The Hidden VC #9: 37 new companies
This week: a former executive at a French scale-up, the German Hellofresh COO building something new, and many more stealth founders.
The Hidden VC is a weekly newsletter for European investors and anyone looking to discover promising European pre-seed and seed startups—including founders in stealth mode.
Y Combinator’s new batch (YC F24) is little by little coming out of stealth. We made a post on LinkedIn with the 16 European founders/companies we’ve found so far. Now on to our weekly leads👇
37 leads this week
Tristan Vié 🇫🇷
Former Chief of Sales at Jobteaser.
LinkedIn | B2B, B2B2C, SaaS, AI, HR & Future of Work, Edtech | 2 months old
🔒 🇬🇧
Former CEO of a 430-people group, former Associate Partner at 🔒.
LinkedIn | Health & wellness, Biotech & science | 2 months old
Virginia Baillie Strong 🇱🇺
Former Chief Operating Officer, DACH at HelloFresh. Female founder.
LinkedIn | 5 months old
🔒 🇪🇸
Former Country Manager Spain at 🔒. Female founder.
LinkedIn | 2 months old
Plakar 🇳🇱
Simple, Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup. Former CTO group at Veepee.
Website | LinkedIn | B2B, Open-source, Product & dev tools | 4 months old
🔒 🇫🇷
Former Head of Sales at 🔒 (scaled from €xM to €xxM ARR). Female founder.
LinkedIn | 6 months old
Francesco Maria Fama 🇮🇹
Former COO and GM France at Casavo.
LinkedIn | 2 months old
🔒 🇩🇪
Former Managing Director 🔒 and former COO at 🔒.
LinkedIn | 2 months old
Hugo Porcher 🇫🇷
Former GM France & Belgium at Choco.
LinkedIn | 2 months old
🔒 🇫🇷
Former co-founder & CEO of 🔒.
LinkedIn | 2 months old
Filip Stål 🇸🇪
Worked on the launch of gpt-engineer (Lovable, €7m pre-seed round led by Hummingbird).
LinkedIn | AI | 4 months old
🔒 🇬🇧
Youngest Associate Director at 🔒.
LinkedIn | AI | 3 months old
Philip Andersson 🇸🇪
Former VP of Engineering at Mindler.
LinkedIn | AI | 4 months old
🔒 🇩🇪
Former Founding Engineer at 🔒.
LinkedIn | AI | 3 months old
Mathieu Goebel 🇫🇷
Former VP Sales Asia at Preligens.
LinkedIn | AI | 3 months old
🔒 🇨🇭
Former Director of Product at 🔒 after building and selling them 🔒.
LinkedIn | 3 months old
Bruno Lussato 🇫🇷
Repeat entrepreneur.
LinkedIn | 2 months old
🔒 🇵🇱
Sold his previous company to Polish scale-up 🔒.
LinkedIn | 2 months old
Renske Prins 🇩🇪
Former Head of Product for Sustainability at Celonis. Female founder.
LinkedIn | 2 months old
🔒 🇩🇪
Former co-founder of 🔒.
LinkedIn | 2 months old
Sasha G. 🇬🇧
Former Director of Platform Engineering at Funding Circle UK.
LinkedIn | 2 months old
🔒 🇫🇷
Former Director of Algorithm at 🔒.
LinkedIn | 2 months old
Rahul Goyal 🇬🇧
Repeat entrepreneur and former Director of Product at Citymapper.
LinkedIn | B2C, Health & wellness, AI | 2 months old
🔒 🇩🇪
Former COO at 🔒. Female founder.
LinkedIn | 3 months old
Semilattice 🇬🇧
Semilattice gives you an AI model of your audience which answers questions like they do in seconds. Former Director Global Partnerships at 500-people Kaluza.
Website | LinkedIn | B2B, SaaS, AI, Sales & Marketing, Product & dev tools | 4 months old
🔒 🇫🇷
Develops a 🔒 platform. Former Growth Engineer at 🔒. Female founder.
Website | LinkedIn | B2B, B2B2C, Hardware/Physical product, Medtech, Health & wellness, Deep Tech, AI, Impact | 10 months old
Rahul Chauhan 🇫🇷
Former Head - International Strategic Partnerships & Channel at 500-people Partoo.
LinkedIn | 4 months old
🔒 🇫🇷
Former 🔒 team.
LinkedIn | B2B2C, B2C, SaaS, Proptech & Real Estate, Data and Analytics, Productivity Tools | 4 months old
Robert Hommes 🇳🇱
Former Lead Staff AI/ML Engineer at Tessian.
LinkedIn | AI | 2 months old
🔒 🇩🇰
Former Data & AI Consulting Lead at 🔒. Female founder.
LinkedIn | 3 months old
Alexander Badalyan 🇬🇧
Previous founder of a 100-people company.
LinkedIn | 2 months old
🔒 🇵🇹
Former Managing Partner and CTO at 🔒.
LinkedIn | 2 months old
Valentin De Matos 🇫🇷
Former Lead AI Engineer at Gladia.
LinkedIn | AI | 2 months old
🔒 🇫🇷
Unlocking 🔒. Co-founder among first three hires of 🔒.
LinkedIn | Biotech & science | 5 months old
OnlyChefs 🇫🇷
A premium social network where gourmet fans come to feast!
Website | LinkedIn | B2B2C, B2C, Other transaction-based, Foodtech, Social | 1 month old
🔒 🇬🇧
Bringing the power of 🔒. Graduate team.
Website | Linkedin | B2B, SaaS, Legal, AI, Productivity Tools | 2 months old
Jendi 🇬🇧
The world's most powerful assistant for humans. Antler company.
Website | LinkedIn | B2B2C, B2B, SaaS, Health & wellness, AI | 3 months old
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