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Percepto's co-founders Dor Abuhasira and Ariel Avitan spent more than a decade building its drone business. Axion analyzes data from other fleets and sensors.

Ndoc combines analysis, data models and presentations in one workspace; Patel says he wants to build independently after 7.8 years at Meta.

Shihipar confirmed his departure on October 24th. Morris said the previous day was his last at Anthropic, confirming the second exit reported that day.

The former Talkspace product chief takes charge as Change.org deploys a three-year, contributor-funded plan for AI-assisted campaigns and outreach.

In a podcast released October 19th, Luana Lopes Lara describes fearing failure at a $1 billion valuation and pushing Kalshi to sue the CFTC.

Boodaei will stay on as chairman to guide product strategy and AI-agent security as ID.me co-founder Thompson takes over daily leadership.

The filing estimates about $180M in compensation and retention for roughly 65 employees. Disney's separate $20M stalking-horse license bid remains subject to court approval and higher offers.

Better's first Better 2.0 board appointment comes days after shareholders restored founder Vishal Garg's control of the mortgage lender's board.

Armughan Ahmad joins the board as Dave Wessinger pursues an AI-first strategy at PointClickCare, founded to keep technology out of clinicians' way.

Sachin Katti is expected to leave in November after about a year leading computing capacity. The Wall Street Journal reported the departure on October 14th and said OpenAI plans roughly $750 billion in computing spend through 2030.

Airtable's new product lead says affected employees will leave by the end of the week as the owner prioritizes core improvements, AI features and smaller teams.

Baiju Bhatt says Reason-1 is communicating daily after its October 1st launch; its power-beaming demonstration and Cowboy Space's orbital data-center plan are still ahead.

Humanitas says employee deployments at several unnamed Fortune 50 companies are scheduled to begin January 1st, 2027. Vestberg joins as an adviser and investor.

Prasad takes over on October 7th after months of interim leadership, with Atlas deployments planned for 2026 and Hyundai's Georgia plant in 2028.

The Anthropic engineer says he will bring the research-workflow approach he built for scientists to AI tools for doctors.

Vivian Shen and Raphael Schaad previously advised YC founders as Visiting Partners; Garry Tan says the partnership now numbers 19, a count the public roster does not neatly reconcile.

The Georgia Tech professor joins as chief research officer with seven researchers, bringing a lab-built startup into Microagi's push to deploy robots in factories.

The new directors include two IRL co-founders; Mullenweg said in 2024 that he controls 84% of Automattic’s voting power.

Andrew Schwartz and Bhavik Patel return after Toast acquired xtraCHEF for $48M, with Michael Schulson shaping an agent layer piloting at 100 restaurant locations.

The German indie developer says a September 17th post about plain-language Postgres search changed his life and led to the move.

Cofounder Oleksandr Matsiuk says the arrangement pushed him to roughly double an already aggressive target, turning dissent into a management system.

Anand starts October 2nd, and Disney says several Character.AI engineers are expected to follow him into the newly centralized role.

Inertia's $450M bet pairs Twilio's former CEO with the scientists behind laser ignition, then asks them to industrialize it.

Based in Sunnyvale, de Martel will run finance as Wayve expands supervised robotaxis and prepares automaker integrations.