Question 1

Who is Geart Ferhati?

Accepted Answer

Geart Ferhati is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Entrepreneurs First (The Bridge program) in San Francisco. Born in Tirana, Albania, he taught himself to code at 11, founded the student voting platform I-VOTE at 15 (acquired by the Council of Europe), co-founded the AI learning platform Suapr at 17 (57,000 users), and worked as AI Automation Engineer at UVC Partners, a B2B venture fund in Munich, while studying at the Technical University of Munich.

Question 2

What is Geart Ferhati doing now?

Accepted Answer

He is in San Francisco as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Entrepreneurs First through its The Bridge program, building his next company.

Question 3

What is I-VOTE?

Accepted Answer

I-VOTE is a digital voting platform for student government elections founded by Geart Ferhati in 2022 in Tirana. It was the first digital student voting platform in South-East Europe, reached 30,000 users across 85 schools within eight months, and was acquired by the Council of Europe in 2023.

Question 4

What is Suapr?

Accepted Answer

Suapr is an AI-powered learning platform co-founded by Geart Ferhati in 2023. It grew to 57,000 users across three countries with a team of eight, and its research on making learning as engaging as social media secured 35,000 euros in government funding.

Question 5

What did Geart Ferhati do at UVC Partners?

Accepted Answer

At UVC Partners, a B2B venture capital fund in Munich, he built the AI and data infrastructure behind the Value Creation and investment teams: production AI agents and automations used daily, with a team efficiency gain of roughly 75 percent.

Question 6

What awards has Geart Ferhati won?

Accepted Answer

HackaTUM 2025 Reply Challenge winner (1,000+ participants); Top 10 Global Startups at Get in the Ring 2024; Top 5 Western Balkans Startups 2025; Top 5 Startups at the Keiretsu Forum Angel Network 2024; first place at the International Python Coding Contest 2023.