{"slug": "emergent-ventures-winners-56th-cohort", "title": "Emergent Ventures winners, 56th cohort", "summary": "Emergent Ventures announced its 56th cohort of winners, including Thomas Haferlach of Berlin to build a payments and compute layer for the long tail of AI apps, and Alex Petropoulos and Max Reddel of Brussels to prepare Europe for transformative AI. The cohort also features Seyi Oluwasanmi of London to bring Brits to San Francisco to learn tech, and Teo Spiro of Israel working on AI and biology.", "body_md": "# Emergent Ventures winners, 56th cohort\n\n[Audrey London](https://substack.com/@lauralondon?utm_campaign=pr), Los Angeles, to write a book on water in California.\n\n[Seyi Oluwasanmi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/seyioluwasanmi/), London, to bring Brits to SF to learn tech.\n\n[Thomas Haferlach](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomashaferlach/), Berlin, payments and compute layer for the long tail of AI apps.\n\n[Juan Ramón Egea Fernández](https://github.com/El-EnderJ), Andalusia, tech.\n\n[Teo Spiro](https://x.com/theodorspiro), Israel, AI and biology.\n\n[Amitav Krishna](https://amitav.net/), suburban Ontario, 14, quantum.\n\n[Jake Prokopets](https://jakeprokopets.substack.com/p/why-the-most-ai-exposed-counties), 18, Orlando, AI and labor markets.\n\n[Wendi Yan](https://wendiyan.com/), NYC, science and the visual arts.\n\nLuke Peoples, 15, Sydney, to edit the UI directly.\n\n[Malwina Lewera](https://www.linkedin.com/in/malwina-lewera-668552337/), Poland, orbital space debris.\n\n[Wilhelm Hedenskog](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilhelm-hedenskog/), 18, Gothenburg, Sweden, AI evaluations.\n\n[Alex Petropoulos](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FAlexTPet&data=05%7C02%7Ctcowen%40gmu.edu%7Cbbe16acaac824a09e21308dedb61858f%7C9e857255df574c47a0c00546460380cb%7C0%7C0%7C639189409084481586%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=1s8N0omRWTJQ9LjqW%2FA0b2%2BOxPFX3P7wVCc7uUf3Kss%3D&reserved=0) and [Max Reddel](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fmaxreddel%2F&data=05%7C02%7Ctcowen%40gmu.edu%7Cbbe16acaac824a09e21308dedb61858f%7C9e857255df574c47a0c00546460380cb%7C0%7C0%7C639189409084547238%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=tGmOTV0Gg44Cj6Im9o1%2FDu9U8a4IOH70qBrpqABOj9g%3D&reserved=0), Brussels, [Preparing Europe for Transformative AI](https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.arq.foundation%2F&data=05%7C02%7Ctcowen%40gmu.edu%7Cbbe16acaac824a09e21308dedb61858f%7C9e857255df574c47a0c00546460380cb%7C0%7C0%7C639189409084597547%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=gDFomTrkC%2Bp7K%2BXkGe4fdWy91tzYy%2FLOFie%2F%2B59Fo%2Fc%3D&reserved=0).\n\n[Giovanni De Lillo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/giovanni-de-lillo/), 17, Naples, multi-agent AI orchestration for regulated enterprise (Hypereum).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-56th-cohort", "canonical_source": "https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/emergent-ventures-winners-56th-cohort.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=emergent-ventures-winners-56th-cohort", "published_at": "2026-07-20 04:33:26+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-20 13:46:54.396053+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-startups", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Emergent Ventures", "Audrey London", "Seyi Oluwasanmi", "Thomas Haferlach", "Teo Spiro", "Jake Prokopets", "Alex Petropoulos", "Giovanni De Lillo"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-56th-cohort", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-56th-cohort.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-56th-cohort.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/emergent-ventures-winners-56th-cohort.jsonld"}}