AI InfrastructureEnterprise AI
Meeting founders

Currently exploring: Seed/Series A, MENA GTM

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Amara Okafor

CEO & Co-founder

LatticeMind

London, UK

Building evaluation infrastructure for production LLM systems. Previously ML lead at a fintech scale-up.

AI InfrastructureMLOpsEnterprise AI
Hiring founding engineer

Currently exploring: Founding engineer, Design partners

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Sam O'Brien

Founder

DataContractor

Dublin, Ireland

Data contracts and schema validation for ML feature pipelines. Open beta, need feedback from data platform teams.

MLOpsAI Infrastructure
Pre-seed raise

Currently exploring: Beta users, Pre-seed investors

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Anya Volkov

CEO

LexBridge

Tallinn, Estonia

Contract review for cross-border B2B deals. Launch update: now supports English, German, and Estonian.

Enterprise AI
Launch week

Currently exploring: Legal design partners, Angels

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Ben Tucker

CTO

SynthLab

Bristol, UK

Synthetic data generation for training vision models where real data is scarce or sensitive.

ResearchRobotics
Hiring CV engineer

Currently exploring: CV engineer, Robotics partners

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Ryan Park

ML Platform Lead

Nimbus AI

Vancouver, Canada

Building feature stores and online inference for a portfolio of internal models. Hiring platform engineers.

MLOpsAI Infrastructure
Hiring ML platform engineers

Currently exploring: ML platform engineers, Architecture reviews

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

Kate Morrison

Founder

AuditLens

Glasgow, UK

AI-assisted internal audit for mid-size companies. Not replacing auditors — accelerating evidence collection.

Enterprise AI
Seed round open

Currently exploring: Seed investors, Audit firm partners

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups

James Coley

Engineer

Independent

Remote

Open to conversations

Currently exploring: Open conversations

Recent: Recently joined CoStartups