# Milan Stankovic

> Milan Stankovic is the Co-founder and CTO of Leadbay, a YC F25 startup focused on AI models for B2B sales.

Person page on Leadbay: https://mad-max.leadbay.ai/person/milan-stankovic--leadbay.ai · loaded 2026-10-29

## At a glance

- Role: Co-founder & CTO
- Company: [Leadbay](https://mad-max.leadbay.ai/company/leadbay.ai.md)
- Based in: San Francisco, California, United States
- Education: Sorbonne University
- Previously: Technical Co-founder | Chief Product Officer | Chief Technology Officer, blindnet
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milanstankovic
- GitHub: https://github.com/Milan-Stankovic
- YouTube: https://youtube.com/@MILANSTANKOVICOFFICIAL

Work email and direct phone come with a Leadbay account: https://wow.leadbay.ai/?register=true

## Working on now

- Building Leadbay’s AI system for finding and qualifying hard-to-detect, low-data SMB prospects for B2B sales teams.
- Developing agentic sales-and-marketing blocks that work in Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot, including Leadbay’s MCP interface and adaptive qualification workflows.
- Advancing models that infer useful lead attributes from sparse company information, CRM history and public web data.
- Expanding beyond the company’s initial France/US focus; in an October 2025 post he said Leadbay was opening its app to US users after gaining users in France.
- Improving integrations with customer data, expanding market/country data, and making prospect discovery more seamless through feeds and prompts.
- In the June 2025 keynote, he presented Lucid-Sea-V1, a hybrid text/tabular model, plus web research, email drafting, talking points, mobile notes and AI summaries for field sales.

From: [Qualified leads for agentic workflows](https://leadbay.ai/), [Leadbay: Qualified leads for agentic workflows. | Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/leadbay), [Introducing Leadbay first model and Early Results](https://leadbay.ai/blog/introducing-leadbay-first-model-and-early-results-leadbay-compass), [Milan Stankovic](https://linkedin.com/in/milanstankovic), [🇫🇷 Leadbay Keynote 2: Bienvenue à l’ère de la prospection prédictive. - My Framer Site](https://www.leadbay.ai/blog/leadbay-keynote-2-bienvenue-%C3%A0-l-%C3%A8re-de-la-prospection-pr%C3%A9dictive), [🇺🇸 Leadbay Keynote 1: AI Model for B2B Sales unveiled](https://leadbay.ai/blog/leadbay-keynote-1-ai-model-for-b2b-sales-unveiled)

## Signals: what Milan did lately

- 2026-09-04 · Funding round: Leadbay's Ludovic Granger on Building AI That Finds the Leads Everyone Else Misses - INSART Leadbay's $4.3M Seed Round: AI for SMB Lead Generation ([insart.com](https://insart.com/leadbay-s-ludovic-granger-on-building-ai-that-finds-the-leads-everyone-else-misses/))
- 2026-07-25 · Product launch: Leadbay MCP Sales Intelligence Platform Boosts Leads 10x ([zerogtalent.com](https://zerogtalent.com/blog/leadbay-s-4-3m-seed-fuels-mcp-native-ai-lead-qualification-for-enterprise-sales-teams))
- 2026-06-01 · Press mention: 3 questions (au moins) à MILAN STANKOVIC (Co-fondateur et CTO de Leadbay) sur la prise décision, individuelle ou collective, à l’ère de l’IA. - ([decaiders.com](https://www.decaiders.com/index.php/2026/06/01/3-questions-au-moins-a-milan-stankovic-leadbay-sur-la-prise-decision-individuelle-ou-collective-a-lere-de-lia/))
- 2026-05-21 · Press mention: Cofondée par un Loir-et-Chérien, la start-up Leadbay franchit un cap ([lanouvellerepublique.fr](https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/blois/cofondee-par-un-loir-et-cherien-la-start-up-leadbay-franchit-un-cap-1779371008))
- 2026-05-20 · LinkedIn post: 🚀 Bright Ventures x Leadbay (YC F25)! ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bright-data_leadbat-announcement-activity-7462872340104667136-kQxr))
- 2026-05-19 · Press mention: How Leadbay Is Bringing ChatGPT-Style Growth Tactics to Enterprise Software ([frenchtechjournal.com](https://www.frenchtechjournal.com/how-leadbay-is-bringing-chatgpt-style-growth-tactics-to-enterprise-software/))
- 2026-05-19 · Funding round: Passee par y combinator leadbay leve 43 millions de dollars pour rendre visibles les entreprises que linkedin ignore ([maddyness.com](https://www.maddyness.com/2026/05/19/passee-par-y-combinator-leadbay-leve-43-millions-de-dollars-pour-rendre-visibles-les-entreprises-que-linkedin-ignore/), [frenchweb.fr](https://www.frenchweb.fr/avec-38-millions-deuros-leadbay-veut-reinventer-la-sales-intelligence-avec-ses-modeles-dinference/461873), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stationf_congratulations-to-leadbay-yc-f25-who-just-activity-7462412345886216193-4jPO))
- 2026-03-26 · Funding round: We’re so lucky to have inspiring people like Mala as an investor in Leadbay (YC F25). Is there a greater privilege than having someone who has fought hard against the odds in … ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/milanstankovic_were-so-lucky-to-have-inspiring-people-like-activity-7442786127163559936-NDRu))
- 2026-02-09 · Product launch: Leadbay AI Launches: 3x more SMBs than Linkedin. Qualify the 99% you miss with Clay. ([fondo.com](https://fondo.com/blog/leadbay-ai-launches))
- 2026-01-29 · LinkedIn post: When reality beats your wildest fantasy, you know you have to start dreaming bigger. Next goal: take a photo of Elon Musk using Leadbay (YC F25) ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/milanstankovic_when-reality-beats-your-wildest-fantasy-activity-7422622019692920832-L_9l))
- 2025-12-05 · LinkedIn post: Leadbay (YC F25) co-founders, Milan Stankovic & Ludovic Granger pitched at the 2025 Y Combinator demo day this week, in San Francisco. ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/leadbay_leadbay-yc-f25-co-founders-milan-stankovic-activity-7402591104258420736-KBAO))
- 2025-11-20 · LinkedIn post: Do things that don't scale ✅ ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/milanstankovic_do-things-that-dont-scale-activity-7397401026569342977-f_62))

## Career

- Co-founder & CTO, Leadbay (2023-08 – now)
- Technical Co-founder | Chief Product Officer | Chief Technology Officer, blindnet (2020-07 – 2023-01)
- Co-Founder, starmax capital (2020-03 – now)
- Founder & CEO, Sépage (2013-01 – 2020-01)
- Chief Science Officer, Hypios (2009-10 – 2013-01)

## Summary

Milan Stankovic is the Co-founder and CTO of Leadbay, a YC F25 startup focused on AI models for B2B sales [1][2][3]. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Sorbonne University, where he specialized in semantic and social web technologies [4][3]. Previously, he founded the AI travel startup Sépage, which was acquired in 2017, and co-founded the privacy technology startup Blindnet [1][4]. Stankovic is an accomplished researcher with over 60 scientific publications in AI and knowledge graphs [1][5]. He focuses on building technology that makes computers better companions to humans [6][2].

[1]: https://www.milstan.net/bio.html "Milan Stankovic"
[2]: https://linkedin.com/in/milanstankovic "Milan Stankovic"
[3]: https://stationf.co/news/founders-spring2024 "STATION F Founders Program sees big jump in repeat founders | STATION F"
[4]: https://milstan.net/files/cv.pdf "Milan Stankovic, PhD"
[5]: https://ludogranger.substack.com/p/leadbay-manifesto "Manifesto: Leadbay removes the guesswork from B2B Sales."
[6]: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/leadbay "Leadbay: Qualified leads for agentic workflows. | Y Combinator"
[7]: https://milstan.net/business.html "Milan Stankovic"
[8]: https://leadbay.ai/blog/leadbay-keynote-1-ai-model-for-b2b-sales-unveiled "🇺🇸 Leadbay Keynote 1: AI Model for B2B Sales unveiled"

## Sources

- [Qualified leads for agentic workflows](https://leadbay.ai/)
- [Introducing Leadbay first model and Early Results](https://leadbay.ai/blog/introducing-leadbay-first-model-and-early-results-leadbay-compass)
- [🇫🇷 Leadbay Keynote 2: Bienvenue à l’ère de la prospection prédictive. - My Framer Site](https://www.leadbay.ai/blog/leadbay-keynote-2-bienvenue-%C3%A0-l-%C3%A8re-de-la-prospection-pr%C3%A9dictive)
- [Milan Stankovic](https://milstan.net/bio.html)