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Welcome to another “Picks of the Week” episode where we spotlight the hottest stealth, early, and growth startups across regions and sectors - based on data & signals (find last week’s edition here).
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Stealth Founders 🥷🏻
Eno Thereska 🇬🇧
Experience: Veeam Software, Alcion, AWS, Confluent, Microsoft,
Education: Carnegie Mellon (PhD, BSc)
Experience: Google DeepMind, Stability AI, Anthropic, Google
Education: Stanford (PhD, MSc), University of Cambridge (2x BSc)
Kelvin Tsang 🇬🇧
Experience: Astra Zeneca, Centus Biotherapeutics (Co-Founder), Sandoz
Education: UCL (PhD), University of Pennsylvania (MSc, BSc)
Experience: Amazon, Boxbot, Uber, Automa Systems (Founder), 510 Systems
Education: UC Berkley (PhD, MSc, BSc)
Victor Shao 🇺🇸
Experience: DoorDash, Amazon
Education: Northwestern University (BSc)
Kasia Gora 🇺🇸
Experience: SciFi Foods (Co-Founder), Zymergen, Pronutria
Education: MIT (PhD), Caltech (BSc)
