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Lumen Labs · live intelligence · 2021 → today
Pre-seed2021
Founded by 2 ex-Atlassian engineers
  • First prototype shipped within 4 months
4 people · $600K raised
Series A2023
Opened Sydney office, tripled the team
  • VP Eng hired in Q2, ex-Atlassian
  • 5 eng across 6 months, all from AU scaleups
  • 3 GTM hires: 2 AE from Go1, 1 CS lead from Culture Amp
  • Tier 1 Australian VC leads
38 people · $18M raised
Today2026
Hiring 12 roles across eng and product
  • Hires sourced from 14 different scaleups in 2 years
  • Less than 10% attrition over the last 12 months
  • 4 of 12 open roles are senior+
  • Avg tenure 2.4y across the team
84 people · US + AU teams
Seed2022
Built out core team across eng and GTM
  • 3 engineers hired from top Australian scaleups
  • First PM and first CS hire onboarded
  • Major Australian VC leads, with angel investors
  • First enterprise customer signed Q4
12 people · $3.2M raised
Series B2025
Launched in the US, hired multiple C-suite
  • 12 hires across eng and GTM in 9 months
  • First US hires from top-tier US scaleups
  • US-led round, Australian VC follows on
  • 2 enterprise partnerships announced
65 people · $42M raised
Pre-seed2021
Founded by 2 ex-Atlassian engineers
  • First prototype shipped within 4 months
4 people · $600K raised
Seed2022
Built out core team across eng and GTM
  • 3 engineers hired from top Australian scaleups
  • First PM and first CS hire onboarded
  • Major Australian VC leads, with angel investors
  • First enterprise customer signed Q4
12 people · $3.2M raised
Series A2023
Opened Sydney office, tripled the team
  • VP Eng hired in Q2, ex-Atlassian
  • 5 eng across 6 months, all from AU scaleups
  • 3 GTM hires: 2 AE from Go1, 1 CS lead from Culture Amp
  • Tier 1 Australian VC leads
38 people · $18M raised
Series B2025
Launched in the US, hired multiple C-suite
  • 12 hires across eng and GTM in 9 months
  • First US hires from top-tier US scaleups
  • US-led round, Australian VC follows on
  • 2 enterprise partnerships announced
65 people · $42M raised
Today2026
Hiring 12 roles across eng and product
  • Hires sourced from 14 different scaleups in 2 years
  • Less than 10% attrition over the last 12 months
  • 4 of 12 open roles are senior+
  • Avg tenure 2.4y across the team
84 people · US + AU teams
84
people today
$63.8M
total raised
47
hires tracked
Pre-seed, 2021
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Senior backend engineers in Sydney who've worked at a fintech that scaled past Series B

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Dean Wiegand
Senior Eng · Athena
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Krystal Hahn
Staff Backend · Airwallex
GoPayments
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Marcus Chen
Backend Lead · Tyro
JavaISO 8583
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Narrow to anyone who's actually rebuilt a payments core not integration work, the ledger itself

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KH
Krystal Hahn
Staff Backend · Airwallex
Ledger rebuildISO 20022
MC
Marcus Chen
Backend Lead · Tyro
Core rebuildEvent sourcing
2 of 6 · payments core rebuild
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Senior AI Engineer · Production LLM experience · Series A startup
Deep researchScanning 340+ sources
Multi-source enrichment across GitHub, side projects, career arc, and company growth.
GitHub
Contributing across vLLM, llama.cpp, LangChain · active across 4 OSS repos
Side projects
Custom agent framework running on local models · Discord bot routing prompts through ComfyUI
Career arc
IC to Staff in 4y · stayed through scale at 2 prior roles
Company growth
Joined Eucalyptus pre-Series B · still there 2.5y in
3 strong matches found
NP
Noor Patel
Senior AI Engineer · Eucalyptus
LLMsvLLM
MB
Maya Bose
AI Engineer · ex-DeepMind
QuantisationPyTorch
DV
Dev Varma
AI Engineer · Canva
ServingCUDA
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