Founders Force

Carefully curated group of accomplished founders, innovators, and investors who share our passion and drive to support ambitious European tech startups.

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Stefan Larsson-Mastonstråle
Sweden
Stefan
Stefan Larsson-Mastonstråle is an expert in renewable-energy hardware, particularly combined solar heat-and-power systems. He founded Maston AB, a Swedish company developing Sunthetics, a solar technology aiming for far higher efficiency than conventional panels via combined heat capture and energy storage, alongside Stirling-engine and gas-turbine designs. He holds multiple granted patents in this space and has academic ties to KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Larsson-Mastonstråle
Maston AB
Cyber Sec & Dual-Use
Anne Mette Frejsel
Denmark
Anne
Anne Mette Frejsel is an expert in scaling growth-stage B2B companies. She holds a PhD in astrophysics from the Niels Bohr Institute and Stanford University, worked as a scientist with the European Space Agency, and later held senior strategy roles at Maersk and TDC NET before serving as COO of Rockstart, an Amsterdam-based accelerator and VC. She now runs Ad Astra Consult, advising growth-stage companies and VC/PE portfolios from Copenhagen.
Mette Frejsel
Ad Astra Consult
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Adam Salfický
Czech Republic
Adam
Adam Salfický works on building the AI and innovation ecosystem around Pardubice, Czech Republic, including speaking and organizing roles with the P-PINK business incubator and its AI programming.
Salfický
Ascera
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Jiri Mocicka
United Kingdom
Jiri
Jiří Močička is an expert in scaling product-design organizations. He founded GIVE, a design-leadership consultancy built around his own 'Design at Scale' methodology, drawing on prior experience in experience design at Lloyds Banking Group and NatWest Markets, and has mentored designers extensively through platforms like ADPList.
Mocicka
GIVE™
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Tomáš Mála
Czech Republic
Tomáš
Tomáš Mála is an AI infrastructure entrepreneur and the Founder of Coranor, a trusted batch AI compute platform. Specializing in distributed computing and GPU optimization, he engineered a system that efficiently routes complex AI workloads to verified, underutilized hardware. Leveraging his expertise in secure resource allocation, Mála focuses on building cost-effective, scalable infrastructure to meet the high computational demands of modern AI processing.
Mála
Coranor
AI & Robotics
Jonathan Georg
Germany
Jonathan
Jonathan Georg is a venture capital and D2C scaling expert, currently serving as Head of Family Office at Syntropy. Operating out of the Frankfurt-based investment platform founded by the team behind Emma – The Sleep Company, he specializes in hyper-growth unit economics, asset-light architecture, and AI-native operations. Leveraging the battle-tested playbook used to build global category leaders, Georg orchestrates strategic seed investments and deep operational support for early-stage consumer brands and frontier-tech ventures disrupting everyday mass markets.
Georg
Syntropy Family Office
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Jan Pleskac
Czech Republic
Jan
Jan Pleskáč is an expert in secure hardware design and the Co-Founder, CTO, and former CEO of Tropic Square, a SatoshiLabs company. Specializing in transparent, high-security infrastructure, he spearheaded the development of TROPIC01, a pioneering open-architecture secure element and hardware root of trust. Driven by his technical leadership in verifiable silicon, this flagship chip won the prestigious Embedded World Award for Safety and Security in 2025.
Pleskac
Tropic Square, Intel
Cyber Sec & Dual-Use
Adam Husar
United States
Adam
Adam Husár is a computational researcher at genomics company Illumina, with peer-reviewed publications on Monte Carlo simulation of biological reaction-diffusion systems (PLOS Computational Biology, 2024) and neuronal mitochondria morphology (Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2021).
Husar
Illumina
Medtech & Healthtech