The Hidden VC #8: 40 new companies
This week: a former executive at Vercel, an iconic French founder, and the former GM France & Benelux at a big European scale-up.
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40 leads this week
RoryPlans 🇷🇴
AI-powered planning assistant designed to simplify your life. Former Director of Engineering & Head of TPM at Vercel. Website | LinkedIn | B2B2C, B2C SaaS, AI, Productivity Tools | 2 months old
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Repeat entrepreneur who sold his last company to 🔒. LinkedIn | AI, Deep Tech | 5 months old
Deq 🇨🇿
Enables managers and leadership teams to make presentations right and blazing fast. Director of Engineering at Ataccama. Website | LinkedIn | B2B SaaS, Design & 3D, Product & dev tools, Productivity Tools | 3 months old
🔒 🇫🇷
New project from former 🔒 founder. Website | LinkedIn | B2B, B2B2C API/SDK, Audio, video & AR/VR, Media and Entertainment, Product & dev tools | 1 month old
Wolfpack QA 🇫🇷
Platform designed to help product and development teams manage the entire testing cycle. Head of Product at 52-people company Ermes. Website | LinkedIn | B2B SaaS, Product & dev tools, Productivity Tools | 1 month old
🔒 🇮🇹
Sold his previous company. LinkedIn | AI | 1 month old
Rahim Attaba 🇫🇷
Former EMEA Director of Commerce at Twitch and VP Global Marketing & Comms at The Sandbox. LinkedIn | Gaming | 1 month old
🔒 🇩🇪
Developing 🔒. LinkedIn | B2C SaaS, Health & wellness, AI | 5 months old
Civilized.ai 🇷🇴
Empowering cities with AI: Smarter 311 systems and beyond. Repeat entrepreneur. Website | LinkedIn | B2G SaaS, Gov Tech, AI, Productivity Tools | 5 months old
🔒 🇫🇷
Conversational AI for 🔒. Former GM France & Benelux at 🔒. Website | LinkedIn | B2B SaaS, Proptech & Real Estate, AI, Productivity Tools | 3 months old
Monish Malik 🇬🇧
Former SVP Operations at Gelato and Head of Logistics Expansion at Amazon. LinkedIn | 3 months old
🔒 🇩🇰
PhD in Industrial AI. LinkedIn | AI | 5 months old
Amelie Simard 🇫🇷
Just joined Station F. Grew an eCom brand from €1M to €23M revenue. LinkedIn | 1 month old
🔒 🇬🇧
Former Legal Counsel at 🔒. LinkedIn | Cybersecurity, AI | 2 months old
Phillip Thomas 🇩🇪
Former Head of ML at Parallel Domain. LinkedIn | 3 months old
🔒 🇫🇷
Solution to launch a 🔒. Former CTO and former CoS/VP Product at 🔒. Website | LinkedIn | B2B SaaS, Sales & Marketing, Productivity Tools | 5 months old
Joel Kass 🇪🇸
CoS and Head of Banking Products UK at Revolut. LinkedIn | 2 months old
🔒 🇪🇸
Sold his previous company to 🔒. LinkedIn | 4 months old
Moonwatt 🇳🇱
Building the next generation of utility scale Energy Storage System. Energy storage specialists from Tesla. Website | LinkedIn | B2B Hardware/Physical product, SaaS, Energy, Green Tech, Industry & manufacturing | 2 months old
🔒 🇳🇴
LinkedIn | 3 months old
Tangram Data 🇫🇷
LinkedIn | Data and Analytics | 3 months old
🔒 🇫🇮
Former Chief Strategy Officer at 🔒. LinkedIn | 6 months old
Mark Swan 🇬🇧
Former Lead Operations & Strategy Manager at Revolut. LinkedIn | 3 months old
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Helping 🔒. Former Game and Product Leads at 🔒. Website | LinkedIn | B2B2C, B2C SaaS, Edtech, Productivity Tools, Gaming | 6 months old
Loïc Audebeau 🇫🇷
LinkedIn | Energy, Impact | 1 month old
🔒 🇵🇱
Repeat entrepreneur. LinkedIn | AI | 6 months old
Jack Mayo 🇳🇱
PhD in Mathematical Statistics. LinkedIn | AI | 2 months old
🔒 🇳🇱
LinkedIn | AI | 6 months old
Macto 🇷🇴
Helps create the perfect prompts with AI-powered suggestions. Website | LinkedIn | B2B, B2B2C SaaS, AI, Productivity Tools | 3 months old
🔒 🇩🇰
Democratizing 🔒. Website | LinkedIn | B2B SaaS, Hardware/Physical product, AI, Deep Tech, Data and Analytics | 5 months old
Combinder 🇦🇹
Turn household appliances into Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). Website | LinkedIn | B2C, B2B2C, B2B Other transaction-based, API/SDK, Energy, Green Tech, Crypto | 6 months old
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PhD in NLP. LinkedIn | AI | 2 months old
Mahdi Jelodari 🇬🇧
Award-winning AI researcher. LinkedIn | AI | 1 month old
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Repeat entrepreneur. LinkedIn | AI | 1 month old
Senyao Hou 🇬🇧
Former VC at Project A. LinkedIn | 2 months old
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Former Product Manager at 🔒. LinkedIn | 2 months old
Nea Harjanne 🇫🇮
Former CEO at Finland's #1 Startup Accelerator. Graduate founder. LinkedIn | 1 month old
🔒 🇫🇷
Former Chief of Staff at 🔒. LinkedIn | Data and Analytics, Gov Tech | 1 month old
Ahmed Ahres 🇬🇧
Former ML Engineer - Computer Vision at Revolut. LinkedIn | 1 month old
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Former 🔒. LinkedIn | AI, Medtech | 2 months old
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