Founders Force

Mateusz Godala is a growth and performance-marketing expert specializing in user acquisition and D2C e-commerce scaling. He built a proven track record driving global consumer expansion at Displate, a prominent Warsaw-founded marketplace for collectible metal wall art. Leveraging his deep expertise in data-driven marketing and high-volume customer acquisition, Godala is currently steering the growth strategy for Outplay, an emerging mobile-gaming hardware venture.

Nicolas Metzke is an expert in building and exiting consumer-facing ventures. Early in his career he was a European marketing manager at Apple, then co-founded and grew Ciao France into a 300-employee company before a profitable 2005 exit, followed by co-founding fashion platform Hypeed, sold to Ykone in 2011. He is now co-founder and CEO of Lili-o.

Dominik Vach is the Co-Founder and CTO of Forloop.ai, specializing in AI-assisted data automation, Python development, and robotic process automation. Grounded in mathematical modeling and finance, he engineered Forloop.ai as a no-code platform that accelerates web scraping and data pipeline creation through AI recommendations and seamless code export. Driven by his technical leadership, the startup successfully secured an $899,000 pre-seed round in 2022 to scale its accessible automation infrastructure.

Karina Karaga is an expert in mental-performance coaching technology for athletes. She is CEO and co-founder of Mindset Design, maker of Vodar, a tennis-focused app combining physical training with psychological-skills exercises. Based in Sofia, Bulgaria, the company has raised early-stage funding from Bulgarian and international angel investors and reports customers using the app across more than a dozen countries.

David Šimák is an expert in AI-driven sales performance analysis. He founded Nonverbia after several years at Mettler Toledo in Switzerland, building an AI sales assistant, Stella, that reads tone, body language, and audience reactions in video sales meetings to flag buying signals and automate CRM follow-up. The company is based in Prague.

Dr. Tim Anstiss is an expert in health-behaviour-change coaching. A physician by training (Southampton University) with a career spanning cardiology, psychiatry, and occupational medicine in the NHS, he now leads Virtual Health Labs, which builds AI-driven coaching chatbots for physical activity, smoking cessation, and chronic disease prevention used by NHS trusts and leisure operators. He teaches on coaching masters' programmes at Henley, UCL, and Cambridge, and helped develop the UK Department of Health's 'Let's Get Moving' physical activity pathway.

Ahmad Karnama is an expert in energy traceability and sustainability. He founded Spritju, a Stockholm-based company providing traceability solutions for renewable-energy investments, and separately founded Aban Foundation, which runs a school-building initiative and its own energy-traceability program.

Xavier Geerinck is an expert in building sovereign AI and data infrastructure for European organizations. He co-founded Scrydon in January 2026, a platform giving European government, defense, and critical-infrastructure clients control over their own AI and data. He previously founded Composabl, an autonomous-AI platform that raised $4.25 million, and earlier worked on cloud and AI strategy for Fortune 500 clients at Microsoft.

Yannick Ishimwe is an early-stage investment expert and the Founder of Ubuntu Angels, a Germany-based network of Black business angels. Specializing in cross-border venture capital and community building, he orchestrates strategic funding for high-potential startups across Europe and Rwanda. By mobilizing underrepresented capital, Ishimwe leverages his expertise in ecosystem development to bridge European resources with emerging tech markets, driving inclusive innovation and startup growth.

Isabelle Albert works in climate action and impact finance in France, with public sources describing affiliations with both a climate fund (Satgana) and a company called Stellya — the two could not be fully reconciled from public information. She has authored writing on green tech and sustainable finance and has held board and advisory roles in climate-focused organizations.