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Co-founder & CEO · Wonderful
Bar Winkler
Pairs AI agents with forward-deployed engineers — and tripled in value.
- Founded
- 2025
- HQ
- Amsterdam
- Sector
- AI Agents
- Company
- Wonderful
The story in brief
Winkler co-founded Wonderful with Roey Lalazar in Tel Aviv in 2025. The company now operates from Amsterdam.
It raised more than $800 million in under two years, reaching a $5 billion valuation.
Read the full story · 3 min readWonderful Raises $550M at $5B, Doubling Its Valuation in Six Months→Lessons for founders
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Services can be a wedge for software
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Get to production fast
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