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Zlatko Jončev
Zlatko Jončev is the co-founder and CEO of b-12 (b12 Labs), a Y Combinator S25 startup building AI agents that plan and run chemical synthesis for pharma and biotech. A former national chemistry olympiad champion turned organic chemist, he earned a PhD in Basel, trained as a medicinal chemist at Roche, and did his postdoc in EPFL's Lab of Artificial Chemical Intelligence, where he met co-founder Andres Bran. b-12 aims to shrink early-stage drug discovery from years to months by making molecules that are otherwise hard to make.
Adrian Cabrera de Luis
Adrian Cabrera de Luis is the co-founder and CEO of Maestro Labs, the company behind MailMaestro, TeamsMaestro and CalMaestro - a suite of AI assistants that draft, summarize and triage email and meetings inside Outlook and Gmail. A Swiss-trained microengineer turned BCG consultant turned MIT Sloan MBA, he built and sold the Facebook-community rental startup Alpaca before turning to email. In January 2025 his team acquired Helsinki's Flowrite to become one of the largest independent AI email assistants on the market, serving tens of thousands of teams across 150+ countries.
Elio Assaf
Elio Assaf is the Lebanese co-founder and CEO of Optiverse AG, a Zurich-based AI startup building a meeting assistant that turns everyday conversations into structured, operational intelligence - automating notes, summaries, transcriptions and CRM updates. A computer-vision and machine-learning researcher who worked across ETH Zurich, MIT and EPFL and previously engineered AI at Thales, he incorporated Optiverse in June 2024, won a CHF 150,000 Venture Kick award, and grew the platform to serve over 1,000 businesses worldwide while users report saving an average of 6.8 hours a week.