(0133) CERN physicist → robotics, Tesla engineer → femtech, early stage startups

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Early Stage Founders

• Sam Pasupalak (New York)

  • Former CEO of Maluuba, an AI company acquired by Microsoft. After a stint as Entrepreneur in Residence at Inovia Capital, now co-founder and CEO of Skyfall AI, building enterprise superintelligence.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Thais Castello Branco (San Francisco)

  • Previously Head of Marketing & Strategy at Exa, building AI search technology. Now working in stealth for two months.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Asma Basly (Tunisia)

  • Machine learning engineer with experience at CERN and MLOps background, now co-founder of OORB building an agentic platform to spin off robotics prototyping on the cloud.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn