Angelica Iacovelli
CEO @Nucleo (YC F25) | Ex @Stanford, @IIT Madras, @McKinsey (QuantumBlack) | Forbes 30 Under 30
Experience
Career
2025Nucleo (YC F25)
Co-founderCEO, Co-founder · 2025 – Present
2024Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Guest Lecturer · 2024 – 2025
2021NECSTLab
Researcher · Milan, Lombardy, Italy · 2021 – 2024
2023QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey
Data Scientist · Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain · 2023
2023McKinsey & Company
Data Scientist · Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain · 2023
2021Human Vs Machine
Junior Account Manager · Milano, Lombardia, Italia · 2021
Bio
Angelica Iacovelli is the CEO and co-founder of Nucleo. Previously, she was a researcher at Stanford University, where she worked on cardiovascular modeling, simulating blood flow dynamics using GNNs, LSTMs, and Transformers. The models are now part of NVIDIA’s scientific libraries. She holds BS+MS in Mathematical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and completed a research exchange at IIT Madras.