Joan Faura

Entrepreneur in the Tech-Advertising Sphere | Passionate Investor

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 2 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026
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Apr 2026
Fluidstack accelerates the world’s most ambitious AI projects by removing the bottlenecks to compute. Partnering with leading AI labs, governments, and enterprises, we deploy scaled infrastructure at speed to unlock a future of abundant intelligence.
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Aug 2025
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
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Apr 2025
Urbanic is a global fashion company headquartered in London, committed to balancing creativity and sustainability through the use of advanced technology. Since our inception, we have been committed to empowering consumers with top-notch fashion that blends innovation and social responsibility. We are recognized as one of the most rapidly expanding fashion retailers in key emerging markets. We invite you to be part of our journey to reshape the fashion landscape by fostering creativity, embracing technology, and promoting sustainability. Urbanic - We are because you are.
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Nov 2024
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).
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Oct 2024
Anduril is not a traditional defense contractor. We are shaping the future of defense, transforming US & allied military capabilities with advanced technology. We emphasize speed and results and control our products from start to finish, including funding R&D to selling finished products off the shelf. Today, Anduril is in a rapid growth phase, deploying technology in diverse locations and developing path-making products that will change defense forever. We believe that everyone at Anduril can be a catalyst. Your perspective can change lives, and we want to help you make your mark. Our team includes thinkers and doers working interdependently. We bring the brightest minds and best-in-class talent together with veterans who have lived the problems of our warfighters. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in the real world, we want you at Anduril. With offices in Orange County, Washington DC, Seattle, Boston, Atlanta, London, and Sydney, our reach is wide. Check out our careers page at https://www.anduril.com/careers or send us an email at careers@anduril.com.
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Sep 2024
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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Aug 2024
Inference is the engine that powers AI, and Groq was built from the silicon up to deliver the worlds fastest inference at scale. We pioneered the LPU—the first processor designed specifically for AI inference—and are transforming that innovation into a global cloud platform powering production AI workloads. With the capital, infrastructure, and team to execute, were uniquely positioned to define the next era of AI infrastructure. The opportunity is massive, and its still wide open. Now lets go build it!
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Feb 2024
Opticks provides fraud detection and prevention solutions for leading advertisers and agencies. Our relentless mission is to deliver reliable and innovative software to beat digital fraud.
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Apr 2026
Fluidstack accelerates the world’s most ambitious AI projects by removing the bottlenecks to compute. Partnering with leading AI labs, governments, and enterprises, we deploy scaled infrastructure at speed to unlock a future of abundant intelligence.
2025
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Sep 2025
Panxo® ( Patent Pending: US 63/930,757 ) is the first infrastructure platform built specifically for monetizing traffic from conversational AI. We identify visitors arriving from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini, classify their intent in real-time, and connect high-value segments to premium demand. Manifest | Bringing money back into publishers’ hands for their content is essential if we want real humans to continue producing investigation, journalism, and high-quality content in the years ahead. AI is delivering many powerful benefits, but it is also built by scraping and leveraging the lifetime work of countless creators. Since this reality is unavoidable, the responsibility now is to ensure that value flows back to those who created the content in the first place. Technologies like Panxo make this possible by delivering high conversion rates for advertisers and higher CPMs for publishers creating a true win-win model with fewer intermediaries across the ecosystem.
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Aug 2025
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
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Apr 2025
Urbanic is a global fashion company headquartered in London, committed to balancing creativity and sustainability through the use of advanced technology. Since our inception, we have been committed to empowering consumers with top-notch fashion that blends innovation and social responsibility. We are recognized as one of the most rapidly expanding fashion retailers in key emerging markets. We invite you to be part of our journey to reshape the fashion landscape by fostering creativity, embracing technology, and promoting sustainability. Urbanic - We are because you are.
2024
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Nov 2024
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).
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