Powell is a community of technologists with deep computer science or strong media backgrounds, based out of a house in San Francisco at the intersection of Powell and Lombard St.
Founded in 2024, Powell has produced seven companies. Each team met their co-founders and developed their initial ideas here.
- DoubleSpeed (a16z)
- Jooba (a16z)
- Canvas (YC F24)
- Sciloop (YC F25)
- Claybird (YC F25)
- Hex Security (YC W26)
- Twolabs (YC X26)
We host private fireside chats in our backyard. To date, we've hosted:
- Rohan from Clarity (acq. Cursor)
- Eno from Factory
- Sam from Delphi
- Jeffery from Exa
- Paul from Browserbase
- Jed from Google Labs
Folks tend to join Powell when they're looking for their next thing and move out after discovering it.
Abdullah Nauman
Claybird (YC F25)
Led infra for $1b project at Google
Yasin Ehsaan
Headstarter
a16z Scout
Saad Jamal
Claybird (YC F25)
On leave from UChicago Law
Faizan Syed
TikTok Influencer (500M views)
Created the Muslim niche
Hassan Syed
Doublespeed
Built Google's data warehouse for Ads ML
Zuhair Lakhani
Doublespeed
Scaled creative agency for top brands
Ahmad Khan
Hex Security (YC F25)
First intern class at OpenAI
Prama Yudhistra
Hex Security (YC F25)
Founding Eng at Codegen
Bilal Asmatullah
Sciloop (YC F25)
Represented Pakistan at the IPhO
Osman Siddique
Sciloop (YC F25)
Represented Pakistan at the IPhO
Mark Benliyan
Jooba
Worked on the Mars Rover
Burhan Drak Sibai
Jooba
Did pre-training for Ashish Vaswani
Roy Jad
Head of Design @ Context
Scaled 7-figure design agency
Joseph Jojoe
sampling latent space
with elad gil
Essam Sleiman
Canvas (YC F25)
Trained Twitch's video foundation model
Abdulla Abubakre
CEO @ InterviewCoder
Designed VR headsets at ByteDance
Shrey Pandya
Growth @ Browserbase
Created the startup scene at Michigan
Tawsif Kamal
Founding Engineer @ Google Jules
Sameel Arif
Founding Engineer @ Browserbase
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Feel free to contact us at team@powell.st