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Commercial Associate

Kernel · London · Early£40K – £70K • Offers Equity

Business Development Representative

Kernel · London · Early£40K – £70K • Offers Equity

Business Operations Associate

Kernel · London · Early£60K – £85K • Offers Equity

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how it's scored

Capital freshness22/35

Hiring velocity3/30

Comp transparency20/20

Workplace rating7/15

Recomputed daily from public data: capital freshness (0-35) + hiring velocity (0-30) + pay transparency (0-20) + employer rating (0-15; unrated scores the neutral 7), minus up to 10 for documented headwinds (lawsuits, layoffs, leadership churn). Transparent formula, not investment or career advice.

22Mtotal raised

Series A, $22M (combined seed + A), 2025last round

Earlystage

1-50team size

San FranciscoHQ

2025founded

~6headcount (as of 2026)

Founders: Catherine Jue (co-founder & CEO; co-founded Sway Finance (YC S16), led Cash App forward-deployed engineering) · Rafael Garcia (co-founder & CTO; co-founder/CTO of Clever (YC S12), exited for $500M in 2021)

Backed by: Accel, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Vercel Ventures, Cintrifuse Capital

Signals

Accel-led, YC-backed; unikernel architecture with sub-325ms cloud browser startup for AI agents.

In the news

AI is finding thousands of bugs in Linux, and maintainers can barely keep up TechSpot · 2026-09-02

Linux kernel nears record 2,000 vulnerabilities per release as AI bug hunters scour 40 million lines of code — maintainers say they are 'com Tom's Hardware · 2026-09-01

Linus Torvalds rebukes anti-AI stances in the Linux kernel code review process, says 'Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects' — creator Tom's Hardware · 2026-07-16

AI Helps Drive Number of Linux Kernel CVEs to Near 2,000 Per Release Security Boulevard · 2026-09-01

Auto-pulled from Google News, refreshed daily; headlines belong to their publishers

Culture read

Small team: high trust, high variance, nowhere to hide.

Indicative read from public signals, not insider info

Momentum index 52/100 = capital freshness (0-35) + hiring velocity (0-30) + comp transparency (0-20) + workplace rating (0-15), minus documented headwinds. Recomputed daily; not investment or career advice.