Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based CTO’ operating in the Artificial Intelligence space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Brien Colwell
CTO & Co-Founder of HeadSpin
Brien previously founded YC-backed Nextop. He worked on mobile architecture at Quora and started and led the Android team through many international launches. He was also an early engineer at Palantir and a lead engineer at a number of data and mobile startups.
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About HeadSpin: HeadSpin is a developer of a digital experience intelligence platform used to provide flawless digital experiences.
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Krishnendu Chaudhury
Co-Founder and CTO of Drishti
Technology leader (deep learning, computer vision), inventor and author. Currently the CTO-cofounder of Drishti Technologies Palo Alto, which applies AI to manufacturing. Author of the book “Mathematics and Architectures of Deep Learning”, Manning Publications, New York. Several dozens of patents and publications in leading journals and conferences of the world.
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About Drishti: Drishti is a provider of AI-powered video analytics technology that gives visibility and insights for manual assembly line improvement.
Varun Kacholia
CTO and Co-Founder of Eightfold
Varun Kacholia is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Eightfold.
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About Eightfold: Eightfold is a developer of a talent intelligence platform used to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
Matthew Clower
Chief Technology Officer of Treasure Financial
Matthew Clower is the chief technology officer of Treasure Financial.
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About Treasure Financial: Using automation and machine learning to help companies identify, manage and monetize their idle cash
Cameron Marlow
CTO at Apella Technology of Apella Technology
Cameron Marlow is a researcher at [Stanford University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stanford-university). He founded and led the data science team at Facebook, which was responsible for applied research, product optimization, and user behavioral modeling within the company. Marlow received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Chicago. After completing his Ph.D., Marlow joined Yahoo Research where he studied social incentives, community evolution and social search in emerging applications such as Flickr, del.icio.us, and Last.fm. He was also a research assistant at the University of Chicago and developer at Lafayette Project.
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About Apella Technology, Physera: Apella Technology is an AI startup that brings modern engineering to improve surgery.
Roopak Gupta
Chief Technology Officer of Eskalera
Roopak Gupta is an industry veteran of 20+ years who has built innovative, highly scalable and best-in-class Big data and Machine learning technologies at startups as well as Fortune 500 companies across multiple verticals. Before Eskalera, Roopak was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and VP of Applications and Data at Krux, where he led the team responsible for the development and delivery of all of Krux’s products. Prior to that, Roopak led inventory management and price optimization engineering teams at Microsoft, having joined via Rapt acquisition. Roopak has a Computer Science and Engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi with a minor in Management.
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About Eskalera: Eskalera improves employee engagement, productivity, and growth to help large and medium-sized companies transform their HR operations.
Amine Anoun
Co-Founder & CTO of Evisort
Amine Anoun is the co-founder and CTO of Evisort. Prior to that, he served as a data scientist at Uber.
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About Evisort: Evisort is an AI-powered contract management platform that provides visibility into any document.
Simon Williams
CTO of Lemonaid Health
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About Lemonaid Health: Lemonaid Health is a telemedicine platform that uses technology to change the way people interact with health care.
Ed Abbo
President and CTO of C3 AI
Ed Abbo is President and Chief Technology Officer at C3.ai, which provides an AI and IoT software platform-as-a-service to power enterprise digital transformations. Mr. Abbo leads C3.ai’s strategy and execution, including technology direction, innovation, and customer success. Prior to C3.ai, Mr. Abbo was Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for its application products. Prior to joining Oracle in 2006, he was Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer for Siebel Systems.
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About C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Tim Stonehocker
CTO of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Vikesh Khanna
CTO & Co-founder of Ambient.ai
CTO & co-founder
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About Ambient.ai: Ambient.ai integrates computer vision intelligence and camera infrastructure to sensor and prevent security incidents.
Daniel Rasmuson
Co-founder & CTO of Labelbox
Dan Rasmuson is the Co-Founder and CTO of Labelbox, the leading training data management software company that is accelerating global access to artificial intelligence. He was previously an Engineering Manager at DroneDeploy where he started and grew their platform to more than 100 integrations. These integrations are now providing access to machine learning for aerial imagery all of the world. Dan is a technologist recognized in Forbes 30 under 30 and a youth national chess and ultimate frisbee champion.
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About Labelbox: Labelbox is a collaborative data training platform that creates and manages labeled data for machine learning applications.
Joshua Augustin
Chief Technology Officer of Tempo
Joshua Augustin is the CTO of Tempo.
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About Tempo: Tempo is a home fitness platform, combining equipment, training guidance, and social motivation with 3D sensors and artificial intelligence.
Paulo Marques
Founding Partner and CTO of Feedzai
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About Carnegie Mellon University, Feedzai, Forbes Technology Council: Feedzai develops risk management tools to prevent fraud and money laundering in transactions.
Raj Neervannan
Chief Technology Officer of AlphaSense
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About AlphaSense: AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence allowing professionals to make critical decisions.
Shawn Lewis
Founder, CTO of Weights & Biases
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About Weights & Biases: Weights & Biases provides a developer-first MLOps platform that offers performance visualization tools for machine learning.
Justin White
CTO and Co-Founder of Notable
Justine White is the Co-Founder & CTO at Notable.
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About Notable: Notable is an AI-powered health start-up that automates and digitizes every physician-patient interaction.
Hakan Gultekin
Co-Founder and CTO of Chooch AI
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About Chooch AI: The enterprise AI platform for quickly developing and deploying world-class computer vision solutions.
Jonathan Chen
CTO & Co-Founder of Pathover
Co-Founder of FiscalNote, Inc., and Pathover. Inc. Specialized in AI & ML. Inc. 30 Under 30. D.C. 25 Under 25. Valedictorian University of Maryland, College Park.
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About FiscalNote, FiscalNote, Pathover: Pathover is an API-based intelligent optimization and logistics solution for the last mile.
Anurag Kanungo
Co-Founder and CTO of Voxel
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About Sherbit, Voxel: Voxel uses computer vision and AI to enable security cameras to automatically identify hazards and high-risk activities in real-time,.
Tudor Achim
CTO of Helm.ai
Tudor Achim is the Chief Technology Officer of Helm.ai.
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About Helm.ai: Helm.ai is a scalable artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicle.
Kaushik Pendurthi
Co-founder, CTO of JOBOX.ai
Kaushik graduated with his masters in computer science from NYUs Courant Institute and has worked for BeWo and Nokia. In 2012 Kaushik was the global champion for the BeMyApp hackathon.
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About JOBOX.ai: JOBOX.ai is a AI startup disrupting the on-demand economy. Jobox officially launched from stealth mode in April 2022.
David P. Mariani
Chief Technology Officer, Founder of AtScale
Dave Mariani is one of the co-founders of AtScale and is the VP of Technology. Prior to AtScale,he was VP of Engineering at Klout & at Yahoo! where he built the world’s largest multi-dimensional cube for BI on Hadoop. Mariani is a Big Data visionary & serial entrepreneur.
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About AtScale: AtScale is an intelligent data virtualization company that provides a single, secured, and governed workspace for distributed data.
Robin Ducot
CTO of Momentive
Robin joined SurveyMonkey in October 2017. She leads the company’s engineering function and works closely with product, design, and data teams to help define our technical product vision. Previously, Robin spent five years as Senior Vice President of Product Engineering at DocuSign where she scaled the engineering team into a high-velocity streamlined organization using scaled agile framework, moved the product to a multi-product platform with a service-oriented architecture, and shifted the organization to a continuous integration delivery model. Prior to that, she was the Vice President of Engineering at Eventbrite responsible for delivery of their platform and building out a complete engineering organization with extremely high staffing standards. Robin earned her BS in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts, Boston.
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About Momentive: SurveyMonkey is an agile experience management company delivering solutions that help leaders make important decisions.
Abraham Bachrach
Founder, CTO of Skydio
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About Skydio: Skydio uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.
Varun Ganapathi
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of AKASA
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About AKASA, Terminal.com: AKASA is an AI-powered automation company for revenue cycle management in healthcare.
Philipp Meisen
CTO & Cofounder of Breinify
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About Breinify, Philipp Meisen (LinkedIn): Predictive Personalization at Scale
Josh Albrecht
CTO of Generally Intelligent
Josh thinks that computers and people are both interesting, so he started an AI recruiting company. He got paid to program video games in high school, published ML / NLP research, and sold a company. He enjoys playing new board games for the first time and can tell you exactly what he was doing during any minute in the past 10 years.
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About Generally Intelligent: Generally Intelligent is an AI research company that works on building human-level general machine intelligence that can learn naturally.
Sowmiya Chocka Narayanan
Co Founder and CTO of Lily AI
Sowmiya Chocka Narayanan currently serves Lily AI as co-founder and CTO. Prior to joining Lily AI, Narayanan was a software engineer designer for Texas Instruments, Informatica, and Yahoo!, and mobile apps Pocket Games and Gem Box.
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About Lily AI: Lily AI is the customer intent platform built to power the present and future of ecommerce.
Matei Zaharia
Co-founder & CTO of Databricks
Matei Zaharia is an assistant professor of computer science at MIT and CTO of Databricks. He started the Spark project at UC Berkeley and continues to serve as its vice president at Apache. Matei also co-started the Apache Mesos project and is a committer on Apache Hadoop. Matei’s research work on datacenter systems was recognized through two Best Paper awards and the 2014 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
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About Databricks, Stanford University, The Apache Software Foundation: Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Mohan Reddy
Cofounder & Founding CTO of Astound
Mohan Reddy is the Co-Founder and Founding CTO at Astound.
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About Astound, FogHorn, FogHorn, SkyHive, Stanford University, The Hive, Vizzario: Astound is an enterprise software company that develops an AI platform for employee service.
Amy Yuan Zaoshi
Chief Technology Officer of Proven Skincare
Amy Yuan Zaoshi co-founded Proven Skincare in 2017, since which she has been serving as its chief technology officer.
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About Proven Skincare: Proven Skincare develops skincare products intended to allow customers to design and personalize products that fit their lifestyles.
John Bruce
Co-Founder & CTO of Vivun
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Hans Lee
CTO and Co-founder of Freedom Robotics
Hans Lee is the CTO and Co-Founder of Freedom Robotics. He is also the Startup advisor, architect, and developer-in-residence at Innovativelee. Hans is a former CEO and CTO (Acquired by Tobii) at Sticky.ai and was Location-Aware API Lead at Fitbit. Mr. Lee graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with a concentration in AI.
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About Freedom Robotics: Freedom Robotics is a software company that creates powerful control and monitoring software for modern robotics companies.
John Wilson
Field CTO of Agari
John Wilson is the Field Chief Technology Officer at Agari, responsible for researching and utilizing the company’s advanced data security insights to drive continuous technology innovation. An esteemed security expert, Wilson is often called upon to assist major organizations in fighting cyber crime. During his career, he assisted Microsoft and the FS-ISAC with taking down the B54 Citadel botnet by providing data related to Citadel botnet infections and acting as a declarant in the civil forfeiture action filed in US District Court.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Sharon Zhang
CTO & Co-Founder of Personal AI
I am a scientist, a creator, and a builder. I believe in data, innovation, and humans. I am passionate about people and about technologies that evolve alongside humanity. I have pursued expertise in artificial intelligence for over the past decade, building NLP products that impact the lives of patients, employees, and everyday people. I strive to build companies that move the world forward – embracing the principles of original thinking and humane AI. And that is why my partners and I are creating Human AI Labs (hu.man.ai).
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About Personal AI: Personal AI is on a mission to organize the human mind and make it interactive and useful.
Rajeev Dadia
Chief Technology Officer of Saama
Saama Technologies‘ Chief Technology Officer, Rajeev Dadia drives the technology roadmap to enhance Saama’s technical edge and improve overall quality through leadership in delivery process and resource management. Previously at Saama, he lead the development of strategies, methodologies, and partnerships that enhance Saama’s solution sets offered during each client engagement. Rajeev focuses on cloud, syndicated data sources, social data, and mobile technologies as it impacts the data and analytics needs of the organization. He has 20 years of successive experience in leadership roles at Saama and at Silicon Graphics (SGI) in Corporate Information Systems. Rajeev has created BI and Analytic strategies for large organizations and managed large-scale deployments of data warehousing, analytics and applied data mining/predictive analytics systems in diverse business environments. He has also been involved in analysis, design and deployment of both B2C and B2B solutions in different vertical industries. In addition, he led the development of a Business Intelligence Center of Excellence operation to provide offshore development capabilities. He earned an M.S. in Computer Science at California State University, Chico.
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About Saama: Saama is the number one AI-powered clinical analytics cloud platform company delivering actionable business insights for life sciences.
Kairui Zeng
CTO of DeepScribe
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About DeepScribe: DeepScribe is an AI-driven platform for medical record-taking.
Xiaodi Hou
Founder & CTO of TuSimple
Dr. Xiaodi Hou co-founded TuSimple in 2015 and serves as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Xiaodi Hou is an internationally renowned expert in artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision. Dr. Xiaodi Hou currently holds 13 patents in the field of autonomous vehicles. In the field of computer vision, Mr. Hou has developed leading theories in computational models for visual saliency. He earned a Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems from the California institute of Technology and holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Dr. Xiaodi Hou has presented at global events such as Web Summit and Nvidia’s GTC conference and has been featured in leading publications such as Wired and Forbes.
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About TuSimple: TuSimple is a self-driving truck company developing technology that allows them to drive from depot-to-depot without human intervention.
Arvind Sundararajan
CTO & Co-Founder of Abacus.AI
Arvind Sundararajan is the CTO and Co-Founder of RealityEngines.AI. Before starting RealityEngines.AI,he was a senior technical lead at Uber’s autonomous vehicles division where he led the Autonomy Systems team, responsible for wide ranging software initiatives across the autonomy stack spanning onboard software, ML, and infrastructure. Previously, he was the CTO and co-founder of Post Intelligence. Before Post Intelligence, he was at Google, where he was the technical lead for AdSense’s machine learning and serving system, and the technical lead for GMail’s backend system (part of the initial launch team). Arvind was the recipient of two founders awards at Google and has a M.S. (CS) degree from Stanford and a B.Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
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About Abacus.AI: Abacus.AI is a cloud services company that helps organizations design, train, and customize machine and deep learning models.
Nicolas Borensztein
Founder & CTO of CrowdAI
Founder at CrowdAI
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About CrowdAI: CrowdAI enables organizations to create and deploy custom models for visual AI and a code-free platform.
Bharath Ramsundar
Co-Founder and CTO of Computable
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About Computable: Computable build a decentralized data marketplace for artificial intelligence applications.
Brad Ito
Co-Founder & CTO of Retina AI
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About Retina AI: Retina uses artificial intelligence to turn enterprise data into insights.
Peter Lee
Co Founder, CTO of GoodTime.io
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About GoodTime.io: GoodTime uses employee data to schedule interviews faster and cheaper for enterprises
Rohan Sathe
Co-Founder & CTO of Nightfall AI
Rohan Sathe is the Co-Founder & CTO of Nightfall.
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About Nightfall AI: Nightfall identifies business-critical data across SaaS, APIs, and data infrastructure so it can be managed and protected.
David Julian
Founder & CTO of NetraDyne
David Julian, co-founder and chief technology officer, leads Netradyne’s long-term technology vision. A 20-year technology R&D veteran, he sees near infinite potential for Computer Vision and Deep Learning to solve things from everyday problems to highly specialized use-cases from automotive, healthcare and energy exploration, to recreation and entertainment. Prior to co-founding Netradyne in 2015, David served as Principal Engineer at Qualcomm, where he was awarded over 100 US patents covering a wide range of technologies during his 12 year tenure at the company. While at Qualcomm, he was also the Project and Systems Engineering Lead of a multidisciplinary team for the company’s ultra low-power and ranging ultra-wideband R&D efforts, taking it from concept to system-on-chip (SOC) prototypes. David was also instrumental in Qualcomm’s Zeroth team achieving best performance on the 2015 NIST TREVID semantic indexing task for video. Before Qualcomm, David co-founded Mountain View Analytics and supported Voyager and Cassini Deep Space programs at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Julian holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University and a master’s of science and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
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About NetraDyne: NetraDyne engages in improving fleet safety through computer vision and in-depth data analysis.
Aaron Kimball
CTO of Zymergen
At Zymergen, Aaron is responsible for building the data architecture to facilitate a robotics-driven approach to genome engineering. Prior to joining Zymergen, Aaron has worked at several big data-oriented startups. He was the first employee at Cloudera, where he helped with a variety of big data challenges. In 2010 Aaron cofounded WibiData, the big data application company. Aaron has been working with the open-source project Apache Hadoop since 2007 and authored Apache Sqoop and MRUnit. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a master’s degree from the University of Washington in computer science.
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About Zymergen: Zymergen is a biotechnology company that specializes in machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence.
Arjun Narang
Co-Founder & CTO of Gatik
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About Gatik: Gatik is developing technology for autonomous light & medium duty trucks for B2B short-haul logistics.
Yun Fu
Co-Founder, CTO of Otter.ai
Yun is CTO and Co-Founder of Otter.ai. Previously, Yun was Head of Infrastructure in Particle Media Inc, Director Engineering in Alohar Mobile, and Principal Engineer in Yahoo. Yun held a number of patents in mobile technologies, distributed systems and information retrieval. Yun has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University.
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About Otter.ai: Otter.ai improves business team productivity by providing an app to capture, share and recall all of your meeting notes.
Robin Singh
CTO of Doxel
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About Doxel: Doxel delivers an AI-powered project controls platform that predicts costly delays and cost overruns on construction projects.
Sriram Chakravarthy
Founder & CTO of Avaamo
Founder and CTO of Avaamo.
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About Avaamo: Avaamo is a deep learning Virtual Assistant Platform for the enterprise.
Naren Thiagarajan
Co-Founder and CTO of FloydHub
Co-Founder / CTO at FloydHub.
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About FloydHub: FloydHub is a deep learning platform for training and deploying your machine learning and AI models in the cloud.
Austin Trombley
CTO of Random Forest Capital
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About Random Forest Capital, SpotOn, Vaultbank: Investing more intelligently in credit via AI and Machine Learning
Victor Shtrom
Founder/CTO of Augmented Radar Imaging
Co-Founder, Chief Wireless Architect at Ruckus Wireless.
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About Augmented Radar Imaging: Augmented Radar Imaging delivers radar and advanced machine learning algorithms to power autonomous vehicles and warehouse robots.
Gary Lerhaupt
Co-Founder & CTO of Clockwise
Gary Lerhaupt is the Co-Founder & CTO at Clockwise.
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About Clockwise: Clockwise is an intelligent calendar system that uses artificial intelligence to help people get a dedicated block of time to be productive.
Luis Dussan
Founder, CTO and President of AEye
Luis Dussan is a co-founder and CEO of AEye.
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About AEye: AEye develops AI-powered LiDAR systems for vehicle autonomy, advanced driver assistance systems, and robotic vision applications.
Rosh Cherian
Co-Founder & CTO of CogniCor
Rosh leads the global technology team at CogniCor and works closely with clients and partners in solution design and architecting. An experienced software engineer, Rosh has over 15 years of experience in developing commercial software products for large enterprises in Europe and India. Prior to co-founding CogniCor, Rosh had worked in software architecting, development and deployment roles with Telefonica, HP, Agilent and Honeywell.
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About CogniCor, Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo: The Leading AI Digital Assistant Platform for Financial Services
Yan Li
Co-founder & CTO of WeRide
Previously worked at Facebook and Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About WeRide: WeRide is a leading Level 4 autonomous driving company to provide safer and more efficient mobility service and solution.
Shadi Saberi
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of iSono Health
Shadi loves solving challenging problems in healthcare that impact lives of so many, especially women. She believes consumer engagement in their own health through accessible and personalized medical technology is key to prevention and early detection. She has over 10 years of experience designing consumer electronic. Before co-founding iSonoHealth, she worked at broadcom and Intel. She has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.
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About iSono Health: iSono Health develops an AI platform for accessible and personalized breast health monitoring
Anna X. Wang
Co-Founder & CTO of Searchlight
Anna X. Wang is the Co-Founder and CTO of Searchlight. She is a former course assistant at Stanford University. Anna holds a master’s degree in computer science.
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About Searchlight: Searchlight is a people-centered Talent Intelligence Platform that helps companies build and retain winning teams.
Dr. Alicia Kavelaars
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of OffWorld
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About Laser Aerospace, OffWorld: OffWorld is developing a learning robotic workforce for heavy industrial jobs on Earth, Moon, asteroids & Mars.
Kelby Green
CTO of VergeSense
Kelby Green is the CTO at VergeSense.
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About VergeSense: VergeSense is the leading workplace analytics platform and provides spatial intelligence to enterprise companies.
Mitchell Nahmias
Co-founder and CTO of Luminous Computing
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About Luminous Computing: Luminous Computing develops photonics chips to handle workloads required by the artificial intelligence industry.
Mehul Shah
Co-founder & CTO of Blueshift
Mr. Mehul Shah co-founded Six Times Seven Inc. in 2009. Mr. Shah worked at Netapp, Kazeon and Kosmix. He is the Executive Director at BlueShift Labs, Inc. He is a Co-inventor of 7 US patents. Mr. Shah is a self-confessed hacker, and was ‘root’ at one of the largest ISPs once upon a time. He is a graduate of USC and University of Pune, India.
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About Blueshift: Blueshift offers the SmartHub CDP, which helps brands deliver relevant and connected experiences across every customer interaction.
Julio Casal
Founder & CTO of 4iQ
Julio Casal is the Founder & CTO at Constella Intelligence.
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About 4iQ, AT&T CyberSecurity, Constella Intelligence, Survela: 4iQ is a Cyber Intelligence company that protects digital identities and investigating threats, adversaries, and fraud.
Vivek Garud
Co-Founder & CTO of Bidgely
Vivek is leading the technology team which is building the biggest and best energy analytics system yet. Prior to Bidgely, Vivek contributed to building voice recognition technology at Microsoft. He has a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from IIT Bombay. Once done solving the worlds energy problems, he fantasizes of becoming a full time musician and doing big things in Bollywood.
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About Bidgely: Bidgely leverages the power of AI to optimize utility customer engagement and is the choice of leading utilities
Niklas Lindstrom
Founder and CTO of unitQ
Niklas Lindstrom is the Founder and CTO at unitQ.
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About unitQ: unitQ is a product quality platform that helps companies drive growth and retention by fixing the right quality issues faster.
Charles A. Taylor
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of HeartFlow
Charles Taylor is a co-founder, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and member of the Board of Directors of HeartFlow Inc. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Surgery at Stanford University with courtesy faculty appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Radiology. He is internationally recognized for the development of computer modeling and imaging techniques for cardiovascular disease research, device design and treatment planning. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. degree in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
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About HeartFlow: HeartFlow is a medical technology company that provides new methods of diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Vikhyat Chaudhry
Co-Founder, CTO and COO of Buzz Solutions
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About Buzz Solutions: Buzz Solutions provides AI-based actionable insights and predictive analytics for asset fault detection and inspection of power lines.
Gabor Angeli
Co-founder and CTO of Eloquent Labs
Gabor Angeli is the Co-founder and CTO at Eloquent Labs.
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About Eloquent Labs: Eloquent Labs supplies artificial intelligence to augment and replace live chat customer support agents at eCommerce companies.
Priyadarshan Kolte
Co-Founder & CTO of Baffle
Priyadarshan Kolte is the CTO at Baffle
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About Baffle: Baffle protects data in the cloud by securing the data analytics pipeline for modern enterprises without any code changes or disruption.
Tao Liu
Co-Founder and CTO of MioTech
Tao Liu is the co-founder and CTO of MioTech. He used to be the senior software engineer of Turn. He earned his master’s degree at Cornell University and his bachelor’s degree at Tongji University.
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About MioTech: MioTech is an artificial intelligence platform that empowers financial institutions to draw actionable insights on their data.
Rehan Hameed
CTO & Co-Founder of Deep Vision
Rehan received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering at Stanford where he focused his research on computer vision and low-power processors. Rehan has industry experience shipping multiple chips, optimizing GPUs, and creating image processing software. He holds multiple patents. He is an avid photographer.
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About Deep Vision: Deep Vision is AI startup that is building an AI inferencing chip for edge computing solutions.
Adam Rowell
Cofounder & CTO of Lucid
Stanford PhD and entrepreneur converting human vision to computer vision.Adam develops image processing and 3D graphics in any language onto any device. After his previous startup, he worked on building software for military vision and radar systems under highest pressure and conditions.
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About Lucid: AI platform extracting insights out of images and videos to serve the best content to convert users
Rajeev Singh
Chief Technology Officer of Autogrid
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About Autogrid: AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.
Dylan Rhodes
Co Founder – CTO of Knowhere
Dylan Rhodes joined Knowhere as Co-Founder & CTO in 2015.
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About Knowhere: Information technology company using machine learning to deliver factual, community-first, and critical news information at scale.
Alexandros Potamianos
CTO & Co-Founder of Behavioral Signals
Alex is a well-regarded innovator in the field of speech and natural language processing, interactive voice response systems and behavioral informatics. He has over 20 years of leadership experience both in the corporate and entrepreneurial sides of business. His background includes working at AT&T Labs-Research, Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies and is a co-founder of Alesman.
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About Amazon, Behavioral Signals, National Technical University of Athens, University of Southern California: Behavioral Signals develops technology to analyze human behavior from voice data.
Lee Chae
Co-Founder and CTO of Brightseed
Lee Chae is the Co-founder and CTO at Brightseed.
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About Brightseed: Brightseed features artificial intelligence that reveals powerful compounds hidden in nature.
Nicole Hu
Chief Technology Officer & Co Founder of One Concern
Nicole Hu is a computer scientist and was named by the Forbes magazine as one of the world’s top thirty innovators, in its Forbes 30 under 30 edition, for Enterprise Tech, in January 2016. Nicole holds a graduate degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. Prior to Stanford, she had the opportunity of working on exciting projects at Flipkart, the fastest growing e-commerce platform in India.
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About One Concern: One Concern provides a resilience-as-a-service solution that helps customers uncover, prepare for, and mitigate unpredictable disaster risk.
James Wong
CTO, Co-founder of XP Health
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About Sand Hill Angels, XP Health: XP Health is an artificial intelligence-powered vision benefits platform for employees.
Brian Peterson
CTO & Co-founder of Dialpad
Brian Peterson is one of the founding members of Switch. He currently serves as a software engineer, specializing in web and Android development. Previously he was a Senior Software Engineer at Google for eight years. During his time there, he was the first Google engineer transfer to the acquired Google Voice/Grand Central team. Prior to his transfer, Brian was one of two original members of the Online Sales and Operations Google engineering team. Brian has a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego. A native Californian, Brian currently resides in San Jose, California. In his free time, Brian enjoys developing independent websites.
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About Dialpad: Dialpad is an AI-powered cloud communications platform that turns conversations into opportunities and helps teams make smart calls.
Sean Kandel
Founder & CTO of Trifacta
Sean Kandel is the founder and chief technical officer at Trifacta.Sean holds a PhD from Stanford University, where his research focused on new interactive tools for data transformation and discovery, such as Data Wrangler. Prior to Stanford, Sean worked as a data analyst at Citadel Investment Group.
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About Trifacta: Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate pipelines.
Ehsan Totoni
CTO & Co-Founder of Bodo.ai
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About Bodo.ai: The Python Supercomputing Analytics Platform
Deepansh Jain
Founder & CTO of Scooterson
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About Scooterson: Intelligent electric vehicles of the future.
Cliff Click
CTO of Cratus Technology, Inc.
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About Cratus Technology, Inc.: CRATUS provides the all-in-one AI – IoT SaaS platform for enterprise operations.
Nelson Vazquez
Co-Founder & CTO of Revl
Nelson Vazquez is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Revl.
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About Revl: AI Powered Video Souvenirs as a Service. Full end to end solution for roller coasters, skydive drop zones, race tracks, and zip lines.
Tyler Kohn
Cofounder and CTO of Continual
As RichRelevance’s CTO, Tyler manages product, engineering, operations, and data science to accelerate market and technical leadership. Tyler leads a global team of over 70 technologists in the continued development and innovation of the company’s big data infrastructure, and has pioneered his team’s prominent position in high-performance and distributed computing through conferences, Meet Ups, white papers and contributions to leading open source projects. Tyler brings over 15 years of technology leadership experience—ranging from Wall Street trading systems to wireless infrastructure to international device management—to this role. Before co-founding RichRelevance, he was a senior consultant at Lab49 where he was responsible for developing real-time analytic trading and reporting systems for Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank. Prior to Lab49, Tyler ran Axeda Systems development and implementations in European and Middle-Eastern markets, and was the founding chief architect of 2Roam. 2Roam’s wireless data platform was deployed across Asia, the US and Europe, and received PC Magazine’s Editors’ Choice award. Tyler holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Boston University.
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About Continual: Continual is a next-generation AI platform for the modern data stack powered by end-to-end automation and a declarative workflow.
Hung Tran
Founder/CTO of Got It AI
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About Got It AI: Democratizing Conversational AI: TrueNLP™ based Self Discovering, Self Training & Self Maintaining AI in the cloud
Pavan Bayyapu
CTO, Co-Founder of Regology
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About Regology: Regology is curating the world’s regulations to help businesses with compliance.
Adam McKenzie
Co-Founder & CTO of Rescale
Adam is responsible for leading the technical team at Rescale. Prior to founding Rescale, Adam spent three years as a consultant at Slalom Consulting developing web based business applications for businesses in the high-tech and commercial real estate sectors. Adam began his career at Boeing, where he spent seven years working on multiple programs, primarily as a structural and software engineer on the 787 program designing, analyzing, and optimizing the wing.
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About Rescale: Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.
Amit Man
Co-founder and CTO of DigitalOwl INST
Amit Man is the founder and CEO of Takes, and the founder and CTO of DigitalOwl
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About DigitalOwl INST, Legal Automation: Advanced technology for faster medical records review, delivering increased productivity and a competitive edge.
Mark Kuhr
CTO and Co-Founder of Synack
Mark co-founded Synack after focusing over nine years on Cyber Security in Academia and Defense industries. Most recently, at the National Security Agency (NSA), Mark worked in roles that include Technical Director, Computer Network Operations Operator, Network Analyst, and Computer Scientist. Dr. Kuhr received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Auburn University under a DoD/NSA-sponsored fellowship. He has published several papers on enterprise cyber security and performed research under DoD contracts related to information security, network analysis, and jam-resistant network communication protocols. Mark holds a number of security related certifications from CNSS and ISC(2).
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About Synack: Synack is a crowdsourced security platform that utilizes augmented intelligence to discover and secure vulnerable applications.
RJ JAIN
Founder ,CEO & CTO of Price.com
RJ Jain is the Founder ,CEO & CTO at Price.com.
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About Price.com, Private Angel Investor: Price.com develops a money savings platform used for comparison shopping, cashback, coupons, price history, and price alerts.
Dejan Pangercic
CTO & Co-Founder of Apex.AI
Dejan Pangercic and Jan Becker founded Apex.AI in 2017.
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About Apex.AI: Apex.AI is building an operating system for autonomous vehicles.
Oliver Tavakoli
CTO of Vectra
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About Vectra: Vectra is a cybersecurity platform that uses AI to detect attackers in real time and perform conclusive incident investigations.
Stephan Kletzl
CTO / DPO of UserGems
Stephan Kletzl is Founder at SmartHires.
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About SmartHires, UserGems: An AI-powered solution that combines relationship data and trigger events to identify buyers who will most likely buy from you
Xinwen Zhang
Co-Founder & CTO of HireEZ
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About HireEZ: HireEZ offers AI powered recruitment software that allows intelligent sourcing, engagement, analysis, and integration on existing platforms.
Jin Lim
CTO & Co-Founder of Intellimize
Jin is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Intellimize. Prior to Intellimize, Jin held various senior engineering positions at Yahoo, including most recently the VP of Engineering role where he led the Personalization Platform group responsible for building large-scale personalized recommendations across the Yahoo network. Prior to Yahoo, Jin co-founded and sold Blue Tiger Networks, a startup that specialized in peer-to-peer trading platform. Jin has a BA in Computer Science from Cambridge University.
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About Intellimize: Intellimize is a startup offering tools for marketers to drive conversions by personalizing websites.
Waseem AlShikh
Co-founder and CTO of Writer
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About Writer: Writer is an AI writing assistant that helps content teams keep their writing in line.
Madhu Therani
CTO & Head of AI of Near
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About Near: Near, the world’s largest source of intelligence on People, Places, and Products, is the global leader in Data Intelligence.
Kevin Hall
CTO & Co-founder of Ripcord
Kevin Hall is the CTO & Co-founder at Ripcord.
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About Ripcord: Ripcord is a robotics company that combines hardware and software robotics via an integrated SaaS offering.
