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Contrario
Contrario is a San Francisco AI recruiting company that pairs specialized human recruiters with AI agents to source, screen, and deliver vetted candidates to startups within days. Founded in 2025 by Stanford dropouts Arya Marwaha and Aditya Sood, it operates as a hybrid between a traditional agency and recruiting software, using AI talent scorecards and graph-based matching while automating scheduling and follow-ups. The company reached roughly $6M in annualized revenue and paid over $1M to recruiters within six months of operating, and raised a $2.3M seed led by Nexus Venture Partners.
Talently
Talently is a Latin American tech-talent marketplace that connects US and global companies with senior, bilingual, AI-vetted software engineers and digital professionals across LATAM. Founded in Peru in 2018, it began as an upskilling platform and pivoted into a hiring and staff-augmentation engine that delivers vetted candidate shortlists in 48-72 hours and gets teams up and running in about 21 days. The company blends automated technical and English screening with human-led evaluations for culture and communication fit, and handles contracts, payroll, compliance, and IP.
Ariel Quinones
Ariel Quinones is the co-founder and co-CEO of Ironhack, a global tech bootcamp he launched in Madrid in 2013 with Gonzalo Manrique after the two met at Wharton. Raised in a Puerto Rican family of educators, he spotted a mismatch he could not unsee: youth unemployment above 50% in Spain sitting beside hundreds of thousands of unfilled tech jobs. Ironhack was his answer - short, intensive, outcomes-obsessed training that has since graduated thousands of career-changers across campuses in Europe, the Americas, and beyond. He now leads from Miami, preaching a gospel of ruthless focus on student outcomes and over-delivering on what people expect.
Ironhack
Ironhack is a global tech school offering intensive bootcamps in web development, data analytics, UX/UI design, cybersecurity, AI engineering and more. Founded in 2013, it runs on-campus programs across cities in Europe, Latin America and the US plus a remote track, pairing immersive project-based training with embedded career services and a network of hiring partners to move career-changers into tech jobs quickly.
Dylan Serota
Dylan Serota is the CEO and Co-Founder of Terminal, a global tech talent marketplace that connects elite remote engineers with high-growth companies. After building a 100-person engineering team in Mendoza, Argentina during his time at Eventbrite, he co-founded Terminal in 2017 at the Atomic venture studio alongside Joe Lonsdale (Palantir co-founder) and Jack Abraham. Terminal has raised over $27M in funding including a $17M Series B led by 8VC, serves 100+ clients including Hims&Hers, iCapital, and Grindr, and is on track for nearly $50M in gross revenue. Serota took over as CEO in 2024 and has become a prominent voice on AI's impact on engineering talent and the future of distributed work.
Manara
Manara is a Silicon Valley-backed edtech company training and placing software engineers, AI and cloud talent across the Middle East and North Africa. Through cohort-based learning, mentorship from senior engineers at companies like Google and Meta, and partnerships with AWS, Manara has trained over 300,000 learners and helped hundreds land jobs at global tech firms.
Wayne Hu
Wayne Hu is a General Partner at SignalFire, the AI-native venture capital firm he helped build from its first investment team in 2015. A Princeton-trained mathematician turned Google strategist turned VC, he led the YouTube ads monetization operation at Google before pivoting to investing — backing companies like Grow Therapy, EvenUp, and Solace from the earliest stages. His edge is equal parts pattern recognition and proprietary data: SignalFire's Beacon AI platform ingests signals about talent, market trends, and founder trajectories that most investors never see. He invests where incumbents haven't bothered — sectors ripe for end-to-end reinvention.
Rohini Mukand
Rohini Mukand is a Partner on the HR team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms. With a career spanning HR leadership at some of tech and retail's biggest names - Amazon (AWS and Alexa), eBay/PayPal, Ross Stores, and Delivery Agent - she now helps shape the people strategy behind a firm managing over $39 billion in assets. Educated at Swarthmore College in Sociology and Anthropology, she brings a humanist lens to the high-stakes world of building technology organizations.