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FounderNest
FounderNest is an AI-native market intelligence platform that helps innovation teams at large corporations, CVCs, R&D, M&A and strategy groups discover, evaluate and track emerging startups, technologies and trends. Its AI Market Intelligence Analyst (AMIA) scans 50M+ companies, 160M+ patents and billions of data points to surface opportunities faster than traditional research.
Felix Herranz
Felix González Herranz is the Co-Founder and CEO of FounderNest, an AI-powered market intelligence platform serving Fortune 500 companies with tools for innovation scouting, competitive analysis, and M&A research. A Fulbright Scholar and Stanford GSB Arjay Miller Scholar, Felix built FounderNest from a problem he lived firsthand - helping companies find signal in a sea of 54 million company profiles. Before FounderNest, he worked at the Inter-American Development Bank across 20+ countries, consulted at The World Bank, and co-founded JuntoSalimos during Spain's 2009 economic crisis to support Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs. His clients include L'Oréal, Roche, Telefónica, AstraZeneca, and Novo Nordisk.