Post-Rupa Acquisition Free Agents, Casap and Myriad AI Launches, and Key Hires at Anthropic and Microsoft

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Free agents

Olivia Jamison seeks a founding recruiter or recruiting lead role at a Series A-D company in SF (in-person or remote). She built Rupa's entire talent function from scratch, focusing on engineering hires and establishing recruiting processes.

Aidan Bevis is looking for a technical sourcer or HR generalist role at startups or big tech. Based in SF, he brings expertise in technical recruitment and has developed comprehensive equity resources while managing HR operations for Rupa.

Evelina Artemenko seeks remote executive assistant roles. She demonstrated exceptional planning skills by organizing Rupa's 75+ person annual offsite, managing everything from themed swag to team activities.

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Shanthi Shanmugam and Saisi have launched Casap, an AI-powered platform automating payment disputes and chargebacks for financial institutions. Drawing from their experience scaling operations at Robinhood and Chime, they're tackling the $3 billion annual cost of processing disputes faced by major U.S. banks. 

Ralf Schonherr has unveiled Myriad AI, a compliance automation platform for financial institutions. The company addresses the growing challenge of regulatory compliance, where U.S. banks alone paid over $10 billion in fines last year. Myriad AI's platform provides real-time regulatory monitoring and risk assessment, helping companies navigate the 200,000+ pages of U.S. federal code. 

Ron Nachum has launched Sapien, raising an $8.7M seed round led by General Catalyst with participation from tech and finance angels. The company is developing autonomous financial analysts to transform enterprise finance, with early results showing significant time savings and error detection capabilities in multi-million dollar transactions.

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Harsh Shah has stepped down from his role as CEO of Fynd after 12 years of founding and leading the company. Under his leadership, Fynd expanded from India to UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia, growing to over 2,500 team members. While stepping back from day-to-day operations, Shah will remain on the board and serve as an evangelist for the company.

Thomas Zimmermann has departed Microsoft after 16 years of service, where he contributed to groundbreaking projects as a Sr. Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research.

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