Where does Abdigani Diriye work?

Abdigani Diriye is Founder of Elevate (formerly Bloom).

What companies did Abdigani Diriye found?

Abdigani Diriye founded Elevate (formerly Bloom).

Where did Abdigani Diriye go to school?

Abdigani Diriye studied at Y Combinator (Entrepreneurship (W22 Cohort)); INSEAD (Executive MBA); UCL (PhD, Computer Science).

Abdigani Diriye

Founder

Founder at Elevate (formerly Bloom)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

FoundedElevate (formerly Bloom) · YC

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1,787 people in our graph share verified history with Abdigani — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Javier SolterounlockedAbdigani: together at Carnegie Mellon University (2012–2013)

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×7Abdigani: together at Y Combinator

Abdigani: together at UCL

Founder at Elevate (formerly Bloom)YC W22

Intro paths

Abdigani went through Y Combinator (Winter 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Elevate (formerly Bloom)'s batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Abdigani can intro founders to Elevate (formerly Bloom)'s investors below.

Elevate (formerly Bloom)'s investors · 2

LoftyInc CapitalHouston Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2022

Co-founders at Elevate (formerly Bloom)

Khalid KeenanFounder

Youcef OudjidaneFounder

Experience

OdolaCo-Founder & Board Membercurrent2024 — present
Lateral Frontiers VCVenture Partnercurrent2024 — present
Queen Elizabeth Prize for EngineeringAdvisory Committee Membercurrent2021 — present
World Economic ForumYoung Global Leadercurrent2023 — present
TED ConferencesTED Fellowcurrent2017 — present
Elevate (YC W22)Co-Founder & Board Member2021 — 2023London, England, United Kingdom
AmazonResearch Manager2019 — 2021Cambridge, United Kingdom
World Economic ForumMember, Global Future Council on Innovation Ecosystems2018 — 2019
IBMResearch Manager2016 — 2019
IBM ResearchResearch Scientist2013 — 2015Zürich Area, Switzerland & Nairobi, Kenya
Carnegie Mellon UniversityPost-Doctoral Researcher2012 — 2013Greater Pittsburgh Area
MicrosoftMachine Learning Research & Development2011 — 2012Redmond, Washington
MicrosoftMachine Learning Research & Development2010Redmond, Washington

Skills & more

Information RetrievalText MiningQualitative ResearchAlgorithmsHuman Computer InteractionComputer ScienceHCIProgrammingArtificial IntelligencePythonBig DataParallel Computing

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Natural Language ProcessingImage ProcessingStatisticsComputer VisionText ClassificationResearchLaTeXInformation ExtractionRecommender SystemsDistributed SystemsMachine LearningPattern Recognition

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Who is Abdigani Diriye?: Founder at Elevate (formerly Bloom)
Where does Abdigani Diriye work?: Abdigani Diriye is Founder of Elevate (formerly Bloom).
What companies did Abdigani Diriye found?: Abdigani Diriye founded Elevate (formerly Bloom).
Where did Abdigani Diriye go to school?: Abdigani Diriye studied at Y Combinator (Entrepreneurship (W22 Cohort)); INSEAD (Executive MBA); UCL (PhD, Computer Science).

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INSEAD mafia269

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UCL mafia251

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King's College London mafia114

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Same school

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Ryan SheaCo-founder of Blockstack (Stacks)Suhail DoshiFounder of Mixpanel; founder of Particle Arhaan A.Deeptech Fellow at Clear Ventures Akshat GoenkaInvestor at Moonfire Ventures Jon XuGeneral Partner at Y Combinator Chris GoldaGeneral Partner at Y Combinator

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Shared employers

Also worked at Amazon939

Apoorva MehtaFounder of Instacart; founder of Cloud Health Systems Binny BansalCo-founder of Flipkart; co-founder of PhonePe and OppDoor Brad PorterFounder & CEO of Collaborative Robotics Jane MooneyCo-founder & VP, Strategy and Finance at Collaborative Robotics Nick FrosstCo-founder of Cohere Viswa SankaranarayananVenture Partner at Monta Vista Capital

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Also worked at Carnegie Mellon University239

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Also worked at Microsoft1,852

Reid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at Greylock Garry TanPresident & CEO of Y Combinator Nat FriedmanCo-lead of Meta Superintelligence Labs; co-founder of NFDG Kai-Fu LeeChairman of Sinovation Ventures and CEO of 01.AI Bill GatesCo-founder of Microsoft; Chair of the Gates Foundation Mike KriegerCo-founder of Instagram; Chief Product Officer at Anthropic

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