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Founders

The founders our desk is tracking, with their most recent verified event. Profiles are built from published sources — never from speculation.

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Nik Storonsky

cofounder and CEO

Startup
Revolut
Location
Latest
Revolut's CEO, Nik Storonsky, stated the company is considering a dual stock market listing in London and New York to access a broader investor base.

Coverage tracked

60

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Startup
Fortell
Location
Latest
AI hearing aid startup Fortell secured $163 million from investors including Founders Fund and Thrive Capital to disrupt the hearing aid market with intelligent sound processing.

Coverage tracked

40

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Elon Musk

Founder

Startup
The Boring Company
Location
Latest
Elon Musk's The Boring Company raised $3 billion in a Series D round, marking the largest global funding event of the week.

Coverage tracked

40

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LK

Louis Kirsch, Kaloyan Aleksiev, Tantum Collins, Edward Hughes

CEO, Chief Scientist, Chief Product and Operations Officer

Startup
Inherent
Location
London
Latest
London-based AI lab Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, has secured $50 million in backing from Index and Radical.

Coverage tracked

20

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Chase Lochmiller

co-founder and CEO

Startup
Crusoe
Location
Latest
AI infrastructure firm Crusoe has raised $3.9 billion in a Series F round to expand its data centre projects and develop modular AI factories.

Coverage tracked

20

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Shane Legg

DeepMind co-founder, managing editor of the DeepMind Institute

Startup
Google DeepMind
Location
Latest
Google DeepMind has launched a new institute to foster wider debate and diverse perspectives on artificial general intelligence (AGI) and its implications.

Coverage tracked

20

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BH
Startup
PrismML
Location
Latest
PrismML launched Bonsai 2 27B, a compact LLM that fits on PCs and smartphones, maintaining 98% performance of larger models after a $22.25M seed round.

Coverage tracked

20

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LC
Startup
Comp AI
Location
Latest
Comp AI, a cybersecurity and compliance startup, has raised a $34 million Series A round led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures to expand its AI-powered platform.

Coverage tracked

20

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PA
Startup
MicroLub
Location
Leeds
Latest
Leeds-based MicroLub raised €8.7 million ($10 million) in a funding round led by Northern Gritstone to scale its fat-replacement technology.

Coverage tracked

20

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Patrick Ryan

Co-founder

Startup
Odin
Location
Latest
Odin co-founder Patrick Ryan discussed how the platform is transforming private investment, enabling new fund managers and streamlining VC operations.

Coverage tracked

20

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Matthias Zühlke, David Nellessen

Co-founder and CEO (Matthias Zühlke), Co-founder (David Nellessen)

Startup
syte
Location
Münster, Germany
Latest
Münster-based PropTech startup syte has raised €9 million in a Series A round led by amberra to expand its AI-powered real estate analytics platform across Europe.

Coverage tracked

20

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Startup
Emulate
Location
London
Latest
DeepMind alumnus Jack Parker-Holder's new AI lab, Emulate, is reportedly nearing a $700m fundraise, which could value the London-based company at $4.1bn.

Coverage tracked

20

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JK

Jacob Key

Cofounder

Startup
Luminar Ventures
Location
Stockholm
Latest
Luminar Ventures, a Stockholm-based VC firm, has topped Sifted's Nordics investor ranking for two years, leveraging a cofounder's network and an in-house AI system for early-stage deal sourcing.

Coverage tracked

20

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Startup
Noise
Location
Latest
Noise, a marketing platform connecting brands with everyday content creators, has secured $5.5 million in seed funding to expand its product and team.

Coverage tracked

20

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Yin Wu

Founder

Startup
Pulley
Location
Latest
Cap table management platform Pulley is shutting down, having partnered with rival Carta to offload its customer base.

Coverage tracked

20

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Max Hodak

CEO, Co-founder

Startup
Science Corporation
Location
Latest
Science Corporation, led by Max Hodak, secured a $230 million Series C round at a $1.5 billion valuation to advance its brain-computer interface technology.

Coverage tracked

20

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Jeff Green

Founder and CEO

Startup
Fluxnium
Location
Latest
Clean tech startup Fluxnium secured $7 million in seed funding to advance its technology for extracting uranium from seawater, addressing nuclear fuel supply challenges.

Coverage tracked

20

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VS
Startup
Hang Ten Systems
Location
Latest
AI startup Hang Ten Systems, founded by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, secured an additional $53 million in seed funding, bringing its total to $85 million.

Coverage tracked

20

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Ahmed Alenazi

Founder and CEO

Startup
barq
Location
Riyadh
Latest
Saudi digital payments firm Barq raised $329.5 million in a Series A funding round, achieving a $1.85 billion valuation and unicorn status.

Coverage tracked

20

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Chris Ellis, Adam Stevenson

co-founder and CEO, co-founder

Startup
Thatch
Location
Latest
Health benefits platform Thatch secured $108 million from existing investors, achieving a $1 billion valuation amid surging healthcare costs.

Coverage tracked

20

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CD
Startup
Euclyd
Location
Latest
Dutch AI efficiency startup Euclyd raised a €200m Series A round from Samsung's Catalyst Fund and European Investment Bank, with Peter Wennink joining as chairman.

Coverage tracked

20

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Tuomo Riekki

co-to-founder

Startup
Zero
Location
Helsinki
Latest
Helsinki-based Zero secured $10.3m in seed funding to develop AI tools aimed at replacing traditional CRM systems.

Coverage tracked

20

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Diogo Almeida

Chief Executive

Startup
TypeSafe AI Inc.
Location
San Francisco
Latest
TypeSafe AI exits stealth with $40M in seed funding led by DCVC to develop Jev, an AI model for software applications that provides structured decisions.

Coverage tracked

20

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Declan Shine

President of ETH Robotics Club

Startup
Location
Latest
ETH Zurich students, led by ETH Robotics Club president Declan Shine, have built Xalun, a 100% Swiss-made humanoid robot, and are now seeking funding.

Coverage tracked

20

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Sabir Sami

Director

Startup
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.
Location
Latest
Chipotle Mexican Grill has appointed Sabir Sami, a veteran with over 30 years of global consumer and restaurant experience, to its Board of Directors.

Coverage tracked

20

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Joe Gammie

Cofounder

Startup
UtilityInnovation Group
Location
Latest
UtilityInnovation Group, a clean energy firm, is being acquired by Vertiv for a projected $2.6 billion, addressing power demands from the AI boom.

Coverage tracked

20

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Tamay Besiroglu

co-founder and former CEO

Startup
Mechanize
Location
Latest
Google completed a deal for AI startup Mechanize, bringing co-founder Tamay Besiroglu and other employees into Google DeepMind to boost AI coding capabilities.

Coverage tracked

20

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Ilit Raz

founder and former Chief Executive Officer

Startup
Joonko Diversity, Inc.
Location
US
Latest
Ilit Raz, former CEO of Israeli AI startup Joonko, pleaded guilty to defrauding investors of $27 million by misrepresenting the company's financials and customer base.

Coverage tracked

20

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WA
Startup
Clauze.AI
Location
Latest
White & Case has strategically invested in Clauze.AI, a Saudi legal AI startup developing a contract review and due diligence tool for Middle Eastern clients.

Coverage tracked

20

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Amr Mouaqit

Chief Executive Officer

Startup
Charikaty
Location
Latest
Moroccan legaltech Charikaty secured a pre-seed round at a €3M valuation, backed by Red Tape Ventures and others, to expand its accounting and compliance services across MENA.

Coverage tracked

20

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Clara Lepsius

cofounder

Startup
Aluere
Location
Zurich
Latest
Swiss startup Aluere highlights the ongoing challenge for European founders to secure sufficient funding to scale their businesses, often leading them to US markets.

Coverage tracked

20

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IY
Startup
DataAgent
Location
Latest
DataAgent has emerged from stealth with $10 million in pre-seed funding, launching an AI platform for autonomous Kubernetes remediation.

Coverage tracked

20

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Peter Adderton

Original Boost Mobile founder, backs MobileX

Startup
MobileX
Location
Latest
Charlie Ergen's CONX Wireless Holdings acquired a 60.93% stake in MVNO MobileX for $200 million, with Peter Adderton retaining 19.42%.

Coverage tracked

20

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KP
Startup
Gear’d
Location
Springfield, Missouri
Latest
Missouri founder Krista Peryer launched Gear’d, an online platform that helps users find suitable outdoor equipment and apparel for hiking, backpacking, and camping.

Coverage tracked

20

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KM
Startup
HeyBreez
Location
Latest
HeyBreez, a MENA-born enterprise voice AI startup, secured $2.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round to expand its platform and sales globally.

Coverage tracked

20

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