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Helsing, a German defense-tech sometimes referred to as Europe's Anduril, is in talks to raise ~$1.2B at an $18B valuation. Dragoneer and Lightspeed leading. Builds AI for autonomous defense systems including the HX-2 strike drone.

  1. Rafael Licursi, PhD in Paris (Co-Founder & CEO @ Stronghold AI)

    1. Role: Sr Signals Intelligence Researcher @ Helsing (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Military Pilot & EW Officer @ Brazilian Air Force, Institut Polytechnique de Paris PhD EE

    3. Description: "Stronghold AI is a pan-European company providing scalable sensing for the most contested environments”

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  2. Jonathan A. in London (Co-Founder & COO @ Stronghold AI)

    1. Role: Sr PM / TPM @ Helsing (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: PM @ Google, Co-Founder @ Leapbox Media

    3. Description: “Stronghold AI is a pan-European company providing scalable sensing for the most contested environments”

  3. Conrad Edwards in UK (Stealth)

    1. Role: Deployed AI Engineer @ Helsing (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Technical Lead & FDE @ Palantir, Stanford BS CS (Honors)

    3. Description: Founder stealth since 8/25

  4. Cedric Archambeau in Germany (Stealth)

    1. Role: Director of AI @ Helsing (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Chief Scientist Amazon SageMaker & Principal Applied Scientist @ Amazon/AWS, Louvain PhD Applied Sciences

    3. Description: Stealth since 1/26

  5. Keesiu Wong in Munich (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: PM @ Helsing (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Design AI (acquired by Helsing)

    3. Description: Left Helsing 2025

  6. Ben Dupont in Paris (Co-Founder & CEO @ Kotcha)

    1. Role: PM @ Helsing (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: VP Product @ BlaBlaCar, TPM @ Airbus, Stanford MS Aero

    3. Description: “Be part of Kipchoge’s digital training camp: the AI-powered coaching app that trains you like the best.”

  7. Florian Hendrich in Munich (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Director AI @ Helsing (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CTO @ HELLSICHT

    3. Description: Left Helsing 2025

  8. Khalil Mair in London (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Product @ Helsing (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Principal @ Generation Investment Management, Consultant @ McKinsey, Oxford BA PPE

    3. Description: "Exploring"

Moonshot AI, a three-year-old Beijing startup behind the Kimi LLM, raised $2B at a $20B valuation led by Long-Z Investment. Total raised $3.9B in the past six months.

  1. Jade D. in Pittsburgh (Co-Founder @ Ahaa)

    1. Role: Product Lead Kimi App @ Moonshot AI (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Sr PM @ Meituan, Sr PM Search @ WeChat/Tencent

    3. Description: "Web-app that lets designers search UI patterns and turn them into production-ready sites with AI"

  2. Peizhong (Chill) Gao in Redmond (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: ML Engineer & PM @ Moonshot AI (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder @ OZ Intelligence (MiraclePlus/YC China backed), Tsinghua & UW MS

    3. Description: University of Washington MS class of ‘27

  3. Hansen Wang in Boston (Co-Founder @ Treasurescape)

    1. Role: AI Product Intern @ Moonshot AI (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: AI PM @ Baidu, Brown ScM Data Science

    3. Description: Stealth since 3/26

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