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August 16, 2024

The DeepMind founder factory: Meet 13 employees-turned-founders

Almost all of DeepMind's founder alumni have — unsurprisingly — launched startups in the AI space

DeepMind is a wise old sage compared to Europe’s current fresh-faced AI tech darlings like Mistral, Aleph Alpha and H.

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Phare Health founding team, Martin Seneviratne and Lee Kupferman left and centre
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz

Kai Nicol-Schwarz was a senior reporter at Sifted. He covered AI and UK tech.

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