🔥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 🥷🏻
Marcel Katenhusen 🇩🇪
Experience: Februar (Co-Founder), lemon.markets (Co-Founder), Social Match, Social Ads, InfluencerDB
Education: University of Münster (BSc)
Thish Nadesan 🇬🇧
Experience: Cash App, Cleo, Bain & Company, Onefinestay, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Education: Johns Hopkins (MSc), University of Oxford (BSc)
Alhussein Fawzi 🇬🇧
Experience: Google DeepMind, UCLA
Education: EPFL (PhD, MSc)
Vaish R. 🇺🇸
Experience: Vesta, Brex, Blend, Facebook
Education: University of Michigan (BSc)
Santosh Sharan 🇺🇸
Experience: Retention.com, RB2B, ContactOut, Apollo.io, LeadGenius, Everstring, Aberdeen, ZoomInfo, Nuance Communications, Keisense (Co-Founder, Acquired), Transform Pharmaceuticals, Digitas, WorldStreet
Education: LBS (MBA), Harvard (MSc), Birla Institute of Technology (BSc)
Michael Silver 🇺🇸
Experience: Jamsocket, Gather
Education: MIT (BSc)