Mariam Rizk

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Founder & CEO, Lantern Finance - LLMs · fundraising · product

Lantern Finance
Munich, Germany · CET (UTC+1)
11+ years experience
University of Amsterdam
English, German
Raising
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Overview

Founder & CEO of Lantern Finance, working on AI agents for operations teams. Raised $21 million across 3 rounds. Signed 178 paying customers, 14 of them enterprises. Before that: Glovo and Google. Most at home with LLMs and automation.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Second opinions on product decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Questions about AI agents for operations teams
Please don't message about
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Crypto token projects
  • Courses and coaching offers

Replies on weekday evenings

Skills
fundraisingLLMsB2B SaaSautomationproduct
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $4M Series A for payroll for cloud-native startups

Stage
Series A
Raising
$4M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
23 enterprise pilots after 24 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

23 enterprise pilots after 24 months. Looking for investors who know wealth management and can help with enterprise sales.

Munich, Germany · remote OKllmsautomationfundraising
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Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    May 2025 - Present
    Lantern Finance · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Munich, Germany
    • Signed 120 paying customers, 16 of them enterprises.
    • Previously built and sold a small AI agents for operations teams company.
  2. Director of Product
    Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
    Glovo · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Munich, Germany
    • Took platform activation from 32% to 43% in three quarters.
    • Launched the platform product in 12 markets.
  3. Associate Product Manager
    Mar 2020 - Jul 2023
    Google · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Munich, Germany
    • Ran 148 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  4. Senior Product Manager
    Jul 2018 - Feb 2020
    Volkswagen Group · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Munich, Germany
    • Killed 8 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
    • Launched the platform product in 9 markets.
  5. Senior Product Manager
    Jul 2015 - Jul 2018
    ING · 3 yr · Full-time · Munich, Germany
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new platform customers from 21 days to 2.
    • Launched the platform product in 13 markets.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from company
2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling AI agents for operations teams.

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Education

  1. University of Amsterdam
    BSc, Economics
    2010 - 2013

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