# The Beam: Week 44, 2026 | Lighthouse

> This week on The Beam: stealth founders including Bergen Merey and Eeshita Pande, plus newly launched Till, MidWhere, and Nakato, sourced with Lighthouse.

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# The Beam: Week 44, 2026

This week's edition of The Beam: fresh stealth founders and newly launched companies surfaced from the Lighthouse platform.
Jacopo Bonfiglio - Co-founder @ Lighthouse

Welcome to this week's edition of The Beam by Lighthouse, fresh stealth founders and newly launched companies from our platform.

## Stealth Founders

Bergen Merey United Kingdom

Experience: Building something new in AI - Co-founded throxy (YC X25). Education: University of Bath.
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bmerey/)

Eeshita Pande United Kingdom

Experience: Building AI agents. Education: King's College London.
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eeshita-pande-441a87bb/)

Szymon Piekarz Poland

Experience: Serial Founder. Education: University of New Brunswick.
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonpiekarz/)

## Newly Launched Companies

[Till](https://till.work) France

The agent built for teamwork.
[Website](https://till.work)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tillai/)

[MidWhere](https://midwhere.com) Belgium

The infrastructure that orchestrates, governs and proves AI, on the company's own premises.
[Website](https://midwhere.com)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwhere/)

[Nakato](https://nakato.ai) United Kingdom

Nakato is a privacy layer between that data and the AI models you want to use.
[Website](https://nakato.ai)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nakatoai/)

These signals were surfaced automatically with Lighthouse, the AI-native platform for sourcing and tracking the companies you care about.

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