He used to be CFO at several other tech companies, including Palo Alto Networks and Confluent. Vercel, an AI startup valued at more than $3 billion, just bulked up its board with the addition of a finance executive who has experience taking tech companies public. AdvertisementStripe Chief Financial Officer Steffan Tomlinson will serve as a director on Vercel's board, the startup said on Tuesday. Vercel is earlier in its lifecycle, however the AI startup has been putting some of the early pieces in place to potentially go public someday. Vercel's AI SDK, a software toolkit that helps developers build AI applications, was downloaded more than 700,000 times last week, up from about 80,000 downloads a year ago, according to NPM data.

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Persons: Vercel, Steffan Tomlinson, Tomlinson, Michael Lacorazza, Guillermo Rauch, Marten Abrahamsen, He's, Abrahamsen, Rauch, Collison Organizations: Palo Alto Networks, Aruba Networks, Bank, Vercel's, Business, Microsoft