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Welcome to another ā€œPicks of the Weekā€ 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 šŸ„·šŸ»

  • Experience: Sourcepulse (Founder), Pyronear (Co-Founder), Mindee, Foodvisor, Criteo

  • Education: Ecole Polytechnique (MSc), CentraleSupĆ©lec (MSc)

Inaki Merino Ruiz šŸ‡ŖšŸ‡ø

  • Experience: Nutual (Co-Founder), realxdata (Co-Founder, Acquired), Pinkstart (Co-Founder, Acquired), Correos, Exis TI

  • Education: Universidad del PaĆ­s Vasco (MSc)

Marcello De Bernardi šŸ‡¬šŸ‡§

  • Experience: Expedia Group, AWS

  • Education: University of Oxford (MSc), Queen Mary University of London (BSc)

Alexander Demidko šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø

  • Experience: Polycam, Matterport, Meta, Cloudless Labs (Co-Founder), Stitch Fix, Metamarkets

  • Education: Novosibirsk State University (MSc & BSc)

Deepak Menghani šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø

  • Experience: Applied Intuition, Google, Matroid, Deutsche Bank

  • Education: Stanford (MSc), Indian Institute of Technology (BSc)

Ning Dong šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø

  • Experience: Meta/FAIR

  • Education: Carnegie Mellon University (MSc), Zhejian University (BSc)

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