Youssef Rizk

Youssef Rizk is the London-based co-founder of Wondercraft, an artificial intelligence audio and podcast creation platform. He holds a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Imperial College London and subsequently spent four years as a Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Palantir. During his tenure at Palantir, Rizk led the software company's startup practice and met his future Wondercraft co-founder, Dimitris Nikolaou. The duo launched Wondercraft as part of Y Combinator's Summer 2022 startup cohort and later secured a $3 million seed funding round in January 2023 backed by Will Ventures and Eleven Labs. The eight-employee enterprise has raised a total of $3.5 million in capital to date to develop its multilingual audio editing technology. Rizk currently focuses on expanding generative AI applications for commercial spoken content, digital advertising, and automated podcast production.