Reimagining
Where Innovation
Comes From
KARIM BEGUIR,
INSTADEEP
His Journey to Making Tunisia a Generative
AI Market and Combatting COVID-19
Generative AI is often seen as Silicon Valley tech, but in 2014
Karim Beguir left a lucrative career in London to co-found
InstaDeep, an AI company in Tunisia. Its impact is already
global. During the COVID-19 pandemic, InstaDeep worked
with BioNTech to develop an early warning system that
detects new variants of the virus. The collaboration saved
lives and was so successful that BioNTech purchased the
company in 2023 for nearly $700 million — the largest-ever
exit for a Tunisian tech company.
Out of the thousands of Endeavor Entrepreneurs in our network, only
a few earn our highest honor each year: the Linda Award, named
after Endeavor's co-founder and CEO Linda Rottenberg. Nominated
by their peers, mentors, board members, and staff, recipients
embody Endeavor's highest values of integrity, trust, high-impact
ambition, and a commitment to paying it forward.
Together they provide a snapshot of the many diverse paths global
founders take to entrepreneurial success. Each of this year's
recipients blazed their own unique pathway to scale and impact,
but all of them share a commitment to spreading the power of
entrepreneurship globally.
Learn all about this year's
Linda Award winners
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