Empowering the World's Most Ambitious Founders Under 26

What if the world’s most influential leaders today were best friends 20 years ago? This is what the Sigma Squared Society is all about.

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Omar Bawa

Co-founder & COO

@

Goodwall

Philipp Merk

Co-founder & CEO

@

Kyon Energy

Mona Ghazi

Co-founder & CEO

@

Optimo

Mateo Semerene

Co-founder & COO

@

AltScore

Elias Groll

Co-founder & CEO

@

Codesphere

Yoko Spirig

Co-founder & CEO

@

Ledgy

Ahana Banerjee

Co-founder & CEO

@

Clear

Louise Mabulo

Founder & CEO

@

The Cacao Project

Barbara Stegmann

Co-founder & CEO

@

living brain

Helena Siren Gualinga

Co-founder & CEO

@

Polluters Out

Vaitea Cowan

Co-founder & CCO

@

Enapter

Philipp Merk

Co-founder & CEO

@

Kyon Energy

Ahana Banerjee

Co-founder & CEO

@

Clear

Helena Siren Gualinga

Co-founder & CEO

@

Polluters Out

Omar Bawa

Co-founder & COO

@

Goodwall

Elias Groll

Co-founder & CEO

@

Codesphere

Mateo Semerene

Co-founder & COO

@

AltScore

Yoko Spirig

Co-founder & CEO

@

Ledgy

Louise Mabulo

Founder & CEO

@

The Cacao Project

Mona Ghazi

Co-founder & CEO

@

Optimo

Vaitea Cowan

Co-founder & CCO

@

Enapter

Barbara Stegmann

Co-founder & CEO

@

living brain

Josefien Groot

Co-founder & CEO

@

Qlayers

Maxime Paradis

Founder & Managing Partner

@

G. Ventures

Mike Mahlkow

Co-founder & CEO

@

Fastgen

Caroline Zhang

Co-founder & CEO

@

Knowtex

Sebastian Böhmer

Founding Partner

@

First Momentum Ventures

Wiktoria Wójcik

Co-founder & CMO

@

inStreamly

Kami Krista

Co-founder & CEO

@

Elio

Caroline Zhang

Co-founder & CEO

@

Knowtex

Wiktoria Wójcik

Co-founder & CMO

@

inStreamly

Maxime Paradis

Founder & Managing Partner

@

G. Ventures

Kami Krista

Co-founder & CEO

@

Elio

Mike Mahlkow

Co-founder & CEO

@

Fastgen

Sebastian Böhmer

Founding Partner

@

First Momentum Ventures

Josefien Groot

Co-founder & CEO

@

Qlayers

Julian Lindinger

Co-founder & CEO

@

PowerUs

Piotr Grzegorczyk

Co-founder & CEO

@

Deepflare

Alexander Valtingojer

Co-founder & CEO

@

Coinpanion

Fabian Rang

Co-founder & CTO

@

paretos

Felix Ohswald

Co-founder & CEO

@

GoStudent

Alexandra Miszewski

Co-founder & CEO

@

Novita Biotechnology

Eloa Guillotin

Co-founder & CEO

@

Beyond Aero

Raffael Wohlgensinger

Co-founder & CEO

@

Formo

Mansi Jain

Co-founder & CEO

@

DigitalPaani

Alexander Valtingojer

Co-founder & CEO

@

Coinpanion

Alexandra Miszewski

Co-founder & CEO

@

Novita Biotechnology

Eloa Guillotin

Co-founder & CEO

@

Beyond Aero

Fabian Rang

Co-founder & CTO

@

paretos

Felix Ohswald

Co-founder & CEO

@

GoStudent

Julian Lindinger

Co-founder & CEO

@

PowerUs

Mansi Jain

Co-founder & CEO

@

DigitalPaani

Piotr Grzegorczyk

Co-founder & CEO

@

Deepflare

Raffael Wohlgensinger

Co-founder & CEO

@

Formo

1,000+

active Fellows

are building the next wave of impactful organizations.

$2B+

raised

by companies founded by Sigma Squared Fellows, 90% of which was raised after joining the fellowship.

33 countries

across 5 continents with active Sigma Squared Fellows.

Some of our partners

Our Fellows

The Sigma Squared Society is an invite-only community consisting of the world's boldest, smartest, and most forward-thinking entrepreneurs under the age of 26 who build solutions to the world's biggest problems.

Co-founder & CEO

@

Beyond Aero

Eloa Guillotin

Building a hydrogen-electric aircraft.

Co-founder & CCO

@

Enapter

Vaitea Cowan

Providing green hydrogen energy storage worldwide. IPO in 2020. Won the Earthshot Prize.

Co-founder & COO

@

AltScore

Mateo Semerene

Lending-as-a-Service toolbox allowing any company in LATAM to embed and deploy credit products.

Co-founder & CEO

@

Kyon Energy

Philipp Merk

Kyon Energy is a pioneer in energy storage solutions with a project pipeline of >1.500MW.

Co-founder & COO

@

Goodwall

Omar Bawa

Building the leading professional development network for the next generation with over 2 million users in 150 countries.

Co-founder & CEO

@

Fastgen

Mike Mahlkow

Building the Webflow for the backend. Raised $100M+ debt fund for his last company.

Co-founder & CEO

@

Coinpanion

Alexander Valtingojer

Enabling people to invest in cryptocurrencies automatically and securely without any previous knowledge. Raised €5.5M to date.

Co-founder & CEO

@

Polluters Out

Helena Siren Gualinga

A coalition of the entire climate movement and grassroots organizations from around the world.

Some of the companies founded
by our Fellows

Enapter

Replace fossil fuels with low-cost green hydrogen.

Perennial

Soil-based carbon removal: leading measurement, reporting, and verification platform. Raised $18M in Series A.

Kyon Energy

Kyon Energy is a pioneer in energy storage solutions and develops and sells renewable energy infrastructure and energy optimization software solutions.

First Momentum

Dedicated pre-seed venture capital fund for B2B tech and deeptech founders.

Breaktime

Breaking the cycle of young adult homelessness. 1M+ served meals by and for young homeless people.

Dashlabs

Lab Software, accelerating healthy access to healthcare. 80+ employees in less than two years.

CircuitMess

Making an AI-powered Batmobile™ in collaboration with Warner Bros to teach kids STEM.

Goodwall

Next-generation community for students & young professionals. 2M+ users in 150+ countries. Raised over $20M.

peaq

Powering the Web3 Economy of Things. Raised $9.9M.

Flowrite

Turning words into ready-to-send emails and messages. Raised $5.1M.

Dashlabs

Lab Software, accelerating healthy access to healthcare. 80+ employees in less than two years.

Perennial

Soil-based carbon removal: leading measurement, reporting, and verification platform. Raised $18M in Series A.

Breaktime

Breaking the cycle of young adult homelessness. 1M+ served meals by and for young homeless people.

First Momentum

Dedicated pre-seed venture capital fund for B2B tech and deeptech founders.

Enapter

Replace fossil fuels with low-cost green hydrogen.

Goodwall

Next-generation community for students & young professionals. 2M+ users in 150+ countries. Raised over $20M.

CircuitMess

Making an AI-powered Batmobile™ in collaboration with Warner Bros to teach kids STEM.

peaq

Powering the Web3 Economy of Things. Raised $9.9M.

Kyon Energy

Kyon Energy is a pioneer in energy storage solutions and develops and sells renewable energy infrastructure and energy optimization software solutions.

Flowrite

Turning words into ready-to-send emails and messages. Raised $5.1M.

G Ventures

France's 1st Student VC. Funding France's most ambitious young founders.

Bardeen

No-code workflow automation tool that helps knowledge workers become more productive. $15M Series A.

ChargeX

State of the art charging solution for electric vehicles. Raised €16M.

Ledgy

Equity management software for startups and businesses. $10M Series A led by Sequoia.

PowerUs

Digital career platform for technical blue-collar workers. $10M Series A.

Factmata

One of the first companies in the world to tackle misinformation and disinformation, and raised $3.5M.

Maverick BioMetals

Developing a biological process to efficiently extract lithium, rare earth elements, and other metals from hard rock deposits

living brain

Developing solutions for rehabilitation combining psychology, neuroscience and virtual reality. Raised $1.5M.

Authory

First automated platform bringing together all content of journalists. Managing 3.5M articles for 2.500+ journalists.

Beyond Aero

Building a hydrogen-electric aircraft. Supported by top investors and the french government.

Ledgy

Equity management software for startups and businesses. $10M Series A led by Sequoia.

G Ventures

France's 1st Student VC. Funding France's most ambitious young founders.

Authory

First automated platform bringing together all content of journalists. Managing 3.5M articles for 2.500+ journalists.

Bardeen

No-code workflow automation tool that helps knowledge workers become more productive. $15M Series A.

Maverick BioMetals

Developing a biological process to efficiently extract lithium, rare earth elements, and other metals from hard rock deposits

PowerUs

Digital career platform for technical blue-collar workers. $10M Series A.

Beyond Aero

Building a hydrogen-electric aircraft. Supported by top investors and the french government.

living brain

Developing solutions for rehabilitation combining psychology, neuroscience and virtual reality. Raised $1.5M.

Factmata

One of the first companies in the world to tackle misinformation and disinformation, and raised $3.5M.

ChargeX

State of the art charging solution for electric vehicles. Raised €16M.

Formo

Bringing the next generation of dairy products to consumers. Raised $50M to date.

Coinpanion

Making the crypto world more accessible and transparent with smart portfolios. €5.5M seed round.

EWOR

Helping the greatest talent launch successful businesses with Europe’s top professors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders

simpleclub

Germany's top learning app with over 2 million users. Raised €7.2M in Series A.

Parloa

Parloa is one of the leading SaaS platforms for Conversational AI. Raised $23M in Series A.

Knowunity

Europe's fastest growing learning platform for students with 8M users, €21M funding and up to 100,000 new users per day.

Wasp AI

Programming language for building full-stack web applications. $1.5M seed round.

Remnote

The first smart note-taking tool that let's you structure knowledge exactly in the way you think about it. $3M seed round.

Remnote

The first smart note-taking tool that let's you structure knowledge exactly in the way you think about it. $3M seed round.

EWOR

Helping the greatest talent launch successful businesses with Europe’s top professors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders

Knowunity

Europe's fastest growing learning platform for students with 8M users, €21M funding and up to 100,000 new users per day.

Coinpanion

Making the crypto world more accessible and transparent with smart portfolios. €5.5M seed round.

Formo

Bringing the next generation of dairy products to consumers. Raised $50M to date.

simpleclub

Germany's top learning app with over 2 million users. Raised €7.2M in Series A.

Parloa

Parloa is one of the leading SaaS platforms for Conversational AI. Raised $23M in Series A.

Wasp AI

Programming language for building full-stack web applications. $1.5M seed round.

Uniting the world’s greatest doers
to initiate change

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Announcement

October 15, 2024

UK

Sigma Squared Society is now an Official Nominator for The Earthshot Prize 2025!

Sigma Squared Society has for the first time become an Official Nominator for The Earthshot Prize 2025. The Prize is a global initiative aimed at discovering, celebrating, and scaling the most impactful solutions to help repair our planet. We have the honour of nominating standout projects from our community and we are proud to support such impactful initiatives!

RedStone Oracles raises $15M to further expand its oracle products

The Switzerland-based startup with Polish roots RedStone has announced the closure of its $15 million Series A round led by Arrington Capital. RedStone’s modular architecture will determine the next wave of dApps by offering the most gas-optimized and secure oracles in the DeFi space.

TestParty raises $4M to help automate the coding for accessible websites

TestParty, a software compliance company powered by AI, announced a $4 million seed round today co-led by Harlem Capital and the Urban Innovation Fund. The new funding will further accelerate their mission to give engineers the skills that they need to write ADA-compliant code and help businesses avoid violating global digital accessibility regulations.

Lumos secures $35M funding to launch the unified access platform

San-Fransisco based Lumos, a software company centralizing the management of apps and identities for IT and security teams, announced its $35M Series B financing led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Harpoon Ventures, Neo and others.Lumos revenue has grown 9x since its last fundraise, and has won over top enterprise customers like Pinterest, MongoDB, and GitHub.

Codesphere raises €16.5M to reduce infrastructure costs in DevOps

Karlsruhe-based Codesphere, which enables developers to program and scale complex applications directly in the cloud, has secured €16.5 million in funding. Pan-European VC Creandum led the investment round with existing investors including LEA Partners, Begin Capital, 42CAP and 468 also participating. This new capital injection will allow the company to expand its services further, including developing new solutions to manage the cost efficiency of large language models (LLMs) and improve collaboration within development teams.

Parloa receives €61.7M to expand AI-powered customer service platform

Berlin-based Parloa, a leader in AI-powered automation for customer service, announced that it has raised €61.7 million in Series B funding led by Altimeter Capital, with participation from new and existing investors EQT Ventures, Newion, Senovo, Mosaic Ventures and La Famiglia Growth. The funding brings Parloa’s total capital raised to-date to $98 million, following its $21 million Series A funding round led by EQT Ventures in 2023.

Forbes Europe 30 Under 30 2024 list features 12 Sigma Squared Fellows

The 2024 Forbes Europe 30 Under 30 list has unveiled its latest cohort, highlighting 12 exceptional Sigma Squared Fellows spanning Technology, Social Impact, Finance, Media & Marketing, and Healthcare & Science. This year's lineup reflects the growing influence and economic prowess of young leaders. The entrepreneurs and innovators featured on the 2024 list have collectively raised over $1 billion, spearheading transformative ventures.

peaq raises $15M to expand its DePIN ecosystem

peaq has raised $15M to strengthen its web3 network, which enables communities to mobilise around improving physical infrastructure, as the company prepares for launch. Currently, peaq hosts 20 decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePINs), decentralized apps that use tokens to incentivize people to crowdsource and build connected real-world infrastructure. The funding anticipates peaq's network launch after years of R&D.

What Sigma Squared Fellows say

Julian Lindinger

Co-founder & CEO

@

PowerUs

Sigma Squared is a great place to create friendships with ambitious people. Having a peer group where people support each other and are happy when others are successful is immensely helpful.

Felix Ohswald

Co-founder & CEO

@

GoStudent

It's just a group of astonishing and extraordinary individuals. Being part of that community and having the opportunity to exchange with each other is just amazing.

Josefien Groot

Co-founder & CEO

@

Qlayers

Unique community full of inspiring, young entrepreneurs that are ready to make the world a better place. It’s simply amazing to be in contact with likeminded people that are really focused on solutions rather than problems. Self-development is the key to changing your environment and that is why I like the approach of Sigma Squared, where personal and professional development are both viewed as one.

Vaitea Cowan

Co-founder & CCO

@

Enapter

Sigma Squared is where curiosity, humility and ambition meet. Fellows are dedicated to realizing their vision and sharing their learnings along the way. Being a part of Sigma Squared is the best energizer one can find!

Empowering the World's Most Ambitious Founders Under 26

Omar Bawa

Philipp Merk

Mona Ghazi

Mateo Semerene

Elias Groll

Yoko Spirig

Ahana Banerjee

Louise Mabulo

Barbara Stegmann

Helena Siren Gualinga

Vaitea Cowan

Philipp Merk

Ahana Banerjee

Helena Siren Gualinga

Omar Bawa

Elias Groll

Mateo Semerene

Yoko Spirig

Louise Mabulo

Mona Ghazi

Vaitea Cowan

Barbara Stegmann

Josefien Groot

Maxime Paradis

Mike Mahlkow

Caroline Zhang

Sebastian Böhmer

Wiktoria Wójcik

Kami Krista

Caroline Zhang

Wiktoria Wójcik

Maxime Paradis

Kami Krista

Mike Mahlkow

Sebastian Böhmer

Josefien Groot

Julian Lindinger

Piotr Grzegorczyk

Alexander Valtingojer

Fabian Rang

Felix Ohswald

Alexandra Miszewski

Eloa Guillotin

Raffael Wohlgensinger

Mansi Jain

Alexander Valtingojer

Alexandra Miszewski

Eloa Guillotin

Fabian Rang

Felix Ohswald

Julian Lindinger

Mansi Jain

Piotr Grzegorczyk

Raffael Wohlgensinger

1,000+

active Fellows

$2B+

raised

33

countries

Some of our partners

Our Fellows

Eloa Guillotin

Vaitea Cowan

Mateo Semerene

Philipp Merk

Omar Bawa

Mike Mahlkow

Alexander Valtingojer

Helena Siren Gualinga

Some of the companies founded by our Fellows

Enapter

Perennial

Kyon Energy

First Momentum

Breaktime

Dashlabs

CircuitMess

Goodwall

Some of the companies founded
by our Fellows

Uniting the world’s greatest doers
to initiate change

Read more about what our
Fellows are up to