🔥Rising Stars: 10 Startups with Strong Momentum and Success Signals
Alumni from DeepMind and Roche to Oxford and INSEAD
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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 🥷🏻
Sakina Turabali 🇸🇪
Experience: Steep, Cling Systems, KTH Innovation, CodeEasy (Co-Founder), Akrion (Co-Founder), Antler, Truecaller, Atchik, zMessenger, Gonuts with Donuts
Education: The Chartered Institute of Marketing
Alessandro Raponi 🇮🇹
Experience: Equixly, Google, Splunk, Salesforce, Rocket Internet
Education: Università Bocconi (MSc & MSc)
Asim Shaikh 🇬🇧
Experience: SkillReactor (Founder), J.P. Morgan, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Unicod4 (Co-Founder), TPS Pakistan
Education: University of Southampton (MSc), Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology (BSc)
Olivier Causse 🇺🇸
Experience: Uber Fright, Verdane, Equinor Ventures, Statoil, LightSail Energy
Education: Harvard (MBA), University of California (MSc), Arts et Métiers (BSc)
Greg Warden 🇺🇸
Experience: SeatGeek, Chainalysis, DigitalOcean, Atlassian, where.com, Thomson Reuters, Par3 Communications, EnvoyWorldWide, Voice Control Systems, PureSpeech (Co-Founder, Acquired), Symmetrix
Education: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (MSc)
Ben Wallace 🇺🇸
Experience: LinkedIn, Amazon, Uber, Depict, Google
Education: University of Oxford (MSc)