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Google wanted Bragadeesh to build chips. He turned them down to change how every chip gets built. Today, he launches Tattvam AI with a $1.7M pre-seed. His entire journey has been leading to this moment. At 16, he placed in the top 0.1% of candidates qualifying for the Indian Math Olympiad. Followed by patents in chip design. Then Bragadeesh joined CoMind, the brain monitoring startup that just raised $100M, before becoming one of the earliest engineers at Fractile, the UK's AI chip startup taking on Nvidia. By his mid-twenties, Bragadeesh had a complete picture of the chip industry's stack – and a clear view of where it breaks. Every hyperscaler is pouring billions into custom silicon. The companies that control their own chips control their own destiny. But designing a chip from scratch takes 2-3 years. A single late-stage design error costs $50M and months of delays. The best engineers in the world are still manually navigating thousands of interdependent decisions, one slow iteration at a time. Tattvam AI is building the reasoning engine that eliminates this bottleneck entirely. The iPhone happened because chips got small enough. Cloud happened because chips got cheap enough. AI happened because chips got fast enough. Bragadeesh is asking the next question: what happens when you can design them 100x faster? Very few founders make you feel like the market is simply going to bend around them. Bragadeesh is one of them. Congratulations to the investors who recognised this before the rest of the world did: Seedcamp, Entropy Industrial Capital, Concept Ventures and semiconductor angel Stan Boland. Link in comments. #EWOR #startups #entrepreneurship #AI #DeepTech

Oxford produces some of the sharpest minds in the world. But most of them have never had to make payroll. Or keep the team's morale up when everything's on fire. Petter Made has. He co-founded SumUp and scaled it from nothing to a multi-billion dollar company operating across dozens of markets. What Petter built required a different kind of education entirely, and on March 2, he's bringing it to Oxford. Hosted with OX1 Incubator. Invite-only. Link in comments. #EWOR #startups #entrepreneurship #founderfellowship #founders

Roses are red. Sleep is a myth. Your "quick call" ran 3 hours. And your cofounder just quit. Violets are blue. Your runway is tight. You’ve pitched 47 funds, and got ghosted last night. Your inbox is full of "let's circle back soon". Your product launch crashed on a Friday afternoon. Your metrics look decent. Your traction is real. But every VC wants "Just one more deal." Your board wants a pivot. Your team wants a plan. Your "warm intro" went cold before it began. Some people get chocolates, some people get flowers – but you want unicorn founders in your corner for hours. Not mentors who vanish. Not advice from a slide. But people who've scaled it and stay by your side. €500K. Weekly calls. No cohorts. No fluff. For the 0.1% who know that Valentine's isn't enough. We’re not your Valentine. But we will text you back at 2am. #EWOR #startups #entrepreneurship #founders #fellowship

At 19, matthias was breakdancing in LA. Years in creative work – dance, film, photography – taught him what creators actually need. It's not what the industry is building. Today, he launches EditWithAva to make real videos as easy to edit as fake ones. Yes, you read that correctly. While billions pour into generating synthetic footage from nothing, Matthias is betting the opposite: real video is what matters, and it's still impossibly hard to edit. He would know. Documenting his startup journey on YouTube, he spent every weekend for 6 months manually editing videos. That's when he saw just how broken the tools are. Not the creative part, rather the tedious, manual labor that nobody enjoys. That's the difference. Generative AI replaces human creativity. Avlana removes the grunt work so creators can focus on what actually matters: the story. Tell Ava what to create. She handles the rest: footage analysis, storyboarding, voiceovers, assembly, captions, editing out retakes and pauses. A great example of AI that supports creators, not replaces them. Check out their Product Hunt link in comments. #EWOR #startups #entrepreneurship #AI #fellowship

Whenever Sundar wasn't serving up aces on the professional tennis circuit, he was serving up hits on Spotify. Today, he announces Mozart AI has raised $6M led by Balderton to bring music production into the AI age. At 12, Sundar ranked top 3 in India for tennis. Then injuries forced a pivot. By 14, he signed with Spinnin' Records (Warner) and hit 2M Spotify streams. Still the creative process of producing music frustrated him. Legacy music software – unchanged since the 1990s – created bottlenecks that killed momentum. For him it was the same as for everyone else: 85% of songs never got finished. So he built the tool he wished existed. But not before proving he could execute – scaling a delivery startup to £1.3M ARR in 10 months with his co-founder Arjun. This was a great warm-up. Yet their passion was still making music. They used that same playbook to build Mozart AI. 100,000+ artists signed up in 2 months. Producers for A$AP Rocky, Avicii, and Kodak Black are already using it. Tracks made on the platform are hitting 10M+ Spotify streams. Mozart AI doesn't replace creativity; instead, it puts artists at the centre of AI-powered music making. From pro athlete to pro producer to founder. The thread connecting all three: obsessive iteration until something works. Read more in Forbes below. Link in comments. Congrats to Mercuri, Kevin Hartz (Eventbrite founder), Charles Ferguson (Oscar-winning director) and DVC who get to invest in this cracked team. #EWOR #startups #entrepreneurship #AI #music

Want to build a unicorn or decacorn? It might be a good idea to take advice from the few who actually did. Petter scaled SumUp from zero to a global fintech powerhouse. The early decisions that compounded into billions weren't the ones investors expected. Come February 25 in Paris, Petter will sit down with 40 of France’s most cracked builders at STATION F. Off the record, no bullshit. He’ll share the mistakes he'd never repeat, the bets that paid off, and what actually matters in year one when you're trying to build something massive. Open Q&A after. Ask him what you're too afraid to ask other founders. Hosted with Pioneers. Invite-only. Link in comments. #EWOR #startups #entrepreneurship #founders #fellowship

A resource conflict erased Thiri's entire community in Myanmar. No media coverage. No documentation. The only witnesses: Satellites. That's when something clicked – and never unclicked. If there's no evidence, there's no accountability. So she taught herself satellite imagery and machine learning. Not as a career move. As a way to find the truth. Her work became evidence in actual legal proceedings against those responsible. She left Harvard. Turned down a professorship in Dublin. Why? She kept seeing the same pattern: the biggest decisions get made where the facts are unclear, the systems are messy, and the stakes are enormous. Now, Thiri just announced Nyxium's £2.4M pre-seed round for building the intelligence layer for the physical world. The problem: the world is about to build more data centres, power plants, and grid infrastructure than it ever has. And projects don't fail because of technology. They fail because of land, permitting, grid constraints, and compliance – stalling 12 to 24 months in regulatory queues, burning up to $5M in unnecessary costs. Her co-founder Paul watched this happen for years in nuclear modelling. Promising projects dying not from bad science, but from bad site selection. Nyxium's AI agents handle geospatial analysis, regulatory compliance, grid constraints, and community engagement simultaneously – cutting timelines by up to 75%. They've already signed a $235k contract with Kentucky's Nuclear Energy Development Authority and are in conversations with 50+ organisations. Most experts think the bottleneck is technology or capital. Thiri and Paul think it's the deployment system itself – the messy, fragmented workflow between "we need this built" and it actually getting built. Nyxium exists to fix that. Congrats to Visionaries Tomorrow for backing these two EWOR fellows early.

[ boot_sequence:init ] 0x01 - no rogue AI, no self-awareness, no malice. 0x02 - just ordinary optimization. 0x03 - distort reality --> maximize outcomes (every ad agency knows; Moloch approves). --> I’m joining EWOR as an Ideation Fellow. EWOR != most programs. They don’t optimize for consensus or comfort. They select founders on a different objective function. The agentic workforce is no longer a question of *if*. It’s a question of *velocity*. As AI agents graduate from copilots to operators to decision-makers, the bottleneck isn’t intelligence. It’s { trust | security | control }. During the fellowship, I’m building with Srijan: [ a security foundation for agentic systems ] designed *before* they scale, so companies don’t end up as the first “agentic AI security incident” postmortem. History has been leaking spoilers for a while. In 1996, DARPA ran an exercise simulating a world of autonomous agents: digital commerce, cyber conflict, infrastructure decisions long before the tech was real. We’re building the guardrails *before* the highway fills with traffic. Because once agents leave the screen and enter the physical world, security stops being a feature and becomes a survival constraint. Huge thanks to Simon (Bobby) Dussart, Quinten Selhorst, Paul H. Müller, Tolu Fayanju, Gülce Horataci, Philipp Scholz and the entire EWOR team for the early signal and the chance to execute. PS // We’re looking for a cybersec profile to join us as we prepare pilots. Must-have --> - Experience in agent-based systems, infra security, or adversarial ML. - Hands-on with real systems (not slideware :) ). - Comfortable operating pre-product. No CV required. Proof of precedent work > credentials. This isn’t a job, it’s a seat at the founding table. My DMs are open... #EWOR #AI #Trust #Startups #HumanCenteredAI #Entrepreneurship

The work Alain is doing today is the third generation of a family tradition of embracing new technologies. Alain's grandfather was a medical doctor, but became known for his award-winning photography. His father carried the craft forward with Super 8 films. Alain spent days in the studio as a kid, cutting and gluing film by hand. That “make something from nothing” instinct showed up in other ways, too. At 17, he convinced 10 people to trust him with their money for day trading. 10x’d it on the way up, then watched it fall and learned what risk really means on the way down. By 24, he'd spotted an underdeveloped business unit at Merck & Co. and beat the forecast by 3x. €20M more than expected. In 2011, most people saw the iPad as "an iPhone with a bigger screen." Alain saw an enterprise interface that could change how business gets done face-to-face. That became Pitcher, his startup which he bootstrapped to an 8-figure exit in 2022, right after the Nasdaq dropped 50%. Then he went into AI. Maybe too early. In 2023, he was building AI agents before the market even had language for them. One insight kept surfacing: brands wanted known faces in their AI campaigns. But there was no easy way to license them. Today, that's Twinity. Alain’s tech makes talent licensing scalable like software, so brands can move at the speed of AI. Third generation of making something from nothing. Just a different medium. Watch Alain tell his story below. #EWOR #AI #startups #entrepreneurship #fellowship

A founder's obsession will always matter more to us than their incorporation location. A major US accelerator has quietly rolled out a new requirement: it won’t fund Canadian-incorporated startups unless they reincorporate in the US, Singapore, or the Cayman Islands before applying. According to their data, Canadian-founded startups that reincorporated in the US hit roughly 2x the valuation. We all know that Delaware corporate law is efficient, American investors move faster, and for plenty of founders, US incorporation is the right call. But "often makes sense" is not the same as "mandatory condition." It’s  easy to confuse causation with correlation. When incorporation becomes a gatekeeper, the frame shifts from founder-centric to investor-centric — optimizing for structure before understanding the founder, the product, or the market. The cost to founders is real: every hour spent on paperwork is an hour not spent with customers or shipping what actually moves the business forward. At EWOR, we look at who the founder is and what they're obsessed with shipping. We know that great founders can achieve anything anywhere - and we’re looking for the best globally, from Moldova to Senegal  to San Francisco. Incorporation is a strategic choice, shaped by customers, capital path, and where the company needs to win. We advise. We don't mandate. For example, Kyle is a Canadian fintech serial founder and EWOR Fellow. We didn’t ask him to flip his company to be accepted. Instead, he put that energy where it belongs: shipping Neobanc ($4M ARR) to support millions on the path to homeownership. We're running 2 SF residencies this year because US presence genuinely helps some founders. The difference: it's an opportunity, not a prerequisite. Build in Berlin, raise in Singapore, hire in Nairobi. Incorporate where it makes sense for your company. EWOR remains borderless because the best founders are. #EWOR #startups #investments #entrepreneurship #founderfellowship