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Ndea’s About page lists Mike Knoop under “Founders”, and François Chollet’s post of 15 January 2025 names him as Chollet’s partner in starting Ndea.

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What it connects

Mike Knoop → co-founded → Ndea

Where it appears

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Claim and evidence

Mike Knoopco-founded ↓Ndea

Machine-checkedStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 2 sources

Date: Date unknown

Scope and limitsA company description of its founders; it gives no founding date for the person.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

About Ndea

Ndea · Publication date unknown

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Paraphrase

The About page lists Mike Knoop second under the heading Founders.

Location in source “Founders” heading, second entry

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Ndea
Version: Undated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 23f6c2da8f594ef90154ab4cf36714e5c00a9d4a1e29e5db85b7fef07cb90323) directly from the publisher. Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Undated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Ndea, “About Ndea”.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “Mike Knoop” matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L222) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

François Chollet post on X, 15 January 2025

X · 2025-01-15

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Paraphrase

Chollet writes that he is joining forces with @mikeknoop to start Ndea.

Location in source Post, first sentence

How it was read Post text read through X’s syndication endpoint, which can truncate long notes

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: François Chollet
Version: Dated post, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 bd0951990140812a725490827d2b90d7b92a87b55e234d0fe15daed6141ef0c1) through X’s own syndication endpoint for the post’s text, which truncates long notes.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: François Chollet, “François Chollet post on X, 15 January 2025”, 2025-01-15.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “to start Ndea” matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read through X’s own syndication endpoint for the post’s text, which truncates long notes. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L222) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Machine-checked. Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. Participation in founding an organisation or research team. Neither sole founding nor legal incorporation is implied.

Date. Undated page retrieved on 2026-10-29; the launch post is dated 15 January 2025.

Record ID lg2-nl-knoop-ndea-founder