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    Florin Badita

    GIS & Data Mining Specialist, Entrepreneur, Activist

    Florin Badita, CEO of Scrape The World

    Florin Badita is a Romanian data expert and activist who founded the anti-corruption movement "Corruption Kills" after the deadly 2015 Colectiv nightclub fire in Bucharest.1 He has over a decade of experience in web scraping and data mining.3

    Some key facts about Florin Badita:

    • He is the CEO of Scrape The World, a company at the forefront of the data revolution that transforms how businesses access and utilize data.2
    • In 2018, at just 30 years old, Badita was named European Personality of the Year for founding the "Corruption Kills" movement.14
    • The movement applies public pressure on the Romanian government to fight corruption, which Badita believes was a factor in the Colectiv fire tragedy.1
    • Despite his large online following, Badita has no ambitions to become a politician himself, preferring to remain an outside activist representing the interests of the public.1
    • He has organized conferences to train Romanian civic activists in practical skills like filing Freedom of Information requests to investigate corruption.1

    Florin Badita's LinkedIn username is baditaflorin.3

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    Experience

    VC Labs Cohort 12 at VC Lab (Sep 2023 - Present)
    Founder of Scrape The World (Jan 2023 - Present), Corruption Kills (Nov 2015 - Present), Nefiresc (Jan 2015 - Present)

    Education

    Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Founder University (2022 - 2023), Psychology at Universitatea „Titu Maiorescu” (2007 - 2010), Startup at Draper University (2010)

    Location

    San Francisco Bay Area