🔥Rising Stars: 10 Startups with Strong Momentum and Success Signals
Alumni from Meta and Google to Oxford and Stanford
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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 🥷🏻
Francois-Guillaume Fernandez 🇫🇷
Experience: Sourcepulse (Founder), Pyronear (Co-Founder), Mindee, Foodvisor, Criteo
Education: Ecole Polytechnique (MSc), CentraleSupélec (MSc)
Inaki Merino Ruiz 🇪🇸
Experience: Nutual (Co-Founder), realxdata (Co-Founder, Acquired), Pinkstart (Co-Founder, Acquired), Correos, Exis TI
Education: Universidad del País Vasco (MSc)
Marcello De Bernardi 🇬🇧
Experience: Expedia Group, AWS
Education: University of Oxford (MSc), Queen Mary University of London (BSc)
Alexander Demidko 🇺🇸
Experience: Polycam, Matterport, Meta, Cloudless Labs (Co-Founder), Stitch Fix, Metamarkets
Education: Novosibirsk State University (MSc & BSc)
Deepak Menghani 🇺🇸
Experience: Applied Intuition, Google, Matroid, Deutsche Bank
Education: Stanford (MSc), Indian Institute of Technology (BSc)
Ning Dong 🇺🇸
Experience: Meta/FAIR
Education: Carnegie Mellon University (MSc), Zhejian University (BSc)