Founder · Executive

Stef van Grieken

CradleCo-founder and CEO

Van Grieken co-founded Cradle to make protein engineering more programmable. Its models help biologists propose and prioritize protein variants for medicines, sustainable materials and industrial processes, shortening the costly laboratory search for designs that actually work.

Career & education

Current role

Cradle2021-present

Co-founder and CEO

Previously

Google2014-2021

Group Product Manager, AI and X

Education

University of Groningen

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

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