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Ex-Pinterest/Twitter/Meta/LinkedIn ML engineer now co-founding stealth generative AI startup
Credibility
Operator · 15th percentile
- Past co-founder and CPTO of Octopulse AI, an AI growth intelligence platform founded in 2023 that has since been deadpooled.
- Octopulse AI was co-founded with Meruzhan Danielyan, confirming a co-founder relationship.
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Founder score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past co-founder and CPTO of Octopulse AI, an AI growth intelligence platform founded in 2023 that has since been deadpooled.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Octopulse AI was co-founded with Meruzhan Danielyan, confirming a co-founder relationship.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Currently co-founding a stealth startup in the generative AI space, as identified in the Stealth Startup Spy newsletter.
Investor score
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Has made at least 2 known angel investments, including StayVista and Language Curry.
What you likely need
You're a deeply technical ML founder with rare at-scale impact metrics from Pinterest, Twitter, Meta, and LinkedIn — the exact credibility that cuts through noise with technical investors right now. The Festival events most valuable to you are small, high-trust rooms where you can sharpen your fundraising narrative with people who've done pre-seed AI raises, get warm intros to YC-affiliated and ML-focused seed funds, and recruit early engineers from your FAANG peer network. You'll also benefit from tactical sessions that push you to go public with your stealth work faster and build the external technical brand that drives inbound from both investors and customers.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA pre-seed founder dinner with ex-FAANG technical founders who have raised on ML impact metrics — to pressure-test your fundraising narrative around recommender system revenue lift numbers from Twitter Ads and Instagram Ads before you pitch investors
- introsA roundtable with YC S23/W24 AI batch founders and current YC partners to get candid feedback on your application narrative and warm introductions ahead of submitting your stealth startup to the next YC batch
- hiringA happy hour for senior ML engineers from Pinterest, Twitter, Meta, and LinkedIn alumni networks specifically looking at early-stage opportunities — to surface founding engineer candidates who have already seen your technical leadership firsthand
- positioningA small invite-only demo night for stealth pre-seed AI founders to show early prototypes to a curated room of technical seed investors — designed to give you the structured forcing function to bring Octopulse-speed execution to your new startup's first public moment
- fundraisingA dinner with technical investors from Conviction, Pear VC, and AIX Ventures who lead pre-seed ML infrastructure rounds — to workshop how to lead your pitch with specific revenue lift percentages and latency improvements from large-scale recommender systems rather than job titles
- tacticalA tactical working session for LLM and recommender-systems founders who are actively publishing technical content — to draft and get peer feedback on your first public blog post or open-source tool tied to your stealth startup's core problem
- positioningA roundtable with seed-stage GPs from Better Tomorrow Ventures and Hustle Fund who actively co-invest with angels — to help you formalize a one-paragraph public investing thesis around your StayVista and Language Curry bets and position you as a credible co-investor for your own raise
- wellbeingA candid dinner for founders who are navigating a full-time senior IC or director role while co-founding a stealth startup — to share honest frameworks for protecting creative energy and avoiding the burnout pattern that can come after a fast build-and-wind-down cycle like Octopulse AI