Meet the 20 Endeavor Entrepreneurs Selected in May

This month, Endeavor selected 20 entrepreneurs leading 14 companies during our May 2026 International Selection Panels (ISP).

Each ISP is the culmination of a rigorous, multi-step selection process to identify high-impact entrepreneurs from all over the world. We seek founders with the greatest growth potential and those who commit to reinvesting time and resources into their local entrepreneurial ecosystems. By doing so, they help build the next generation of entrepreneurs, sparking a Multiplier Effect™. During the ISP, our panelists interviewed entrepreneurs about their businesses and evaluated their potential for high-impact growth. The panelists then discuss the candidates and vote on whether to select them to become Endeavor Entrepreneurs.

Panelists

Thank you to our outstanding group of panelists:

Edgar Bronfman Jr., Waverley Capital (Endeavor Global Board Chair); Hooi Ling Tan, Grab (Endeavor Global Board Member); Shu Nyatta, Bicycle Capital (Endeavor Global Board Member); Amr Shady, Accord Partners (Endeavor Entrepreneur, Endeavor Egypt Board Member); Anton Waschuk, Ukraine-Moldova American Enterprise Fund (Endeavor Ukraine Board Member); Cesar Carvalho, Wellhub (Endeavor Entrepreneur, Endeavor Brazil Board Member); Dan Caruso, Caruso Ventures (Endeavor Colorado Board Chair); Melvyn Lubega, Go1 (Endeavor Entrepreneur, Endeavor South Africa Board Member); Mohamad Khachab, BMB Group (Endeavor Entrepreneur, Endeavor UAE Board Member); Yousef Shamoun, ZenHR (Endeavor Entrepreneur, Endeavor Jordan Board Member); Adalberto Flores, Kueski (Endeavor Entrepreneur); Ahmed Hamdan, Unifonic (Endeavor Entrepreneur); Ahmet Bahadir Ozdemir, Airalo (Endeavor Entrepreneur); Gastón Irigoyen, Pomelo (Endeavor Entrepreneur); Giorgio Tinacci, Casavo (Endeavor Entrepreneur); Julian Torres, OnTop (Endeavor Entrepreneur); Lucy Hoffman, Carry1st (Endeavor Entrepreneur); Markus Bihler, Bihler Investments (Endeavor Entrepreneur); Michael Heyink, Yellow (Endeavor Entrepreneur); Miguel Santo Amaro, Coverflex (Endeavor Entrepreneur); Victor Noguera, Clau (Endeavor Entrepreneur); Allison Light, Lightweight; Danielle Du Toit, Humanify; Matt Tucker, American Express Global Dining; Michele Levy, HeadOffice.ai; Shari Loessberg, MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Learn more about the entrepreneurs and the innovative companies they are building.

Amphora Logistics

Entrepreneur: Joaquim Sant, Joan Tresserras, Adriá Cortes
Endeavor Office: Spain

What they do: Founded in 2020 in Barcelona, Amphora operates a B2B logistics platform that connects small and mid-sized e-commerce companies to storage, carriers, and sales channels, reducing logistics costs by up to 30%. It also offers a standalone warehouse management system (Atenea) for customers who prefer to manage their inventory in-house. This product cuts warehouse operating costs by up to 50% with its analytics layer and warehouse app. The company owns and operates two warehouses in Spain and Italy, its core markets, and processed 5.5 million shipments in 2025.

Who they are: Amphora was founded in 2020 by Adrià (CEO), Joan (COO), and Joaquim (CTO/CIO). Adrià began his career in management consulting at Accenture and held sales roles at HP and Johnson & Johnson before founding a prior venture in Brazil; he now leads overall company strategy and growth. Joan spent nearly six years in M&A advisory at AZ Capital, a Spanish boutique firm, before co-founding Amphora, where he oversees operations and finance. Joaquim, a civil and computer engineer, served as CTO at last-mile delivery startup KIWi before co-founding Amphora, where he leads product and technology.

Arena AI

Entrepreneur: Anastasios Angelopoulos
Endeavor Office: Greece

What they do: Started in 2023 as a side project, Arena’s 10 million monthly active users generate continuous, human-preference rankings for frontier models, quickly becoming the de facto standard for the industry. Through the company’s Battle Mode platform, users compare the anonymized results of two different AI models, with model identities only revealed after the user has voted. The company has a customer base anchored in AI labs using Arena for both pre-release testing and post-release performance monitoring.

Who they are: Anastasios started Arena as a side project while getting his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley alongside Wei-Lin Chiang (a fellow PhD student), and Professor Ion Stoica. At UC Berkeley, Anastasios focused primarily on the mathematical and theoretical statistical foundations of AI and in 2024, he won the Leon O. Chua award for outstanding achievement in an area of nonlinear science.

CloudWalk

Entrepreneur: Luis Silva
Endeavor Office: Brazil

What they do: Founded in 2013, CloudWalk builds financial tools for the small entrepreneurs who have historically been underserved. In Brazil, InfinitePay is an all-in-one financial app where merchants can accept card payments, settle in seconds, borrow against future sales, and run a free business account. In the United States, JIM.com brings the same model to the country’s tens of millions of gig workers and solo entrepreneurs, with no hardware or monthly fees. Built into both platforms is JIM, an AI business assistant that acts as a business analyst, marketer, and sales specialist. Through a simple chat interface, it helps with pricing, marketing copy, scheduling, contract review, cash-flow analysis, and even creates ecommerce sites and other software for customers.

Who they are: Luis founded CloudWalk in 2013 — his sixth venture since starting his first company at 21. Born in Franca, a shoe-manufacturing town in the countryside of São Paulo, he attended public school, never enrolled in a university, and has been a self-taught programmer since age 11. Rather than treating his non-traditional path as an exception, Luis has turned it into an opportunity for others. CloudWalk is a corporate sponsor of Alpha EdTech, run by the Alpha Lumen Institute and one of Brazil’s largest professional tech-training programs for people from underserved communities. The company has also extended this commitment by supporting LALA (Latin American Leadership Academy), whose programs develop the next generation of ethical and entrepreneurial leaders across Latin America.

GeologicAI

Entrepreneur: Grant Sanden
Endeavor Office: Canada

What they do: GeologicAI is an integrated hardware, software, and services platform that gives mining companies real-time, high-resolution rock data to decide where to dig, how to dig, and what an asset is worth. The platform compresses an information loop that used to take weeks or months into hours. Its core scanning robots are deployed on site at the mine and read every meter of the drilled core as it comes off the drill, capturing chemistry, mineral composition, and physical structure at every coordinate by running six sensor types simultaneously. That data flows directly into the company’s resource modeling software and is used to make critical decisions that save mining companies time and money. Customers now span 12 countries and include Rio Tinto, BHP, Freeport, Anglo American, Newmont, and all top-3 Canadian miners.

Who they are: Grant trained as a mechanical engineer at the University of Calgary and earned a citation in applied geostatistics from the University of Alberta. He spent 15 years in oil and gas working at Imperial Oil followed by being a partner at a reservoir engineering firm called Sproule. There, he worked valuing oil-sands acquisitions and divestitures globally — work that sat at the intersection of oil and gas and mining. The vantage point was unusual. It allowed him to see that the same billion-dollar capital decisions in mining ran on technology a decade behind the oil and gas industry. Grant built a research consultancy to close that gap, and in 2013, after a Shell pilot on hyperspectral core scanning, he bought the IP back and founded the company that became GeologicAI.

Hercle

Entrepreneur: Gabriele Sabbatini
Endeavor Office: Italy

What they do: Founded in 2019 in Milan, Hercle is an institutional-grade platform that connects fiat currencies, stablecoins, and digital assets to enable cross-border transactions and real-time liquidity at scale. Serving more than 200 clients — including banks, brokers, payment service providers, corporate treasuries, and fintechs — Hercle gives global institutions the infrastructure they need for cross-border payments, trading, and treasury management.

Who they are: Gabriele has a decade of experience in the digital asset industry. Prior to founding Hercle, he worked in crypto payments and exchange operations at BitFlyer, one of Japan’s largest regulated cryptocurrency exchanges and among the first to hold full licensing across both Japan and the EU. At the same time, he served as General Secretary of the Blockchain Education Network in Italy, working to develop digital asset literacy and policy frameworks in the Italian market. Together, these experiences gave him early, ground-level insight into the friction institutions face when moving value across borders and asset classes.

Kiss My Apps

Entrepreneur: Dmytro Lola
Endeavor Office: Ukraine

What they do: Founded in Kyiv in 2022, Kiss My Apps is a platform company behind the development and growth of 20+ consumer products across productivity, health, and lifestyle categories. Top-performing products scaled through the platform are Air Printer, a mobile tool for mobile document management; Chillio, a gamified self-care app; and AI Remodel, an AI-powered interior design tool. Apps grown by Kiss My Apps are available in 190 countries, with distribution concentrated primarily in North America, Asia, and Europe. Since launch, products have reached 130M+ cumulative users.

Who they are: Kiss My Apps is led by Dmytro “Dima” (CEO), a Ukrainian entrepreneur who built early expertise in product development and digital marketing within Ukraine’s tech ecosystem, where speed, resourcefulness, and capital efficiency are paramount. Prior to founding KMA, Dmytro served as Head of Mobile Products at a Ukrainian product development firm before joining Tonti Laguna Mobile as CEO. That experience surfaced the core insight behind Kiss My Apps: most companies fail to repeatedly and profitably scale multiple apps, creating an opportunity to build a structured, repeatable product engine.

Lexroom

Entrepreneurs: Paolo Fois, Martina Domenicali and Andrea Lonza
Endeavor Office: Italy

What they do: Lexroom is an AI-powered platform for legal work, grounded in millions of verified legal sources across the jurisdictions it serves. Legal professionals use it for research, analysis, and document drafting. Users can use the “Ask Lexroom” feature to query the company’s proprietary database and get answers grounded in verified sources for their jurisdiction. They can also use the platform to generate draft documents and access a number of practice management tools. The platform currently serves legal professionals across Italy, Spain, and Germany.

Who they are: Paolo (CEO), Andrea (CTO), and Martina (CRO) all met at the Vento, a venture builder based in Turin. Martina, a trained lawyer, identified the core insight:general-purpose models would not be reliable enough for high-stakes legal work, which requires AI grounded in localized legal data. Prior to starting Lexroom, Paolo had been in startups since he was 18, starting as the right hand to an e-commerce founder, then moving through tech consulting and Macai, an Italian grocery delivery company. Martina trained in law at Bologna and King’s College London, then founded an edtech startup, an experience that pushed her toward entrepreneurship and Vento. Andrea has worked in AI since university, most recently as a computer vision engineer at a Turin startup, and built Lexroom’s MVP in the year between founding and launch.

Movii

Entrepreneur: Hernando Rubio
Endeavor Office: Colombia

What they do: Founded in 2017 in Bogotá, Movii has evolved from Colombia’s first regulated digital wallet into a full-stack payments infrastructure provider. Its core product is a cloud-based platform that routes transactions across cards, Bre-B (Colombia’s Pix equivalent), PSE, and QR through a single integration — achieving a 94% transaction approval rate and 75% fraud reduction. Movii goes to market primarily through payment facilitators like dLocal (Endeavor Entrepreneur) which international merchants use to access local rails across emerging markets. Today, Movii processes volume for Uber, Netflix, Google, and Spotify without needing to sell to each merchant directly. That model drove $4 billion in total payment volume and 386 million transactions in 2025, capturing roughly 62% of Colombia’s digital transaction market in three years.

Who they are: Hernando spent his early career in sales roles at Cruz Blanca before four years as Commercial Director at Cellstar, one of Latin America’s largest cellular phone distributors. He then turned to entrepreneurship, founding Solidda Group, a tech distribution and logistics company, and InComm Colombia, the local arm of a US gift card company. His conviction about financial inclusion came from personal experience: excluded from formal credit as a young man, he fell into a predatory lending trap of loan sharks. In 2000, he launched MoviiRed, one of Colombia’s largest cash payment agent networks with over 90,000 locations, before launching Movii in 2017 as a digital wallet. By 2022, he expanded to B2B payments infrastructure, the core product today. He serves on the board of Colombia Fintech and has been a central figure in shaping the regulatory environment that made new entrants like Movii possible.

Open Cosmos

Entrepreneur: Rafel Jorda Siquier
Endeavor Office: Spain

What they do: Founded in 2015 in Harwell, UK, Open Cosmos has evolved from a satellite manufacturer into a vertically integrated space-as-a-service platform spanning the full mission lifecycle — from satellite design, manufacturing, and launch to in-orbit operations, data analytics, and connectivity. Its four product lines form a complementary stack: OpenOrbit delivers turnkey satellite missions; OpenConstellation operates a shared satellite network where members pool satellite capacity; DataCosmos is an AI-powered SaaS platform converting raw satellite imagery into actionable intelligence; and ConnectedCosmos, launched in early 2026, provides secure sovereign communications via its private satellite constellation. The company serves primarily governments across Europe, including the European Space Agency, the UK Ministry of Defence, and Greece’s national constellation program.

Who they are: Rafel, Open Cosmos’s co-founder and CEO, studied Aerospace Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and completed an MBA from EOI Business School on an Airbus-SEPI grant. He began his career at zero2infinity, a Spanish space startup, before joining Airbus Defence and Space as a Flight Test and Production Engineer on the A400M program. The founding insight was structural: the traditional satellite industry was fragmented across dozens of specialist vendors — hardware manufacturers, launch brokers, data analysts — making missions slow, expensive, and opaque. In 2015, Rafel co-founded Open Cosmos with a mandate to make space access simple, affordable, and fast.

Peak Energy

Entrepreneur: Landon Mossburg
Endeavor Office: Colorado – USA

What they do: Founded in 2023, Peak Energy sells grid-scale battery storage systems to utilities and independent power producers. Its flagship product, GS-1.1, is the world’s first fully passive grid-scale system, eliminating the fans, pumps, and chillers that conventional lithium-ion systems require to manage heat. Built on a proprietary sodium-ion chemistry that avoids rare-earth minerals, the system delivers 20+ years of infrastructure-grade operation with zero scheduled maintenance. Peak deployed the first grid-scale sodium-ion system on the U.S. grid in July 2025 and signed a 4.75 GWh supply agreement with BlackRock-backed Jupiter Power beginning in 2026.

Who they are: After graduating from Wake Forest University, Landon Mossburg (CEO) joined Accenture as a management consultant before moving to Tesla, where he worked in engineering and supply chain automation. There, he was fascinated by battery technology, leading him to join Northvolt, a European lithium-ion battery developer for electric vehicles. He spent five years there, rising to President of North America, giving him a firsthand view of the costs and complexity of maintaining traditional lithium-ion systems. In 2023, Landon co-founded Peak Energy to build the modern grid’s first fully passive, low-maintenance sodium-ion battery storage system.

Principia

Entrepreneur: Newton Maia
Endeavor Office: Brazil

What they do: Founded in Brazil, Principia is a technology-driven financial and operational platform built for education institutions. The platform helps schools collect tuition more reliably, manage cash flow, and improve student retention, addressing some of the most persistent operational challenges in the sector. Principia currently serves more than 1,300 educational institutions and has raised $30.6M from investors including Valor Capital.

Who they are: Newton spent fifteen years at the intersection of private equity and operations in Brazilian education before founding Principia. He began his career as a Business Analyst at McKinsey, then founded his first venture: a shrimp farm in northeast Brazil, funded by his McKinsey bosses, which he ran with 100 employees at age 23. Then, he joined Advent International’s investment team in Brazil, where he built a hybrid career — investing in education companies while simultaneously serving as an operator in three portfolio companies. His involvement with Kroton, Brazil’s largest education company, was the most formative for Principia. Newton spent more than four years as Board Member and interim CFO of Kroton. He then led the restructuring of Atmosfera, an industrial laundry company with over 4,000 employees, through a successful sale to a strategic buyer, and then served as CEO of IMC (International Meal Company), a publicly listed Brazilian food group, where he led a team of over 10,000 people across four countries and grew the store count from 254 to 481.

Resolve AI

Entrepreneur: Spiros Xanthos
Endeavor Office: Greece

What they do: Developers spend only 16% of their time writing code — the remaining 84% goes to running, maintaining, and firefighting production systems. Founded in 2024, Resolve AI is a multi-agent platform that resolves issues at machine speed so engineers don’t have to. When something breaks at 2 a.m., Resolve’s agents get to work before the on-call engineer even wakes up. The agents review alerts, logs, metrics, traces, and infrastructure data to identify the root cause of the issue and propose a solution. The same production context layer extends beyond incident response into infrastructure cost optimization, deployment risk assessment, runbook and post-mortem generation, and helping engineers understand legacy codebases before making changes.

Who they are: Spiros grew up in Greece and came to the United States to pursue a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His career has been a continuous effort to solve one of software’s hardest problems: making large-scale production systems observable, understandable, and ultimately self-healing. He founded Pattern Insight, whose log analytics product was acquired by VMware in 2012, then co-founded Omnition, where he co-created OpenTelemetry — now the industry standard for telemetry collection and one of the most active open-source projects in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation — before Splunk acquired the company in 2019. As SVP and General Manager of Splunk’s Observability business, the founding insight behind Resolve crystallized: the problem was never the data. Logs, metrics, and traces were abundant. The problem was that humans remained the connective tissue across all of it, waking up at 3am, manually querying five different tools, and making high-stakes decisions under pressure with incomplete information. He co-founded Resolve AI in February 2024 to build the reasoning and action layer that had always been missing.

SeQura

Entrepreneur: David Bäckström
Endeavor Office: Spain

What they do: Founded in Barcelona in 2013, SeQura is a full-stack smart commerce platform combining embedded financing, checkout technology, and vertical SaaS tools to serve merchants and consumers across Southern Europe and beyond. Its three core verticals are SeQura Commerce, a checkout financing and post-purchase loyalty platform serving thousands of retail merchants including Alcon, Iberia, AliExpress, and Carrefour; EduQa, an enrollment and lifecycle management solution for education centers with hundreds of thousands of students across 5 markets, backed by a European Investment Fund first-loss guarantee; and OptiQa, a subscription-based eyewear service scaling across hundreds of optical stores in 4 countries. The platform operates across Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, and Germany, with the US and Mexico planned to launch in 2026. SeQura’s off-balance-sheet financing structure is funded by Citi, M&G, and Chenavari, and its proprietary credit engine – trained on over a decade of transaction data – delivers approval rates nearly three times higher than traditional banks.

Who they are: David Bäckström, SeQura’s founder and CEO, is a Swedish serial entrepreneur, and SeQura is his fourth company. He has been based in Barcelona since 2002. His first venture, SparaPengar.com, was a digital financial brokerage covering loans, mortgages, and utilities that connected 4% of Swedish households within 18 months before being acquired. He then co-founded the European Telemedicine Clinic, a diagnostic imaging center with over 600 doctors, and after moving to Spain launched AhorraDinero, a price comparison platform spanning Sweden, Spain, and the US. The pivot to payments came from a cultural observation. In Sweden, consumers routinely receive goods before paying via invoice, a model built on high trust and strong payment infrastructure. When David moved to Barcelona, he found that this model barely existed: customers hesitated to pay upfront, merchants feared non-payment, and trust was missing on both sides. Transitioning out of Telemedicine in 2011, he saw in Klarna a proof point that a risk-absorbing intermediary could unlock the same “pay later” model in Southern Europe, where it was arguably even more valuable. In 2013, he founded SeQura to close that gap. David holds degrees in business administration from Umeå University Business School and MIT.

Zippi

Entrepreneurs: Ludmila Pontremolez, Bruno Lucas, and André Bernardes
Endeavor Office: Brazil

What they do: Founded in 2021, Zippi is a Brazilian fintech that provides PIX-based working capital solutions to micro-entrepreneurs. By building directly on top of Brazil’s instant payment infrastructure, Zippi offers short-term supplier financing that eliminates card network fees, enables instant payments, and integrates naturally into the daily financial habits of its users — delivering better unit economics and a superior customer experience compared to traditional card-based credit.

Who they are: Zippi was co-founded by André (CEO), Bruno (CFO), and Ludmila (CTO). André studied finance at FGV and began his career at Bank of America before working as a product manager at MoneyHero, a Series B fintech in Hong Kong. He later pursued an MBA at MIT, where he served as president of the MIT Fintech Club and met Bruno, his future co-founder. Bruno studied economics and government at Cornell and built his career as an equity research analyst at Opus Investimentos and Gávea Investimentos in Brazil before returning to the U.S. for his MBA at MIT. After graduating, André and Bruno were introduced to Ludmila through a mutual friend. Ludmila studied computer engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica in São Paulo, interned at NASA and Microsoft, and went on to build her career in Silicon Valley — first at CareLuLu and later as a lead software engineer at Square, where she developed financial solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. The three came together with a shared conviction: that Brazil’s 40 million micro-entrepreneurs deserved faster, cheaper, and more accessible financial services than what traditional credit could offer.

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