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Abdigani Diriye

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Founder at Elevate (formerly Bloom)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

FoundedElevate (formerly Bloom) · YC

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Founder at Elevate (formerly Bloom)YC W22

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

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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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Elevate (formerly Bloom)'s investors · 3

Global Founders CapitalBerlin · $637K – $32M checksLoftyInc CapitalHoustonY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2022

Co-founders at Elevate (formerly Bloom)

KKKhalid Keenan
Khalid KeenanFounder
YOYoucef Oudjidane
Youcef OudjidaneFounder

Experience

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

Skills & more

Information RetrievalText MiningQualitative ResearchAlgorithmsHuman Computer InteractionComputer ScienceHCIProgrammingArtificial IntelligencePythonBig DataParallel Computing
+12 moreNatural 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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