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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).
This format is a collaboration with Harmonic as they help us source the companies based on unique growth signals. Get a personalized feed of trending startups for your specific criteria here.
Let’s dive in!
Stealth Founders 🥷🏻
Experience: Meta, Delivery Hero, OLX Group, IDAGIO, Zageno, 4 Scotty, Rocket Internet, Bank of America, SkillPages, Microsoft, Ammado, J. Walter Thompson, Lucca, Eimtech (Founder), Busybee
Education: Politecnico di Milano
Experience: Restaurant Brands Iberia, Klarna, Glovo, Amazon, BoA Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan
Education: Columbia Business School (MSc), CUNEF Universidad (BSc)
Experience: Royal Society of Biology, Shift Bioscience, UCL, LabGenious, Odyssey Therapeutics, Rahko, University of Oxford, ETH
Education: UCL (PhD), ETH (MSc), University of Augsburg (BSc)
Nathaniel C. 🇺🇸
Experience: Riley (Co-Founder), PwC, Hartena (Founder), Cartesian), Cleo
Education: MIT/Harvard (MBA), Technion (MSc), EPFL (BSc)
Experience: Platter, Vermont Lake Monsters, Hyannis Harbor Hawks, nference,
Education: MIT (BSc)
Experience: Karibu.ai (Co-Founder), Intuit, Grishin Robotics, Walmart Global Tech, Goldman Sachs, Infosys
Education: Yale (MBA), University of Texas at Austin (MSc), Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (BSc)
