🔥Rising Stars: 10 Startups with Strong Momentum and Success Signals
Alumni from NVIDIA and DeepMind to Harvard and Oxford
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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 🥷🏻
Rory Fearson 🇮🇪
Experience: Personio, Google, Google DeepMind, SAGE PAY, Accenture
Education: Trinity College Dublin (BSc)
Timo Kuschma 🇬🇧
Experience: Humanloop, Stability AI, Tecton, Quantum Black, McKinsey, Stanford University
Education: Heidelberg University (M.D.)
Harry Clifford 🇬🇧
Experience: NVIDIA, CCG.ai, (Co-Founder, Acquired), Cambridge University, The University of Nottingham
Education: University of Oxford (PhD), University of Nottingham (MSc)
Uğur Kaner 🇺🇸
Experience: Collective (Co-Founder), Memebox Corporation, Udemy, Elisa, Kuneri (Founder), Digitalist Group, Bittium, SAP
Education: University of Oulu (MSc), Middle East Technical University (BSc)
Lawrence Ibarria 🇺🇸
Experience: Nighthawk Robotics (Founder), Verdant Robotics (Co-Founder), Cruise Automation, NVIDIA
Education: Georgia Institute of Technology (PhD, MSc), Polytechnic University of Catalunya (BSc)
Brendan Falk 🇺🇸
Experience: AWS, Fig (Co-Founder, Acquired), Brex
Education: Harvard (BSc)