Who We Are

At Pathway we are shaking the foundations of artificial intelligence by introducing the world’s first post-transformer model that adapts and thinks just like humans.

Our breakthrough architecture outperforms Transformer and provides the enterprise with full visibility into how the model works. Combining the foundational model with the fastest data processing engine on the market, Pathway enables enterprises to move beyond incremental optimization and toward truly contextualized, experience-driven intelligence. We are trusted by organizations such as NATO, La Poste, and Formula 1 racing teams.

Pathway is led by co-founder & CEO Zuzanna Stamirowska, a complexity scientist who created a team consisting of AI pioneers, including CTO Jan Chorowski who was the first person to apply Attention to speech and worked with Nobel laureate Goeff Hinton at Google Brain, as well as CSO Adrian Kosowski, a leading computer scientist and quantum physicist who obtained his PhD at the age of 20.

The company is backed by leading investors and advisors, including Lukasz Kaiser, co-author of the Transformer (“the T” in ChatGPT) and a key researcher behind OpenAI’s reasoning models. Pathway is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Pathway has strong investor backing. To date, we have raised over $15M; our latest reported round was our seed.

Our offices are located in Palo Alto, CA, as well as Paris, France, and Wroclaw, Poland.

Zuzanna Stamirowska

CEO Chief Executive Officer

• Created state-of-the-art forecasting models for complex network evolution - published by the Academy of Sciences of The United States of America
• On the cover of Le Point - “100 geniuses whose innovation will change the world”.
• Graduate of Ecole Polytechnique, Sciences Po, Stockholm School of Economics. PhD in Complex Systems, expert in Game Theory on graphs.

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Jan Chorowski

CTO Chief Technology Officer

• Co-author of Nobel Prize Winner Geoff Hinton
• Ex-MILA, ex-Google Brain (Sami Bengio’s team)
• Contributed to early attention models, co-author of Theano,
• 12k citations, h index of 24. (Google Scholar)
• Built the tech organization at Pathway.

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Adrian Kosowski

CSO Chief Scientific Officer

• PhD at 20 in algorithms, tenured at 23 at Inria
• 100+ scientific papers, h index of 29,
• Early pioneer of navigable small world search (ACM SPAA Best Paper)
• Top publications across graph algorithms, graph walks, distributed and agentic computing, quantum information, self organizing bio-inspired systems.
• Professor and Coach of competitive programmers at Ecole Polytechnique
• Co-founder of the first and largest online community of competitive programmers, Spoj.com.

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Victor Szczerba

CCO Chief Commercial Officer

• GVP at SAP, Market Development - launching all new solutions
• Started and scaled HANA ecosystem, ex-McKinsey, ex-Sun.
• Scaled EIM (data business) from $200Mto$500M
• Co-founder of YetiData, world’s first CDP
• 2 AI patents, Berkeley Haas Alumni Board

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Claire Nouet

COO Chief Operating Officer

• Initiated and closed deals with the most strategic accounts, like NATO
• Optimizing operational efficiency, including funding and resource allocation.
• Ensuring delivery at unprecedented speed and quality

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Other team members include:

• Red elo-rated competitive programmers,
• Machine learning & graph algorithms PhDs,
• Numerous ex-Googlers, ex-Meta, and researchers from the world’s leading Computer Science labs,
• An infrastructure guru, who scaled and exited a 10M daily user social network,
• Community champions who have grown programmers communities to millions.

Pathway Supporters

Lukasz Kaiser

Co-inventor of Transformers, main researcher behind the GPT o1 breakthrough the very first backer of Pathway.