# Noel Moldvai

> Noel Moldvai is the co-founder and CEO of Augment, a FINRA-registered marketplace that lets accredited investors buy and sell shares of late-stage private companies like SpaceX, OpenAI and Stripe with order-book style trading. A former Google engineer and founding engineer at Rubrik, where he felt the pain of locked-up employee equity firsthand, he built Augment from beta to a roughly $10M run rate in about 18 months, profitably, crossing $400M+ in trade volume and raising about $16M. Berkeley EECS grad, holder of 10+ patents, and a self-described metalhead who plays guitar and drums.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Augment
- **Organizations:** Augment, Rubrik, Google, Cal Blueprint
- **Nationality:** Hungarian-American
- **Education:** B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), UC Berkeley, Valedictorian, Dublin High School
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Augment, a FINRA-registered Alternative Trading System for private-company shares., Scaled Augment from beta to roughly $10M annual run rate in about 18 months - profitably., Crossed $400M+ in total trade volume across 500+ completed transactions since the April 2024 beta.

## Career timeline

- **Berkeley** — Studied EECS at UC Berkeley, did astrophysics research on millimeter-wavelength observations, and co-founded Cal Blueprint, a student tech consultancy.
- **Google** — Software engineer at Google.
- **Rubrik** — Founding/early engineer and engineering leader at Rubrik; helped bring its on-prem technology to the cloud. Rubrik IPO'd in 2024.
- **2024** — Co-founded Augment; launched beta in April 2024 and raised ~$4M seed (Neo, Golden Section, angels Roger Dickey and Ali Partovi).
- **2025** — Raised a $12M Series A led by Builders VC (Oct 2025); reached ~$10M annual run rate profitably, $400M+ trade volume across 500+ transactions.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Augment, a FINRA-registered Alternative Trading System for private-company shares.
- Scaled Augment from beta to roughly $10M annual run rate in about 18 months - profitably.
- Crossed $400M+ in total trade volume across 500+ completed transactions since the April 2024 beta.
- Raised approximately $16M across seed and a $12M Series A led by Builders VC.
- Founding/early engineer at Rubrik, which IPO'd in 2024.
- Holds 10+ patents.
- Published astrophysics research on millimeter-wavelength observations.
- High school valedictorian; co-founded Cal Blueprint at UC Berkeley.

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Augment raised a $12M Series A led by Builders VC and hit roughly a $10M annual run rate, profitably.

## Links

- Website: https://www.noelmoldvai.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noelmoldvai/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/noelregrets
- GitHub: https://github.com/noeleo
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ8GaGepj-o

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Last updated: 2026-06-10