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Palo Alto, California

Felix Schlegel

Co-founder & CTO of The Interaction Company, makers of Poke.

Building the next era of human-computer interaction.

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About

Felix Schlegel is a computer scientist and founder whose work spans research and company-building. He studied Computer Science at TU Munich, has been a Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge and a Research Affiliate at Stanford, and co-founded TUM Boring, the team that won Elon Musk's Not-a-Boring Competition. Today he is co-founder and CTO of The Interaction Company of California, where he is building Poke with his childhood friend Marvin von Hagen.

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Highlights

  • Co-founded Poke & The Interaction Company

    poke.com / interaction.co

    Building Poke at The Interaction Company of California. Raised $27M led by Spark Capital and General Catalyst at a $300M valuation.

  • Won Elon Musk's Not-a-Boring Competition

    2021

    Co-founded TUM Boring, the student team that took first place in the 2021 tunnel-boring competition.

  • Two-time Apple WWDC Scholar

    2018 & 2019

    Recognized by Apple for student work, then interned on the Swift on Server team in London.

  • Research across TUM, Cambridge & Stanford

    Apple · Swift on Server

    Computer Science at TU Munich, Visiting Researcher at Cambridge (St Edmund’s College), Research Affiliate at Stanford, and Researcher at Fraunhofer AISEC.

  • Z Fellow

    Selected for the Z Fellows program supporting early founders and researchers.

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