THE PEOPLE

THE PEOPLE BEHIND NAZARE

World's best talent partners, with years of experience helping ambitious AI companies find the people they need to build, deploy and scale.

Alex van Klaveren

Co-Founder & CEO

26+ years building and scaling tech businesses. Multiple successful exits, with strong relationships across the VC ecosystem.

Anjor Kanekar

Board Advisor & Founding Shareholder

7 years at Palantir as a Forward Deployed Engineer. Conducted 1,000+ technical interviews. PhD in Computational Physics.

Arielle Carrara

Senior Talent Partner

10+ years building teams. Expertise in AI and deep tech talent acquisition from companies like Palantir and Stripe.

Sofiane LahlaouI

Senior Talent Partner

Specializes in AI and deep tech talent. Worked with Mistral AI, RELEX Solutions, and Comand AI.

Marija Grebović

Senior Talent Partner

8+ years in technical recruitment. Former Head of Sourcing, with experience at Airwallex and early-stage AI startups.

Fraser Gibson

Senior Talent Partner

15 years in professional football talent scouting. Now applies the same skills to identifying AI industry talent.

THE KNOWLEDGE HUB

INSIGHTS FROM THE FRONTIER OF AI DEPLOYMENT

Perspectives on the people, roles, and ideas shaping how AI gets deployed in the real world.

How to ride the FDE wave into 2027

Forward Deployed Engineering spent most of its life as a slightly strange corner of the technology industry. Palantir had FDEs. A few companies borrowed the model. Most engineers could go through an entire career without

Everyone wants an FDE. Almost nobody agrees on where to find one.

Forward Deployed Engineers have become one of the more awkward hiring problems in AI. The demand is real enough. Research shared with TechCrunch by executive search firm Christian & Timbers found that the share of

The better the models get, the more FDEs we seem to need

Earlier this month, Anthropic announced that it is committing $100 million to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027. The programme is more substantial than the usual enterprise certification exercise. Engineers are

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