Founders You Should Know March 25th Recap
the one in which Aaron Burr raps about startups you should join
Our next showcase will be on May 20th in SF. We’re hosting a series of engineering dinners this month. Apply now to join our community and get access to these events!
We started Founders You Should Know with a simple idea: the best career-defining opportunities don’t come from job postings on Linkedin, they come from people. From being in the right room, at the right time, with the right builders. Or, as Josh Hoeflich, who dressed up as Aaron Burr from Hamilton for intermission show, would say, you want to be in “The Room Where it Happens.” However, if you missed the show last week, you can still catch a glimpse of what happened in our recap below.
The FYSK room is really special to me, because it’s built by my people. My brother came to the showcase. My husband emceed the show. The volunteers at registration are longtime members of this community — one of them is a founder we invested in who’s been coming since day one, and he brought his cousin along. And even our performer first came to FYSK as a jobseeker.
When you come to an FYSK showcase, you’re not just attending an event — you’re stepping into a community that compounds opportunities for you. We hope that some of our community members join the founders they meet at the show. Very often, what actually happens is you meet someone… and they introduce you to someone else… and then someone else. That n+1 effect is how both careers and companies get built.
I hope that through the FYSK community, you meet people who become collaborators, co-conspirators, and maybe even lifelong friends. If you’d like us to connect you with any of the founders below, send us an email blurb to forward!
Ricursive
Ricursive Intelligence is a frontier AI lab building a recursive self-improvement loop between AI systems and the chips that power them, compressing chip design timelines from years to weeks.
Founder: Anna Goldie
Open Roles: Engineering, Research, Security
Armadin
Armadin is a frontier AI security company building proactive security models and agents to protect organizations against attacks and maintain Western superiority in cyberspace
Founder: Travis Lanham
Open Roles: Research, Engineering, Design, Product, GTM
Zipline
Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced autonomous delivery service. With more than 130 million commercial autonomous miles flown to date, Zipline is transforming access to healthcare, consumer products, and food.
Founder: Keenan Wyrobek
Open roles: Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing + 150 roles!
Raindrop
Raindrop is an AI-native observability platform that helps teams monitor, evaluate, and debug AI agents in production.
Founder: Ben Hylak
Open Roles: ML Engineering, Product Engineering, Infra, Security, DevEx
TypeSafe AI
TypeSafe AI is building a new class of large language models designed explicitly for true no-human-in-the-loop automation, not conversational assistants.
Founder: Diogo Almeida
Open Roles: AI Research, Reliability Engineering, Generalist Engineering
Radical Numerics
Radical Numerics is using AI to master the language of life - making possible new medicines, and the design of life itself.
Founder: Eric Nguyen
Open Roles: AI and Bio
Fleet AI
Fleet AI builds simulated worlds and real-world challenge environments to help understand, evaluate, and shape advanced AI systems.
Founder: Nicolai Ouporov
Open Roles: Researchers, Environment engineers
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Deveillance
Deveillance is building privacy hardware that stops unwanted audio recordings, starting with Spectre I, a portable device that makes nearby microphones unable to capture intelligible speech.
Founder: Aida Baradari
Open roles: Hardware, Signal Processing, Engineering
Goodfire
Goodfire is a research lab dedicated to understanding and intentionally designing AI models.
Founder: Tom McGrath
Open Roles: Machine Learning, Research Science, Platform Engineering
Sunday Robotics
Sunday Robotics is building autonomous home robots that learn useful household tasks from large-scale real-world human demonstrations.
Founder: Tony Zhao
Open Roles: Full stack SWE, Product Managers, Robotics and ML
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Any more details on how the deveillance device works? Sounds like a great product but doesn’t sound physically plausible to me.
This is awesome. Thank you for sharing.