Rising founders: PhD crop scientists, YC alums, and technical leads

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People

• Ahan Dalal (Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany)

  • PhD crop scientist turned agri-tech founder of SymbioVerse, focused on regenerative agriculture and carbon drawdown. Currently entrepreneur in residence at Makers Home and previously worked with Carbon13.

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• Celian Baudet (Montpellier, France)

  • Co-founder & CEO of Appairium, a platform that matches business needs with ideal SaaS solutions. Also runs SaaS Wise and works as an SEO/Growth consultant at Bulldozer.

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• Ervin Bosenbacher (Colchester, United Kingdom)

  • Senior Perl Developer turned Technical Lead, now founder/CEO of rvnLLM, building high-performance LLM infrastructure in Rust with a focus on open source and local-first inference tools.

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• Hannah Craighead (London, United Kingdom)

  • London-based professional with no publicly available work experience or current role information.

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• Konstantin Miller

  • Researcher and data science expert now building Linqado to help connect people to jobs.

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• Mathilde Dujon (Paris, France)

  • Head of Product at Regate, having grown with the company from first product hire to CPO over 4+ years before the company was acquired by Qonto.

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• Musa Chanakira (United Kingdom)

  • Engineering leader who founded Graftd and served as Head of Engineering at TALNT while also working as Technical Lead at Sheffield Haworth. Focuses on AI, cloud technologies, and building scalable SaaS and B2B platforms.

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• Nahid Zokaei (Constance, Germany)

  • University of Oxford lecturer turned Chief Science Officer at Brain+. Previously served as Clinical Director at the same company.

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• Sebastian Weisshaar

  • Jina AI intern turned YC founder, now building TenderRender to write bids with AI.

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• Steve Basher (United Kingdom)

  • Software engineer who worked his way up to team lead at Palantir over 7 years, including roles as a forward deployed engineer and enterprise technical lead. Now building something new.

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