Capability
Founding AI Teams
The first executive hires for AI companies: founding commercial, product and engineering leadership for teams building from seed and Series A.
What the record shows
- MitchelLake's delivered record holds 14 founding ai teams mandates, 2015–2024.
- 8 of those 14 were delivered in Oceania.
- They span 11 client organisations, each with its own engagement record page.
- 906 of the 19,130 market signals in the live window (2026-03-20 to 2026-10-19) carry an AI marker — 5%.
- Capital raising is the largest AI signal type in that window at 626.
- Americas carries the largest share of AI signal flow at 424 signals (47%).
Figures are computed from the delivered engagement record and the live signal corpus at build time, not written.
Delivered mandates (12 of 14)
Applied AI Lab — Head of ProductEMEA · 2024PAM — Head of EngineeringOceania · 2024PAM — Head of ProductOceania · 2024Longtail UX — CEOOceania · 2023Longtail UX Pty Ltd — Head of FinanceOceania · 2023Longtail UX Pty Ltd — Head of TechnologyOceania · 2023Longtail UX Pty Ltd — Head of ProductOceania · 2023Catapult — CEOGlobal · 2019Everguard — CEOAmericas · 2019me&u — Head of SalesOceania · 2019Multiple (Longtail UX, Genbook) — VP Sales (US) / CEOAmericas · 2019SeAH Global Inc — Everguard CEOAmericas · 2019
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