Overview
Brian O'Shea is based in Berlin, where he co-founded Decidius in April 2026. Since September 2025 he has also been a venture builder at Carbon13.
From January 2024 to October 2025 he ran Skyphae, which he founded, and between June 2024 and January 2025 he worked as a farm hand at Microcosmo. He joined TIER Mobility in February 2022 as lead mapper and was operations manager there from August 2022 until January 2024. Earlier he was a Youthwise member at the OECD, a clerical officer at the Sports Surgery Clinic, an intern at Gore & Grimes and a legal intern at DORDA Rechtsanwälte GmbH. He founded the Xylem Foundation in 2017, and before that worked as a marketing and launch assistant at Yohgo, a business development intern at FlexHuddle and a referee for the Irish Tag Rugby Association.
O'Shea studied law with economics at University College Dublin, including an Erasmus period at the University of Vienna, and took a Euromaster in urban studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, with study at the University of Vienna, the University of Copenhagen and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He also attended a Sciences Po summer school on the French language track.
Career history
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- Two days left to apply for the Carbon13 climate venture builder Cambridge cohort 11. I simply cannot recommend it enough. On the 21st of July last year I got an email that has quite honestly changed my life. Simon Dierks, telling me I'd got a place on the Carbon13 venture builder in Berlin. I'd spent the previous 18 months trying to get a startup off the ground and had little to show for it beyond hard-won lessons and a lengthy list of emails telling me "better luck next time" or "it's not for us". Nothing was guaranteed by that
- Is bigger always better? 50 million images. 500 million images. 5 billion images. Most people judge a computer vision model by how many images it has seen. The rise of generative models may have coloured many people’s view of what an adequate data set is. Adequacy is defined by model performance in practice, not by training volume. For generative models, that kind of scale might make sense (technically speaking at least). They want to see everything, because they might be asked to create anything. Recognition and semantic models
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- A peek into the future Decidius wants to build Last week, Anne Paduart and I attended the Flemish Government's ZIN complex in Brussels to pitch Decidius to Vlaio. While we were there, Anne pointed out that the building itself is one of the foremost examples of reuse in all of Europe. Ninety-five percent of the original towers' materials were preserved, reused, or recycled (63% onsite reuse, full breakdown in comments), thirty thousand tonnes of concrete aggregate among them, and ninety-five percent of the new office materials
- Grins and grey skies were the order of the day as I arrived into Liège-Guillemins station early on Friday morning (always an honourable mention on my list of favourite train stations in Europe). Dr. Anne Paduart and I were invited to present at the URMIBALI seminar organised and hosted by the University of Liège on the subject of Urban Mining and the development of novel methods to enable material reuse in Liege’s traditional buildings. A word of thanks to Sophie Trachte, Ophélie Noël and all of the organisers for a brilliant
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