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Renate Nyborg
Renate Nyborg is the founder and CEO of Meeno, a generative-AI app teaching people - mostly young men - how to build real relationships, which she frames as a fight against loneliness she rates 'on par with climate change.' She was the first woman to run Tinder and previously led Apple's App Store subscriptions in Europe and built Headspace's first international product and marketing org. Half Norwegian, half Dutch, raised across four countries and fluent in five languages, she studied philosophy at Cambridge in her third language. Meeno has raised about $5 million from Sequoia, Andrew Ng's AI Fund and NEA, and has pivoted from text advice toward voice-based practice scenarios it calls the 'Duolingo of dating.'
Sean Williams
Sean Williams is the British founder and CEO of AutogenAI, a generative-AI platform that drafts winning bids and proposals up to eight times faster than humans. A Cambridge philosophy graduate who studied logic and feminist philosophy, he spent a decade designing large-scale public employment programs before building and selling the training company Corndel for a reported 47 million pounds. He launched AutogenAI in late 2021, shipped its first product in September 2022, and raised more than 60 million dollars across Series A and B rounds backed by Salesforce Ventures, Spark Capital and Blossom Capital. Off the clock he is a serious open-level backgammon player and a collector of rare guitars.
Robert Smithson
Robert Smithson is the founder and CEO of Just (just.insure), a Los Angeles pay-per-mile auto insurer that prices drivers on how they actually drive instead of credit scores and zip codes. A Cambridge philosophy graduate and former fund manager, he previously built Genius Sports (sold for $280M in 2018) and the Python platform PythonAnywhere before turning telematics and AI loose on the $300-billion car-insurance market - aiming squarely at making coverage fairer for lower-income drivers.