129 Founders in San Jose, CA

San Jose, CA founders (129)

San Jose, CA founders covers 129 founders on PayPal, Astera Labs and AiPrise and 108 other companies. The most common sectors are AI Infrastructure (25), SaaS (25) and Cybersecurity (17). Members are based in 2 cities, led by San Jose, CA (128) and San Jose, Costa Rica (1). The remaining members span Fintech (12), Climate (8), Developer Tools (7), Healthtech (7), E-commerce (4), Robotics (4), Semiconductors (4) and Biotech (2) and 10 further sectors. Companies represented include Atmosic, Couchbase, Figure, Fleak, Graphiant, Harmonic, LiveKit, Lynx, Lyten, NeoPhotonics, Nutanix and Spectro Cloud, plus 96 more. Every founder below links to a profile with their company, backers, and the filings behind each round.

• Founders listed: 129
• Companies represented: 111
• Top sector: AI Infrastructure (25 founders)
• Top location: San Jose, CA (128 founders)
• Sectors represented: 21
• Locations represented: 2

• Adam Evans — SiMa
• Afeef Zaman — SILQ
• Alan Lowe — NeoPhotonics
• Alessandro Chesser — GetDynasty
• Alex Karp — Spectro Cloud
• Alien Torres — Alien Technology
• Ali Foughi — Atmosic
• Ali Moiz — Streamlabs
• Amar Kapadia — Aarna Networks
• Amir Ashkenazi — Airtop
• Amit Govrin — Kubiya.ai
• Amrit Robbins — Axiom Cloud
• Anant Kale — AppZen
• André Robert — Tobipets
• Andrew Dworschak — Yakoa
• Ankur Singla — Exaforce
• Arti Raman — Portal26
• Ashar Rizqi — Bounti.ai
• Ashwin Bharadwaj — Innovium
• Balaji Ganesan — OpsRamp
• Bill Hu — Kika Tech
• Bj Schaknowski — Couchbase
• Bo Lei — Fleak
• Brett Adcock — Archer
• Brett Adcock — Figure
• Brett Adcock — Figure AI
• Casey Morrison — Astera Labs
• Chaitanya Sarda — AiPrise
• Charles Chenggong Fan — Rainfinity, Inc.
• Cody Coleman — Coactive AI
• Dan Cook — Lyten
• Dan Dica — Lynx
• Daniel Cook — Lyten
• Daniel Schulman — PayPal
• Daricus Releford — StoreCash
• Dario Amodei — Figure
• Darius Lam — NEX
• Darren Liccardo — BlueArc
• David Blitzer — LiveKit
• David Karp — Milo.com
• David Marcus — PayPal Holdings Inc
• David Stockton — Lynx
• David Su — Atmosic
• Devin Bhushan — Squint
• Dheeraj Pandey — Nutanix
• Dinesh Kumar — Guavus
• Eldar Sadikov — Field Materials
• Elon Musk — PayPal
• Eric Rachmel — Olarry
• Eric Yuan — Zoom
• Eyal Shani — Eargo
• Farhad Taghibakhsh — Unephra
• Fengmin Gong — Metafoodx
• Fran Brzyski — Hark
• Gil Allouche — Metadata
• Gopi Sirineni — Axiado Corporation Inc
• Heegun Eom — Salezilla
• Hitesh Sheth — Vectra AI
• James Winebrenner — Elisity
• Jitendra Mohan — Astera Labs
• John Fuerst — Tula Technology
• Jonathan Rat — Archy
• Josh James — Divvy
• Juan Velasquez — MetaMap
• Junhwan Kim — StradVision
• Kabir Nagrecha — Tessera Labs
• Kal Patel — BrightInsight
• Karthik Krishnan — Concentric AI
• Kevin Lobo — Vocera Communications
• Khalid Raza — Graphiant
• Kim Hyung-soo — Upstage
• Kiran Kamity — DeepFactor
• Krishna Rangasayee — SiMa.ai
• KR Sridhar — Bloom Energy
• Li Guangxin — Device VM
• Marc Bolitho — Recogni
• Mark Wade — Ayar Labs
• Marvin G. Lenoir — Nok Nok Labs
• Matan Lustig — Noname Security
• Matt Cain — Couchbase
• Max Levchin — PayPal
• Michael Chasen — ScootPad
• Michael Goguen — Graphiant
• Michael Hurlston — NeoPhotonics
• Milo Werner — Net AI
• Mir Imran — InCube Labs
• Mir Imran — Rani Therapeutics
• Mohit Aron — Nutanix
• Naren Gupta — Recruitology
• Navindra Yadav — Theom
• Nersi Nazari — VitalConnect
• Nitin Bhandari — Planera
• Oana Manolache — Sequel.io
• Oleg Boiko — Attendify
• Patrick Gelsinger — Avago Technologies Limited
• Paul Mikhay — Bloom
• Peter Thiel — PayPal
• Rahul Bhatia — Knowde
• Rajesh Talwar — Securiti
• Rene Lacerte — BILL
• Reza Khorasaninejad — Leadoptik
• Robert Neivert — ionobell
• Rushabh Shah — AiPrise
• Russ d'Sa — LiveKit
• Ryan Gilliam — Fortera
• Sam Altman — Zoom Video Communications
• Sanjay Gajendra — Astera Labs
• Sanjeev Kumar — C3DNA
• Satish Veerapuneni — Lumeus.ai
• Saurabh Sandhir — Kipling Secure
• Scott Wharton — Tandem PV
• Sean Park — Point2 Technology
• Simone Sassoli — Virsec
• Stephen Klein — Hyphen
• Steven Erickson — Synqly
• Tenry Fu — Spectro Cloud
• Thomas J. Fogarty — Vascular Architects
• T. J. Rodgers — Cypress Semiconductor
• Tudor Achim — Harmonic
• Tyler Niday — Bonsai Robotics
• Tyler Warnock — Userfront
• Victor Gane — Field Materials, Inc
• Vishal Shukla — Aviz Networks
• Vivek Ramaswamy — Quanergy
• Vivek Ranadivé — 24/7 Customer
• Vlad Tenev — Harmonic
• Yichen Jin — Fleak
• Yichen Jin — Fleak AI
• Zhuo Li — HydroX AI

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• San Jose, CA · AI Infrastructure (22 founders)
• San Jose, CA · SaaS (21 founders)
• San Jose, CA · Cybersecurity (14 founders)
• San Jose, CA · Fintech (10 founders)
• San Jose, CA · Climate (7 founders)
• San Jose, CA · Healthtech (7 founders)
• San Jose, CA · Developer Tools (6 founders)
• Arjun Sethi · San Jose, CA (3 founders)
• San Jose, CA · Robotics (3 founders)
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• San Jose, CA · E-commerce (3 founders)
• San Jose, CA · Biotech (2 founders)

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