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Axel Lingbert Is Trading Hotel Software for a Seat in the Lobby
A ski-hotel shift taught Axel Lingbert that hospitality improves when staff can leave the screen. Now the Zaplar co-founder is trying to redesign the software that keeps them stuck there.
Oskar Block Is Teaching AI to Read the Fine Print
The Swedish founder began with sports-betting models, learned enterprise AI at McKinsey, and found his next company over dinner with a patent attorney. Now Stilta is trying to turn weeks of high-stakes patent research into evidence a lawyer can inspect.
Alexander Högman
After years inside marketing departments, Alexander Högman turned the spreadsheet sprawl he knew firsthand into Camphouse. His long game is less about replacing judgment with AI than giving global media teams one trustworthy place to use it.
Philip Odelfelt
He walked away from hedge fund money to help old-line manufacturers see what is really happening on the shelf. Now Philip Odelfelt is turning messy retail data into a $27 million bet on the building materials industry.
Johan Brissmyr
Johan Brissmyr is the CEO and co-founder of Castle, a security company that helps online businesses detect fraud, bots, and account takeover in real time. A computer scientist from Lund University, he started building web products in Malmo, Sweden before moving to Silicon Valley through Y Combinator and relocating the company to New York. Castle grew out of a password-storage side project that revealed a bigger opportunity in behavioral risk scoring, and today combines device fingerprinting, behavioral signals, and analytics into APIs used by companies of many sizes.