🔥Spotlight Stealth, Early & Growth Startups
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“Picks of the Week” spotlights the hottest stealth, early, and growth startups across regions and sectors (find last week’s edition here). Let’s dive in!
Stealth Founders 🥷🏻
Lucas Giordano 🇨🇭
Experience: Oracle, Talent-e, Lleed & Partners
Education: EPFL (MSc & BSc)
Lars Ettrup 🇩🇰
Experience: Linkfire (Co-Founder), Look Curious (Co-Founder), Nodes
Education: IT-Universitetet (MSc), Middlesex University (BSc)
Nikos Drandakis 🇬🇷
Experience: Flyway (Co-Founder), Beat (Founder, Acquired), Panteion University, Action Global Communications, PROFILE, Libecom
Education: Technologiko Ekpaideutiko, Idrima (BSc)
Luis Vargas 🇺🇸
Experience: Microsoft, GE Treasury Systems, GMatrix
Education: Cambridge (PhD), University of Essex (MSc), Instituto Tecnologico de Celaya (BSc)
Harish Agarwal 🇺🇸
Experience: Spotify, Chartable (Co-Founder, Acquired), Outrank (Co-Founder), AngelList, Octopart
Education: University of California, Berkley (MSc), University of Cambridge (MSc), University of Illinois (BSc)
Naheed Kurji 🇺🇸
Experience: Recursion, EntheogeniX Bioscience (Co-Founder), Pertrurba Therapeutics (Co-Founder), Bank of Montreal, SmartServe (Co-Founder), TD, Focus
Education: University of Toronto (MBA)