Sophie
Defauw

Founder. Athlete. Writer. Events builder. Anthropologist. Building at the edge of bodies, data, and designed environments.

Hi, I'm Sophie. Colombian-Belgian. Born in 2000. Homeschooled. University at 13. Professor at 22. World Top 50 windsurfer. Published author in Philosophy and Biomechanics. Patent holder. Serial founder.  Right now I'm running Open Circuit Media, hosting AI developer labs in 20 cities across 4 continents. Before that I scaled a startup to 19 countries, sold another one, ran the marketing that got us on national TV and retweeted by Elon Musk, competed internationally as a pro windsurfer, worked at the intersection of embodied research and emerging technology, using biological systems, physical space, and language as primary materials. My practice spans wearable hardware, bio-AI infrastructure, published philosophy, arts, construction robotics and anthropological research. In one line, I  build things: companies, events, communities, and occasionally tunnel boring machines.