Building the infrastructure
the world forgot to build.
The Surpluss was founded on a single conviction: that trillions in underutilised resources aren't a market failure, they're an intelligence failure. We're building the system to fix it.
The world's most expensive resource
is the one already paid for but sitting idle.
Across every industry, organisations hold vast quantities of underutilised assets, materials, equipment, space, capacity, and byproducts, invisible to anyone who could use them. The cost isn't just financial. It's environmental, strategic, and systemic.
Environmental Cost
Every resource left idle forces virgin extraction elsewhere, accelerating deforestation, mining runoff, and carbon-intensive manufacturing. The circular economy isn't just an ideal; it's an emissions strategy hiding in plain sight.
2.1 billion tonnes of secondary materials go unrecovered annually
Source: Circle Economy, Circularity Gap Report 2023
Market Security
Supply chain disruptions now cost the global economy $1.6T per year. Organisations that can't see their own surplus are structurally fragile, dependent on volatile external markets for resources they already possess.
62% of procurement leaders cite visibility as their #1 risk factor
Source: Interos Annual Resilience Report 2023; Deloitte Global CPO Survey 2023
Economic Deadweight
Idle assets aren't free to hold. Storage, depreciation, insurance, and opportunity cost compound silently. For a mid-size manufacturer, underutilised inventory alone can represent 8–12% of annual operating costs.
The average enterprise writes off $27M in stranded assets per year
Source: The Surpluss internal data, 2024–2026
Rana Hajirasouli
Founder & Chief Executive, The Surpluss
PhD Researcher, University of Cambridge
Resource risk is the last unpriced risk on the corporate balance sheet.
Every serious business now manages currency risk, supply risk and cyber risk. Resource risk, the cost of not knowing what you own, where it sits, and what it's worth, remains unpriced. The Surpluss exists to price it, before the market does it for you.
We envision a world where nothing of value sits idle, where every resource, everywhere, flows to where it's needed most. A future where organisations don't just consume, but circulate, creating abundance from what already exists. The Surpluss was born from a simple conviction: the world doesn't have a scarcity problem, it has a coordination problem. Our mission is to build the intelligence layer that connects surplus to demand across every organisation, industry, and border, turning what's overlooked into what's possible, and proving that the most sustainable resource is the one already here.
Meet the Team
Behind the Vision
From founders to advisors, every member brings deep expertise and a shared conviction that underutilised resources are a solvable problem.
Rana Hajirasouli
CEO
Alexander Moldow
CSO
Princess Sweena Villaluz
CIO
Khalisah Stevens
COO
Vinay Kumar
CFO
Firas Al Jabi
CSCO
Elena Perez Celis
Head of Commercial Strategy, UK
Sania Mahmood
CCIO
Timmy de la Cruz
Senior Advisor, South East Asia
Josh Buhat
Data AnalyticsTechnology Team
Ertan Gurses
CTO / Full Stack
Yigit Ulken
AI Engineer
Ismail Korkmaz
AI Engineer
Murat Ozdemir
Full Stack Engineer
Ilayda Korkmaz
UI/UX Designer
Gamze Koker
Designer
Melih Ucar
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Josh Sturgeon
Advisory, GTM Engineering
Yiannis Pavlidis
Advisory, PhD AI/ML & Statistical Science
Dr. Alexander V. Mantzaris
Advisory, PhD AI/ML & Statistical Science
Kriton Danopoulos
Advisory, Senior CybersecurityThe team behind The Surpluss has delivered
production systems for the world's largest brands.
From multi-billion-dollar infrastructure programmes to ASEAN's largest SME network, our engineers and designers have shipped the systems that move people, goods, energy, and capital, at planetary scale.
Bechtel
Muscat International Airport, Oman
One of the world's largest engineering, construction & project management firms, with 160+ years of landmark infrastructure delivery across 160 countries. Our team contributed to the Muscat International Airport expansion, delivering workforce coordination systems, logistics tracking, and resource allocation tools that supported thousands of on-site personnel across multi-phase construction.
Logistics, workforce coordination & resource allocation systems
Maybank
ASEAN's leading banking group, serving 800,000+ SME clients across the region.
Internal cluster platform for SME exchange & visibility
Nestlé
World's largest food & beverage company, 178 countries, 2,000+ brands.
Business intelligence & enterprise data pipelines
Deliveroo
UK's leading food delivery platform, with 176K+ restaurant partners across 10+ markets.
Smart driver app & delivery orchestration
Getir
Turkish ultrafast grocery delivery, operated across 9 countries.
Digital marketplace performance & UX
Enerjisa
Turkey's largest energy company, electricity distribution & retail.
Company control portal & reporting
WiseStella
Maritime compliance software for ship & seamen management (SIRE 2.0, TMSA 3).
Ship & seamen control platform
Flowspace
UK workspace booking platform, meeting rooms, offices, co-working spaces.
End-to-end workspace booking platform
Go See The City
AI-powered food redirection platform, partnered with stadiums & venues.
Food redirection platform
Via Automobile
French multi-brand used-car dealership network, 1,600+ vehicles across concessions.
Vehicle sales & inventory platform
& many more
100+ projects delivered across fintech, logistics, energy, maritime, and circular economy.
Board of Advisors
Strategic guidance from leaders who've shaped industries, policy, and the circular economy at the highest levels.
Dimitris Terzis
PhD / Advisory, CTOEnterprise Technology
Dr. Per Møller
Senior Symbiosis DeveloperKalundborg Symbiosis
Andrea Prazakova
Senior Vice President, Mastercard Foundry & ESG, EEMEAInnovation & ESG
Nadia Boumeziout
Head of Sustainability & Information GovernanceSustainability & Insurance
Tom van Hooijdonk
Commercial Advisor, Shell, QatarCommercial & Supply Chain
Cory Milam
Chief Technology Officer, The Rockefeller FoundationTechnology & Innovation
Lance Pierce
Chief Executive Officer, NetHopeNonprofit Technology & Aid
Michael Drummond
Human Capital Leader, Emirates Global AluminiumHuman Capital & LeadershipThese are the hard problems we wake up to solve, the ones that keep this team sharp and the platform evolving.
Classifying 50,000+ material categories without human bottlenecks
AI + ProductActivating surplus across organisations without exposing proprietary data
Engineering + PrivacyBehavioural design, driving circular impact with audit-grade accuracy
Sustainability + DesignBuilding new APIs across different types of legacy software
Engineering + ProductOur work extends beyond the product, into active research, experimental tools, and open knowledge that pushes the boundaries of resource intelligence.
Resource Intelligence Lab
Our dedicated research arm exploring the frontiers of resource classification, predictive surplus modelling, and cross-industry material flow analysis.
The Symbiosis Game
A strategic simulation where players manage industrial ecosystems, turning one facility's by-products into another's feedstock.
Fundamentally new approaches to problems the industry has accepted as unsolvable.
Semantic Material Graphs
A novel knowledge architecture mapping relationships between 50,000+ material categories, enabling machines to reason about substitutability and compatibility.
Privacy-Preserving Activation
Federated intelligence that activates surplus across organisations without either party revealing proprietary inventory data.
Autonomous Agent Orchestration
12 specialised AI agents that collaborate, debate, and synthesise decisions, mimicking how expert procurement teams actually think.