# Zuzanna Stamirowska

> Zuzanna Stamirowska is the co-founder and CEO of Pathway, a Palo Alto-based AI infrastructure company building real-time data pipelines and post-transformer AI architectures. With a PhD in Complexity Science from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and a background in maritime trade forecasting recognized by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, she leads a team that counts NATO, Formula 1, and La Poste among its customers. Pathway's $10M seed round in November 2024 brought total funding to $14.5M, and the company's October 2025 launch of the Dragon Hatchling (BDH) - a brain-inspired, continual-learning architecture - positions it at the frontier of post-transformer AI.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Pathway
- **Organizations:** Pathway, Institute of Complex Systems of Paris
- **Nationality:** Polish
- **Education:** PhD in Complexity Science, University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne, Master's in Economics and Public Policy, Sciences Po / École Polytechnique / ENSAE
- **Known for:** Co-founded Pathway, which serves NATO, Formula 1, La Poste, CMA CGM, and Transdev, Published state-of-the-art models for maritime trade forecasting recognized by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Led $14.5M in total funding including a $10M seed round led by TQ Ventures with Lukasz Kaiser (co-author of Transformers, OpenAI reasoning models) as angel investor

## Career timeline

- **2015-2020** — PhD research at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne; researcher at Institute of Complex Systems of Paris; specialized in forecasting of maritime trade in Economic Geography and Complex Systems
- **2020** — Co-founded Pathway in Paris with Jan Chorowski (CTO) and Adrian Kosowski (CSO)
- **2022** — Pathway raised $4.5M pre-seed round
- **2023** — Spoke at Women's Forum Global Meeting; Pathway launched Python framework for real-time data pipelines and LLM applications
- **2024** — Relocated US operations to Palo Alto; Pathway raised $10M seed round led by TQ Ventures (November); total funding reached $14.5M
- **2025** — Pathway launched Dragon Hatchling (BDH), a post-transformer frontier model architecture enabling continual learning; featured on EU-Startups Podcast Episode 146

## Achievements

- Co-founded Pathway, which serves NATO, Formula 1, La Poste, CMA CGM, and Transdev
- Published state-of-the-art models for maritime trade forecasting recognized by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- Led $14.5M in total funding including a $10M seed round led by TQ Ventures with Lukasz Kaiser (co-author of Transformers, OpenAI reasoning models) as angel investor
- Launched Dragon Hatchling (BDH), a brain-inspired post-transformer architecture addressing continual learning in AI
- Built Pathway's Python framework powered by a Rust Differential Dataflow engine, achieving 90x faster processing for Formula 1
- Helped La Poste achieve 50% reduction in total cost of ownership and 16% CAPEX reduction using Pathway
- Pathway framework connects to 300+ enterprise data sources including Kafka, PostgreSQL, Google Drive, SharePoint

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Featured on EU-Startups Podcast Episode 146 discussing Pathway's vision and growth
- **2025-10** — Pathway launched Dragon Hatchling (BDH), a post-transformer frontier model architecture enabling continual learning, deployed on NVIDIA AI infrastructure and AWS
- **2024-11** — Pathway raised $10M seed round led by TQ Ventures with Lukasz Kaiser as angel investor, bringing total funding to $14.5M

## Links

- Website: https://pathway.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stamirowska
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/zuzanna_pathway
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zuzanna.pathway/

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Last updated: 2026-05-14