We highlight people with tech, legacy, elite industry experiences only if they have at least 9 months of experience.
Our Highlight Categories look at team backgrounds to flag relevant experience. These are derived from our subjective interpretation of signals (e.g. “Top University”).
Highlight | Description | Details |
Top University | Graduate of top ~30 undergraduate and graduate programs | Princeton |
Top Company Alum | Alumni of a highly pedigreed company | Wiz Palo Alto Networks Zscaler SentinelOne Cyera Snyk VMware Okta Tanium Check Point Lacework Tenable Rapid7 Anduril Palantir Shield AI SpaceX Skydio Hadrian Saildrone Vannevar Labs Primer AI Applied Intuition Rebellion Defense Hermeus Epirus Databricks Snowflake Confluent Fivetran dbt Labs MongoDB Splunk Datadog Elastic Cloudera HashiCorp Cockroach Labs Starburst Airbyte ClickHouse Ramp Brex Mercury Adyen Square (Block) Stripe Plaid Paypal CashApp Robinhood Marqeta Affirm Chime Checkout.com Toast Waymo Cruise Tesla Autopilot Figure AI Covariant Nuro Aurora Boston Dynamics Zoox Locus Robotics Berkshire Grey Agility Robotics 1X Sanctuary AI Oscar Health One Medical Oak Street Health Livongo Flatiron Health Tempus Veeva Systems Epic Systems Devoted Health Cityblock Health Ro Hims & Hers Cedar Spring Health Lyra Health Sword Health Color Health Transcarent |
Major Tech Company Experience | Alumni of any FAANG company or other modern-day tech giants | Airbnb Airtable Amazon Apple Atlassian Benchling Box ByteDance/TikTok Coinbase Deel Discord DoorDash Dropbox Figma Hubspot Instacart Intuit Loom Lyft Meta Microsoft Netflix Notion Rippling Rivian Salesforce Samsung Service Titan Shopify Slack Snap Twilio Twitch Uber Vouch Workday xAI Zapier Zoom |
Top AI Experience | Experience at leading AI companies | Abridge Adept AI Anthropic Anyscale Anysphere (Cursor) BentoML Character.AI Cohere CoreWeave DeepMind Determined AI EliseAI EvenUp Glean Harvey Hugging Face Inflection AI Lambda Labs Mistral AI Modal NVIDIA OpenAI Palantir Perplexity AI Pinecone Replicate Run:AI Runway ScaleAI Stability AI Together AI Weights & Biases Eleven labs Midjorney |
Top Web3 Experience | Experience at leading Web3 companies | Alchemy Avalanche Binanace Chainalysis Circle Coinbase Consensys Dapper Labs Dune Analytics Magic Eden Paradigm Phantom Polygon Solana Labs Uniswap |
Legacy Tech Company Experience | Alumni of a historically successful tech company (ex. Cisco, IBM) | Intel Airbus Samsung Servicenow Adobe |
Elite Industry Experience | Prior position in an “elite” company (consulting, banking) | Apollo AQR Capital Bain Bank of America Barclays BlackRock Boston Consulting Group Bridgewater Associates Carlyle Centerview Partners Citadel Coatue D.E. Shaw Deutsche Bank Elliott Management Evercore General Atlantic Goldman Sachs Hudson River Trading IMC Trading Jane Street JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jump Trading KKR Lazard McKinsey & Company Millenium Management Morgan Stanley PIMCO Point72 Renaissance Technologies SIG Silver Lake Thoma Bravo Tiger Global TPG Two Sigma UBS Viking Global Vista Equity partners Warburg Pincus |
Current Student | Founder, executive, or operator is a current student |
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Seasoned Founder | Current founder who was a prior founder at a company with 100+ people |
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Seasoned Executive | Prior executive position at a company with 100+ employees |
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Seasoned Operator | Prior director, manager, or head position at a company with 150+ people |
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HBCU Alum | Graduate of one of 99 HBCUs |
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Major Research Institution Experience | Phd recipient from a major research institution |
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Deep Technical Background | Masters, PhD or technical background of tech fields including computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, chemical engineering, and more. |
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Seasoned Adviser | A role type of Adviser for at least 9 months at a company with 100 or more headcount |
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Free Agent | Someone who currently holds no role at any company. |
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Prior VC Backed Founder | Current founder who has prior founder experience at a company that raised venture-backed funding |
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Prior VC Backed Executive | Prior exec experience at a company that raised any amount of funding. |
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Prior Exit | Prior exec/founder experience at a company that was acquired |
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$5M - $100M Club | Current founder with prior founder experience at a company that raised X+ million dollars. Highlight is in increments of 5 and rounds down (ex. $7M raised = $5M Club, $43M raised = $40M Club). Highlight kicks in at $5M (anything below is “Prior VC Backed Founder”) |
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Founder Turned Operator | VC-backed former founder with current role type of ‘operator’ |
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Jack Of All Trades | Discover talent that has spent significant time working in three or more distinct departments |
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