Proud to see our former ARNI postdoc, Mehdi Azabou, become a startup founder—congratulations to Mehdi and the Constellation team on their $10M raise! Mehdi was a driving force behind several institute-wide collaborations at ARNI, and it’s exciting to see his vision translate into real-world impact. Constellation is hiring software engineers, AI researchers, and data scientists. #AI #AIresearch #Constellation #neuroscience #neuroAI #softwareengineers #datascientists
TL;DR: Our company raised a bunch of money and we’re using it to hire the best folks. What a beautiful privilege and wacky ride it’s been to get to this point. My brilliant cofounder Mehdi Azabou and I have been building Constellation Systems, Inc with our **stellar** team. We just closed our seed round to bring our total raised to just under $10 million! We’re putting that money to work, building the next generation of foundation models of human state and collecting the largest multimodal dataset of humanity, ever. If you’re interested in joining us to build out the future of neurotech, artificial intelligence, and human autonomy in an age of AI, please reach out or apply directly at constellationlab.io. Right now, we’re mainly looking for our Founding Frontend Engineer, Data Infrastructure Engineer, and Founding Applied Scientist. Whatever your background, if you want to solve huge, important, previously unsolved problems with a team that I’m excited to see every morning, hit us up. I want to make VERY explicit that we couldn’t have gotten to this point without an amazing group of friends, advisors, and funders. Our preseed was led by Starbloom Capital and Long Journey. Special shoutouts to Jarod Rutledge and Patrick Mineault and Arielle Zuckerberg and Cyan Banister for being beacons and the second believers in the magically weird. Our seed was led by Starbloom and MaC Venture Capital, with huge props to Adrian Fenty and Dela Adedze for setting us up for so much success due to their belief in us and our vision. Other funders include Satori Capital's Amy Kruse (a friend and neurotech legend), Halcyon Ventures’s Mike McCormick, FalconX Ventures's Angad Randhawa, Seed Club Ventures, Edge City (their first investment, woah, thanks Janine Leger and Timour Kosters), Ocean Protocol, and others. Angels: people who believed in me so much that they put in their own human doll hairs (USD). There’s Ryan Fox Squire (literal GOAT, DM, friend), Pablo Lubroth, Bek Nurgazy, and Trent McConaghy. Our advisors (formal and informal) along the way: There’s David Segar (special early thought co-founder), Corey Keller, Saturnin Pugnet, Blake Richards, Konrad Kording, Eva Dyer, Stephen O'Driscoll, and Tim Gardner. And oh my god the FRIENDS. Katherine Jones essentially made this company happen. Ari Wright believes in us more than any single person outside of our company. Tarin Ziyaee is the reason I gave my first good pitch. Tyler Benster showed me how to build a company with Neuroscience & grace. Alan Tomusiak taught me how to tell important stories in the clearest way possible. Naveen Rao for listening to me cry. I also want to shout out to the Foresight Institute, of which it was announced today that I am a 2026 Fellow! I’m joining the ranks of some inspiring humans dedicated to putting the world on a good path. And also, thanks Mom (Kathy Cantor, BSN, RN), for believing in me maybe more than Ari. And Julia for all the love.
