Founder
Stef van Grieken
Co-Founder & CEO of Cradle
Dutch-born entrepreneur · AI & Biotech
Amsterdam, Netherlands
01 / About
Stef van Grieken co-founded Cradle in 2021 with Jelle Prins, building software that uses machine learning to help biologists design and improve proteins. The company operates between Amsterdam and Zurich and sits at the intersection of generative models and applied life sciences.
02 / Company
- Company
- Cradle
- Industry
- AI & Biotech
- Founded
- 2021
- Dutch origin
- Netherlands
- Current location
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Founder role
- Co-Founder & CEO
Cradle builds AI protein engineering software used by biotech and industrial biology teams to design improved proteins.
03 / Why they're featured
- 01
Co-founded one of Europe's most visible AI-for-biology companies.
- 02
Built for working biologists rather than machine learning specialists.
- 03
Anchors Amsterdam in the applied generative-biology conversation.
04 / At a glance
- Founder
- Stef van Grieken
- Company
- Cradle
- Industry
- AI & Biotech
- Dutch origin
- Netherlands
- Current location
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Founded
- 2021
- Status
- Featured