Daan Ferdinandusse
Daan Ferdinandusse
Founder at Sartor | Building the AI infrastructure for creator-led fashion brands 🎨🤖
Projects
Ideas brought to life. A look at the products, companies, and creative works built from the ground up.
Sartor (Founder & CTO)
Founder and CTO of Sartor, a fashion-tech startup building AI tools for influencers to launch their own fashion brands from a reference image; incorporated in the U.S. and positioned to tap creator-led apparel commerce.
EagleEye (Earlybird VC) - Startup sourcing engine
Built EagleEye, an AI-powered startup screening and sourcing engine for Earlybird VC. Reported to be the firm's primary source of active deal flow and has assessed millions of companies/founders.
Supply-chain forecasting at Stemly
Developed deep-learning models that predict full distributions of potential supply-chain scenarios (not just point forecasts) to optimize inventory, warehousing, and transportation costs for Stemly (B2B supply chain automation).
Calibrating probabilistic hierarchical forecasts with conformal predictions (Master's thesis / ICML DFUQ workshop)
Master's research applying conformal prediction to probabilistic hierarchical forecasting. Presented at the Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification workshop at ICML 2022.
In the Spotlight
A collection of articles, interviews, and viral content where achievements have been shared.
Recognitions
Formal validation from the top. A showcase of official awards, grants, and government acknowledgements.
ICML 2022 — Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification workshop (presentation)
June 2022Presented master's work 'Calibrating probabilistic hierarchical forecasts with conformal predictions' at the DFUQ workshop associated with ICML 2022.
Entrepreneur First — Founder in Residence / Cohort (selected)
Oct 2024 - May 2025Selected to Entrepreneur First (EF) as Founder in Residence / cohort participant (Winter '24 cohort referenced in posts), which led to co-founding Sartor.
Work Experience
Key roles that defined the journey.
Founder & CTO
Jan 2025 - PresentLeading product and engineering to build AI infrastructure for creator-led fashion brands; focusing on enabling influencers to launch private-label apparel from reference images and automating manufacturing/supply-chain workflows.
Founder in Residence
Oct 2024 - May 2025Participant in EF's founder program (Winter '24 cohort), which accelerated company formation and fundraising activities.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Jan 2024 - Sep 2024Built EagleEye, an AI-powered startup screening engine that became a principal source of dealflow for Earlybird; responsibilities included large-scale data collection, model development, and production deployment.
Machine Learning Engineer
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022Developed probabilistic forecasting and optimization models for supply-chain use cases; work led to research presented at ICML DFUQ workshop.
Guest Lecturer
Jun 2022Delivered an introduction to AI as part of a computational thinking class.
Guest Lecturer
Mar 2022Presented conformal prediction techniques for time-series forecasting in an applied data-science class.
Treasurer of Introduction Committee
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020Organized a major student event (week-long) and managed finance/operations during a period of COVID restrictions.
Croupier
Dec 2016 - Mar 2019Managed casino tables and entertainment events; often team lead for events.
Membership
Affiliations and memberships in prestigious organizations and communities.
Selected participant in Entrepreneur First's founder program (Winter cohort), which led to co-founding Sartor.
Education
Academic foundation and learning journey.
Universiteit van Amsterdam
2020 - 2022Master of Science (MSc), Artificial Intelligence
Master's research focused on probabilistic forecasting and conformal prediction; work presented at ICML DFUQ workshop.
Universiteit van Amsterdam
2016 - 2020 (approx.)Bachelor of Science (BSc), Artificial Intelligence
Undergraduate degree in Artificial Intelligence (LinkedIn lists BSc and MSc in AI).
Goois Lyceum
2009 - 2015Technasium - VWO (secondary education)
Secondary education in the Netherlands.
Socials
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