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Thais Branco

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CEO & Founder of Taste Labs | Prev founding team @Exa
San Francisco, California, United States

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  • Stealth
    Founder & CEO
    Stealth
    Oct 2025 - Current (10 months)
    On a mission to end AI slop. Looking for creative technologists to join. Usual suspects include ML researchers, ML engineers, full-stack engineers, design-engineers, and designers obsessed with personalization, data, style, and making technology feel right. Especially if you're working in gen ai, multi-modal, rlhf, gaming, consumer, design tools... you'll have fun here.
  • Taste Labs
    Founder & CEO
    Taste Labs
    Oct 2025 - Current (10 months)
    On a mission to end AI slop. Looking for creative technologists to join. Usual suspects include ML researchers, ML engineers, full-stack engineers, design-engineers, and designers obsessed with personalization, data, style, and making technology feel right. Especially if you're working in gen ai, multi-modal, rlhf, gaming, consumer, design tools... you'll have fun here.
  • Stealth
    Stealth
    Stealth
    Oct 2025 - Current (10 months)
  • Exa
    Head of Strategy & Marketing
    Exa
    Jan 2024 - Current (2 years 7 months)
    Founding team at Exa, where we're building the search engine for AI agents! Built the marketing function from scratch, PMed and launched Websets and led data partnerships.
  • Creio
    Investor
    Creio
    Jan 2024 - Dec 2025 (2 years)
  • Exa
    Founding Head of Strategy & Marketing
    Exa
    Jan 2024 - Oct 2025 (1 year 10 months)
    Founding team at Exa, where we're building the search engine for AI agents! PMed and launched Websets, led data partnerships and built the marketing function from scratch.
  • Creio
    Co-Founder & CPO
    Creio
    Jan 2023 - Dec 2024 (2 years)
  • Hubla
    VP of Growth and Marketing
    Hubla
    Jan 2023 - Dec 2023 (1 year)
    The "Shopify" for creators selling digital products. Backed by Kaszek and YC20. Repositioned product, brand & pricing. Focused on organic growth via community building, PLG and branding activations.
  • Hubla
    VP of Marketing & Growth
    Hubla
    Jan 2023 - Dec 2023 (1 year)
    The "Shopify" for creators selling digital products. Backed by Kaszek and YC20. Repositioned product, brand & pricing. Focused on organic growth via community building, PLG and branding activations.
  • nate
    VP of Marketing
    nate
    Jan 2021 - Dec 2023 (3 years)
    Built and led a team of 15+ across brand, growth, and creator marketing. Built the app's social layer and creator program.
  • nate
    VP of Marketing & Creator Product
    nate
    Jan 2021 - Dec 2023 (3 years)
    Built and led a team of 15+ across product, brand, growth, and creator marketing. Built the app's social layer and creator program.
  • Kraft Heinz
    Strategy & Innovation - Sauces, Desserts and Foodservice
    Kraft Heinz
    Jun 2020 - Sep 2020 (4 months)
    New product development
  • nate
    Brand Strategy Lead
    nate
    Jan 2020 - Dec 2021 (2 years)
    Founding team, built the brand, and launched the consumer app to the public.
  • The Kraft Heinz Company
    Brand Lead for Claussen & Growth Product Innovation
    The Kraft Heinz Company
    Jun 2019 - Jun 2020 (1 year 1 month)
    Brand repositioning, new product development & a pickle obsession
  • Columbia Business School
    Advanced Projects and Applied Research in Fintech
    Columbia Business School
    Mar 2019 - Jun 2019 (4 months)
  • The Kraft Heinz Company
    Springboard Startup Incubator
    The Kraft Heinz Company
    Jun 2018 - Jun 2019 (1 year 1 month)
    Launching 0-1 brands
  • Ambev
    Brand Marketing
    Ambev
    Jan 2016 - Dec 2017 (2 years)
    Master brand repositioning, owned channels revamp, experiential & internal comms.
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  • Latitud
    Fellow
    Latitud
    The YC of Latam. Cohort 11 while building Creio.
  • University of Chicago
    B.A, Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
    University of Chicago
    Graduated with Honors | Trott Business Program | Dean's List | Paris Study Abroad
  • Harvard Business School
    Accepted to MBA 2+2 - dropped out to keep building in tech
    Harvard Business School
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      Gold Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Industry Champion
      PerformanceIn and US Partnership Awards
      Sep 2022
      Award for nate True Colors campaign. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nate-announces-nate-true-colors-campaign-to-raise-funds-for-lgbtqia-organizations-301565191.html https://performancein.com/news/2022/09/08/revealed-the-first-ever-winners-of-the-us-partnership-awards/
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      Inspiring Fintech Female 2021
      NYC Women in Fintech and New York Stock Exchange
      Dec 2021
      Inspiring Fintech Female Leader - https://www.nycfintechwomen.com/iff2021
    • Fast Company
      Innovation by Design Honoree - Fast Company 2021
      Fast Company
      Oct 2021
      Honoring nate as a part of its 2021 Innovation by Design Awards. The program highlights businesses who are solving the problems of today and tomorrow via innovative design, user experience and technology. https://www.fastcompany.com/90667320/user-experience-innovation-by-design-2021
    • University of Chicago
      Dean's List of Academic Excellence
      University of Chicago
    Publications verified_user 0% verified
    • Harpers Bazaar
      Women that Inspire / Mulheres que Inspiram: Thais Castello Branco
      Harpers Bazaar
      Feb 2022
      Profile on my journey from Brazil, to Uchicago and nate, for Harper’s Bazaar series “Women that Inspire”
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      Women's Equality Day - How Emerging Tech Companies Can Change the Status Quo Year Round
      Built in NYC
      Aug 2021
      Why diversity & inclusion matter year round, and how can emerging tech companies contribute to changing the status quo of this industry.
    • BizBash
      The Power of In Person Activations, Even in a Contactless World
      BizBash
      Jun 2021
      How nate created a contactless, experiential marketing activation throughout NYC, in a year of physical distance.
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      Marketing StackUp Talks - The Power of In Person Connection
      Brooklyn Ventures
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