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Blaz Fortuna

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Technical Founder & Co-CEO at Nordoon

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

FoundedNordoon

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About

Blaz Fortuna is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Nordoon. He previously worked at Bloomberg and has over 15 years of experience developing and implementing machine learning techniques in production environments. His background includes affiliations with the Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) and Stanford.

Technical Founder & Co-CEO at Nordoon

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Nordoon's investors · 2

Interactive Venture Partners LlcGreenwichSilicon Gardens$330K – $1.6M checks

Co-founders at Nordoon

SWStefan Walter
Stefan Walter
PRPhilipp Reupold
Philipp Reupold
PTPablo Trento
Pablo Trento
TSTomaz Suklje
Tomaz SukljeBusiness Founder & Co-CEO

Experience

  1. NordoonCo-Founder and Co-CEOcurrent2023 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
  2. Jozef Stefan InstituteResearch Fellow2017 — 2024Slovenia
  3. Jozef Stefan InstitutePostdoctoral Fellow2012 — 2017Ljubljana, Slovenia
  4. Jozef Stefan InstituteResearch Assistant2006 — 2011Ljubljana, Slovenia
  5. Jozef Stefan InstituteStudent Researcher2003 — 2006Ljubljana, Slovenia
  6. QlectorCEO and Co-founder2018 — 2023Slovenia
  7. Bloomberg LPResearch Consultant2015 — 2019Slovenia
  8. Event RegistryData Scientist2017 — 2018Slovenia
  9. Stanford UniversityMarie Curie Fellow2017 — 2018United States
  10. QuintelligenceResearch Engineer2010 — 2017Slovenia
  11. Ghent UniversityPostdoctoral Fellow2014 — 2015Ghent Area, Belgium
  12. Cycorp EuropeResearcher2008 — 2011Slovenia
  13. BloombergResearch Intern2010Greater New York City Area
  14. Microsoft Research CambridgeResearch Intern2006 — 2007Cambridge, United Kingdom
  15. Southampton UniversityResearch Intern2004Southampton

Skills & more

Information Security2Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningLeadership1Product ManagementDeep LearningInformation Retrieval42Text Mining58Software Development5Agile MethodologiesData Mining55PyTorch
+12 moreNatural Language ProcessingSoftware EngineeringWeb MiningProgrammingSemantic WebComputer ScienceAlgorithmsInformation ExtractionPattern RecognitionComputational LinguisticsLaTeXC++

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Blaz Fortuna?
Blaz Fortuna is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Nordoon. He previously worked at Bloomberg and has over 15 years of experience developing and implementing machine learning techniques in production environments. His background includes affiliations with the Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) and Stanford.
Where does Blaz Fortuna work?
Blaz Fortuna is Technical Founder & Co-CEO of Nordoon.
What companies did Blaz Fortuna found?
Blaz Fortuna founded Nordoon.
Where did Blaz Fortuna go to school?
Blaz Fortuna studied at Mednarodna podiplomska šola Jožefa Stefana (PhD, Artificial Intelligence); IEDC - Bled School of Management (Young Managers Program); University of Ljubljana (Bachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Mathematics).

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