Max Welling
Max Welling is a professor of machine learning at the University of Amsterdam and co-founder and CTO of CuspAI, an AI-driven materials discovery company. He is best known for his foundational contributions to machine learning, including co-inventing variational autoencoders (VAEs) and pioneering work on graph convolutional networks. He was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2025.
“The stealth cohort skews heavily toward second-time founders and senior operators from Palantir, Meta, Spotify, AWS, and Moderna, while the funded cohort includes founders from n8n, Onfido-grade exits, and academic heavyweights like Max Welling.”
“The funded cohort includes founders from n8n, Onfido-grade exits, and academic heavyweights like Max Welling.”
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