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 New York based Founder operating in the Artificial Intelligence space. If you think a Founder 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.
Itai Tsiddon
Co-Founder of Lightricks
Itai Tsiddon was one of the 5 co-founders at Lightricks, an Israeli unicorn. He leads two deals a year, broadly ranging from 6-60m in size (early A to Pre IPO). Itai serves as a board member at Lightricks, Frame.io, Homesome, and Standard Bots and led Forter’s Series E pre IPO fundraise with Bessemer and Felix capital joining his TS as a solo capitalist.
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About Lightricks: Lightricks develops creativity tools that enable its users to craft and share visual content on mobile devices.
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Richard Smullen
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Pypestream
Richard is the CEO and founder of Pypestream, a secure mobile messaging platform that uses real-time chat to transform the way brands and businesses connect with customers. Through ‘Pypes’ listed in a searchable catalogue, businesses are provided with a direct connection to their customers for increased engagement, automated customer service, and in-message payment processing. The ultimate customer engagement tool, further loyalty is derived by using proprietary AI and chatbot technology to allow conversations at scale. A serial entrepreneur, Richard previously co-founded Genesis Media LLC, a real-time video advertising platform, and is a board member of SouthWinston LLC, a New York-based, global private equity and VC fund.
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About dhomain llc, Pypestream, SouthWinston: Pypestream is conversational artificial intelligence built for scale.
Howard Katzenberg
Founder & CEO of Glean analytics
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About Glean analytics: Glean unlocks the powerful data detailed in vendor invoices/receipts to surface relevant spend insights and drive spend accountability
Alan Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Alan founded IAG Research, which became the leading provider of engagement metrics in the television industry, and served as co-CEO until the company was acquired by Nielsen. Alan then served as the CEO of Advertising Solutions for Nielsen, and is currently a venture partner for Greycroft Partners. Alan is a graduate of the New York University School of Law (J.D.), Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (M.P.P.), and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.).
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About Embark, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Eric Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Co-Managing Partner@Peak Opportunity Partners (“POP”). Pop is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on seed and early stage companies. POP makes opportunistic investments that can typically be a company’s first outside capital. Investments include: Blue Apron, Work Fusion(Crowd Computing), Stella Service, Great Bridge ( Earnest Research ), EBTH ( Everything But The House ).
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About Canvs, GoSpotCheck, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Chris Calmeyn
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of Fetcher
Co-founder, Chief Product Officer at Scout.
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About Fetcher: Fetcher provides an AI-powered sourcing platform designed to automate the recruitment process.
Prashant Kumar
Founder of Unbxd
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About Unbxd: Unbxd is an e-commerce product discovery platform that connects shoppers to the products they are most likely to buy.
Howard Lerman
Co-Founder and CEO of Yext
Howard Lerman founded Yext in 2006 with a single goal: to build an impactful, great company with super talented people. Along the way, Yext has re-invented three industries: pay-per-call advertising, business listings synchronization, and today, digital knowledge management. With hundreds of amazingly talented employees serving many of the world’s leading businesses, Yext is on its way to realizing Howard’s original vision. Yext is Howard’s fourth software company. Howard is also Co-Founder and Chairman of Confide, a leading off-the-record messaging service. Howard is a proud graduate of TJHSST and barely graduated from Duke University.
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About Confide, Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Peter Brodsky
CEO & Co-Founder of Hyperscience
As Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Peter drives the strategy and direction of Hyperscience.
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About Hyperscience, Instinctiv: Hyperscience is a technology company that develops AI-based enterprise software designed to automate office work processes.
Scott Britton
Co-Founder of Troops
Scott Britton is the co-founder of Troops. Prior to founding Troops, he also founded Life-LongLearner.com and handled Business Development in SinglePlatform. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Politics, Economics at Princeton University.
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About Troops: Troops provides a Salesforce automation platform used to improve sales velocity, forecast, visibility, and collaboration.
Greg Ratner
Co-Founder, CTO of Troops
Greg Ratner is co-founder and CTO of Troops.ai, a venture-backed company building artificial intelligence and automation for Sales and Customer Success teams.Greg is a serial entrepreneur focused on scalable, cutting-edge technology solutions and distributed systems. For over 15 years he managed teams and built technology solutions for startups, government, and fortune 500 companies. Greg leads engineering at Troops where systems process billions of Salesforce records to streamline process and provide real-time intelligence to over 1,000 companies.
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About Troops: Troops provides a Salesforce automation platform used to improve sales velocity, forecast, visibility, and collaboration.
Edo Segal
Founder and CEO of Touchcast
Edo Segal is the Founder & CEO at TouchCast.
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About bMuse, iWise, Kinsa, Touchcast, Touchcast: Touchcast is the world’s leading enterprise metaverse company. We connect people by breaking down barriers of space, time and language.
Numaan Akram
Founder & CEO of Rally
Numaan is the founder and CEO of Rally Bus, a New Haven startup which combines crowdsourcing and event travel.
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About Rally: Rally is Mass Mobility as a Service: technology and model innovations for the business of buses.
Siheun Song
Co-Founder & President of Rally
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About Rally: Rally is Mass Mobility as a Service: technology and model innovations for the business of buses.
Gideon Mendels
Co-Founder and CEO of Comet.ml
Gideon Mendels is co-founder and the CEO of CometML & Comet AI. Gideon is an experienced data scientist and entrepreneur. He worked on Deep Learning research at Google and Columbia University and previously co-founded Groupwize.
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About Comet AI, Comet.ml: Comet.ml allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models.
Nimrod Lahav
Co-Founder and CTO of Comet.ml
Nimrod Lahav is co-founder and CTO of CometML. Nimrod is an experienced technology leader and open source contributor. He previously led teams at Wix.com, vmware and co-founded Groupwize.
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About Comet.ml: Comet.ml allows data scientists to automatically track their datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models.
Gal Krubiner
CEO/ Co Founder of Pagaya Investments
Former UBS investments & wealth management professional, UHNW biz dev having raised hundreds of millions of dollars in assets. Specializes in innovative & sophisticated credit structured products (ABS structures).
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About Pagaya Investments: Pagaya is a financial technology company that enables financial institutions to expand access to more customers through its AI network.
Athena Karp
CEO & Founder of HiredScore
Athena Karp is the founder and CEO of HiredScore, an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500. HiredScore leverages the power of data science and machine learning to deliver deep hiring efficiencies, enhance talent mobility, and help organizations adapt for the future of work. HiredScore has won best-in-class industry recognition for delivering business value and transformation in the HR industry. Prior to founding HiredScore, Athena was an investor in New York, most recently at Altaris Capital, where she managed and sourced healthcare investments in highly regulated data environments. Previously, she was an Investment Banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, focused on public technology and media companies. Athena is a member of the technology advisory board of Belmont Charter Network schools, and founder and board member of Belmont Sprouts, which builds urban gardens and healthy eating experiences. She formerly served on the board of the Community Education Alliance of West Philadelphia, a network of charter schools with over 1,000 disadvantaged students, focused on preparing youth for the workforce and a successful life. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers. Athena holds a BSFS in international politics from Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is also actively involved in rebuilding West Philadelphia and creating a sustainable model for poverty alleviation through various boards and initiatives.
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About HiredScore: HiredScore is an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500
Daeil Kim
Founder and CEO of AI.Reverie
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About AI.Reverie: A leading provider of synthetic data to train machine learning algorithms.
Paul Walborsky
Founder & COO of AI.Reverie
Paul Walborsky is the Founder at AI.Reverie .
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About AI.Reverie: A leading provider of synthetic data to train machine learning algorithms.
Josh Troy
Co-Founder & CFO of Urbint
Josh Troy is the Head of Ops & Finance at Urbint.
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About Urbint: Urbint predicts threats to workers and critical infrastructure to stop incidents before they happen.
Pieter De Leenheer
Founder of Collibra
Pieter De Leenheer is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and computer scientist. He is Chief Technology Officer at Zenoptics, an analytics catalog and governance software company. Previously, Pieter founded Collibra, a unicorn software venture, that spun off from his data governance research at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Pieter writes, teaches and advises on computing and management aspects of data innovation. He serves as expert to several national governments and the European Commission. Pieter has held academic positions across the globe, including Harvard Business School, Columbia University, San Diego Supercomputer Center, VUB Brussels and VU University of Amsterdam. He lives in New York City with his wife and three daughters.
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About Collibra, ZenOptics: Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation.
Jack Kokko
CEO and Founder of AlphaSense
Jack Kokko is a visionary entrepreneur with a background in global financial services and a track record of delivering enabling technologies to demanding markets. Previously, he was the founding CEO of Silecs and a senior analyst with Morgan Stanley. He holds a Wharton MBA and a MSc. degree in engineering.
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About AlphaSense: AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence allowing professionals to make critical decisions.
Chiu Chau
Co-Founder, CTO of OpenTrons
Chiu worked in biotech for 20+ years before building the first OpenTrons robot. In his previous company (bought by Immucor in 2008) he led the engineering team to build the core multiplex qPCR automation technology now used in most blood banks for advanced blood typing. Chiu grew up in Hong Kong and is a diehard raquetball player.
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About OpenTrons: OpenTrons is a developer of a pipetting robot technology designed to automate experiments.
Bulent Tekmen
Co-Founder & Global CEO of Colendi
Bulent Tekmen is a co-founder of ininal, a payment system for the unbanked population in Turkey.
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About Colendi, Ininal, Next Ventures: A multifunctional banking as a service platform that democratizes banking services for consumers, merchants, and financial institutions
Joy Tang
CEO & Founder of mai (Markable AI)
Joy Tang is the CEO and founder of Markable.ai, the leading AI computer vision company for the retail sector. It has raised over $5.2M and closing another $6M round from tier one global VCs with billion dollar clients on most continents. Before building Markable’s world class team, Joy won a Gold Medal in Math Olympics in China at age 16 and was the TV anchor of a Chinese television program for ten years. Joy then attended MIT on a full scholarship, with majors in math and economics. Joy sold her first start up, a social media platform for international students built together with Berkeley students to a Chinese company in her last year of college. After college, she worked as a lead machine learning quantitative scientist for seven years that built financial high frequency AI trading programs generating a daily six-figure profit while causing traditional wall street to crash in 2008. Joy left high frequency trading to create Markable.ai, upon noticing a huge gap in the market between e-commerce and digital content. This gap inspired her to develop the AI technology to make all forms of visual digital content such as photos, videos and livestream content immediately shoppable. Markable.ai has a goal to deliver the ultimate shopping therapy for consumers; the future of AI driven fast e-commerce; and the future of AI driven green, user-engaged advertising.
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About mai (Markable AI): Mai is the leading AI visual discovery shopping engine that makes any photo or video content shoppable
Joe Chin
Co-Founder & CEO of Sparrow Vision
Joe is a serial entrepreneur and CEO, having successfully founded Internet companies over the past 15 years. Joe is the founding CEO of SourcePad. Prior to SourcePad, Joe was the founding CEO of Searchandise (originally Guidester), which was acquired by RichRelevance in 2011. Prior, Joe was the Managing Director of REOL, founder/President of Diadem (a multi-player game company), founder/principal of JEV (an import/export company). Joe started his career as an engineer, designing multi-million dollar satellites for Hughes Aircraft. Joe earned a MS from UC Berkeley and a BS from Columbia University.
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About SourcePad, Sparrow Vision: Sparrow provides personalized feedback on golf swing using its advanced AI technology.
Lesley Eccles
Founder and CEO of HelloRelish
Lesley Eccles is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of HelloRelish. She is a serial entrepreneur and start-up advisor, now working on her third start-up, in the health and wellness space. She is co-founder of FanDuel, the fantasy sports company, and served as its Head of Marketing for 9 years.
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About HelloRelish: HelloRelish is a relationship wellness app that delivers personalized plan to rebuild your relationships.
Thomas Clozel
Co-Founder & CEO of Owkin
Thomas is a former assistant professor in clinical hematology/oncology from Hopital Mondor in Paris, with a special focus on lymphoma epigenetics and a former member of Ari Melnick’s lab in Weill Cornell, New York. He co-founded OWKIN in June 2016 with Gilles Wainrib, a former Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, and pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence. OWKIN uniquely integrates Systems Biology with Artificial Intelligence to make accurate medical predictions and compare populations. From molecule to market, OWKIN accelerates drug discovery and discover hidden patterns to help individual patients.
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About Owkin: Founded in 2016, Owkin uses artificial intelligence to find the right treatment for every patient.
Jake Mor
Founder & CEO of FitnessAI
Jake Mor is the founder and CEO of Fitness AI, an app that uses AI to generate personalized weight lifting plans.
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About FitnessAI: Fitness AI is an app that uses AI to generate personalized weight lifting plans.
Adam Smith
Co-Founder, Head of Strategy of Descartes Labs
Adam has 20 years of executive experience in technology, finance, and entrepreneurship. He built and launched his first company (software QA) while in college. He’s worked in management consulting, investment banking, the hedge fund industry, and most recently with two startups in the Education Technology sector. He has a BA from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Descartes Labs: Optimizing sustainable sourcing, commodity price forecasting, & mineral exploration through the automated analysis of geospatial data
Gautam Ivatury
Founder & Head of Happy
Gautam Ivatury has been a pioneer in expanding financial access using technology for nearly two decades. He has started or led pioneering ventures such as India’s first microfinance institution to IPO (SKS Microfinance), Kenya’s first mobile-based credit provider (Jipange Kusave), India’s first digital micro-lender (ArthImpact/Happy Loans), and the firm that incubated M-Kopa, Africa’s largest pay-go solar financier. Gautam secured the Gates Foundation’s largest-ever grant in financial inclusion ($26m) while at CGAP / World Bank and set up its industry-shaping digital finance program. He has also chaired the global telecom association’s fund for mobile money, advised US-based VC and private equity funds, consulted to Fortune 500 players including Microsoft and Visa, and developed projects in 9 countries. Besides being an entrepreneur, advisor, and funder, Gautam has authored or co-authored groundbreaking work on the impact, business design and regulation of technology-driven financial inclusion. These have been published by the World Bank, CGAP, MIT Press, Springer Verlag, and media including the Banker and Revue Banque. Gautam has been a frequent lecturer at academic and executive programs including at Harvard University, MIT, Johns Hopkins University, the Wharton School and Columbia University business schools, Cambridge University and others. He has delivered dozens of keynote speeches and led discussions at trade conferences on virtually every continent and been a televised speaker on CNBC in the US and in India. Gautam is a Board Director at Vaya Finserv (a leading Indian MFI), an advisor to Encourage Capital, and an investor in multiple fintech startups.
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About Happy: Happy is a digital lending platform offering short term loans using alternate data to micro-enterprises in India
Omri Yoffe
Co-Founder & CEO of Vi
Omri Yoffe is Founder & CEO at Vi
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About Vi: Vi is the world’s leading Enterprise-AI for digital health.
Allon Bloch
Co-Founder and CEO of K Health
Allon Bloch is the CEO and Co-founder of K Health. Previously he served as the CEO of Vroom, the largest online car retailer in the U.S, Co-CEO of Wix, the world’s leading website publishing platform, and CEO of mySupermarket, a digital platform that empowers consumers to find the best prices for their groceries. Allon is also a former venture capitalist, serving as a Venture Partner with Greylock’s Europe/Israel fund and a General Partner at JVP. He holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and is based in New York.
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About K Health: K Health is a data-driven digital primary care system that uses AI to deliver personalized primary care.
Ben Parr
Co-Founder and President of Octane AI
Ben Parr is a journalist, author, entrepreneur, investor, and expert on attention. Through his experience as a technology writer, venture capitalist, and prolific public speaker, Parr has coached dozens of young startups and Fortune 500 corporations on how to get attention for their products. Parr is a co-founder and managing partner of DominateFund, a venture capital firm that invests in and accelerates the growth of early-stage technology, software, and product startups through its expertise in the press, marketing, customer and user acquisition, viral products, and strategic celebrity partnerships. Previously, Parr was the co-editor and editor-at-Large of Mashable, where he wrote more than 2,400 articles on social media and technology, managed Mashable’s editorial team, and interviewed everyone from Ashton Kutcher to Mark Zuckerberg. He also served as a columnist and commentator for CNET. His work has been featured in a variety of media, including CNBC, CNN, Fox News.
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About DominateFund, Octane AI: Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.
Michael Kohen
Founder & CEO of SparkAI
Michael Kohen is the Founder and CEO at SparkAI.
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About SparkAI, Stealth Mode: SparkAI is a real-time edge case resolution for AI in production.
Tania Ahuja
Founder and CEO of Nobias
Tania Ahuja is Founder and CEO of Nobias and is Head of US Operations for Arkera Inc. She is a former director of Citigroup and serves on the Board of Overseers at Stern School of Business, NYU. Additionally, she sits on the board of other learning and art organizations including the Center of Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania, Salome Chamber Orchestra, The Paper Bag Players, and is Chairman of the Board for the Summit Music Festival. Tania holds a PhD in Finance from Stern School of Business, New York University. She has a BS in Statistics and an MS in Operations Research.
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About Nobias: Software tools that help protect consumers from deceptive or misleading content on the internet.
Vangelis Vergetis
Co-Founder & Executive Director of Intelligencia
Vangelis is working on the intersection of data science, technology, and healthcare. In 2017 he co-founded Intelligencia, a company that uses AI to assess and minimize the risk of drug development. Prior to that he was a management consultant for more than 12 years – at both McKinsey and Hakluyt – advising healthcare clients and investors on a variety of topics, including digital technologies, clinical development and early commercialization. Outside of Intelligencia, Vangelis is a board member and member of the Executive Committee of the Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAIH), serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for Cornell’s faculty of Computing & Information Science (CIS), and is an advisor and investor in technology companies in both the US and Europe. He holds a BS and PhD in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
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About Intelligencia: Intelligencia is a SaaS company that applies machine learning to assess and mitigate the risk in clinical development strategy/design.
Dimitrios Skaltsas
Co-Founder, Executive Director of Intelligencia
Dimitrios has led McKinsey’s team for big data & AI applications in R&D for life sciences, and has built SaaS products focusing on clinical development. He serves as an advisor, and has also invested, in several technology companies with a focus on big data. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, where he is also currently an Executive in Residence for AI/ Digital.
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About INSEAD, Intelligencia: Intelligencia is a SaaS company that applies machine learning to assess and mitigate the risk in clinical development strategy/design.
Evan Smith
CEO and Co-Founder of Altana AI
Evan Smith is the CEO and co-founder at Altana Trade.
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About Altana AI: Altana is an AI partnership that uses global economic data to make trade safer, more efficient, and more profitable.
Peter Swartz
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Altana AI
Peter Swartz is the CTO and co-founder of Altana Trade.
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About Altana AI: Altana is an AI partnership that uses global economic data to make trade safer, more efficient, and more profitable.
Raphael Tehranian
Co-Founder and COO of Altana AI
Raphael Tehranian is the co-founder and COO of Altana Trade.
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About Altana AI, Cleantech Group, Suncor Energy: Altana is an AI partnership that uses global economic data to make trade safer, more efficient, and more profitable.
Alex Elias
Founder and CEO of Qloo
Alex Elias is the founder and CEO of Qloo, a venture-backed company that pioneered the space of Cultural AI, with strategic backing from firms such as AXA and AI Ventures, and individuals including Barry Sternlicht, Leonardo DiCaprio and Sir Elton John. Prior to founding Qloo, Alex earned his J.D. at the NYU School of Law where he focused on internet privacy regulation. Elias is a thought leader on AI and anonymization, and has expressed his views in public speeches, television appearances (including Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox, El Pais), and opinion pieces for various publications including Investors Business Daily. Elias resides in manhattan with his wife and son, and is an avid jazz pianist.
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About Qloo: Qloo is a cultural artificial intelligence platform that operates via an application programming interface.
Kumesh Aroomoogan
Co-Founder & CEO of Accern
Kumesh Aroomoogan is the co-founder and CEO of Accern, an NYC-based venture-backed AI startup whose mission is to accelerate AI for enterprise with a no-code development platform. Accern was named Forbes 30 Under 30 for Enterprise Technology.
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About Accern, Forbes: Accern accelerates AI workflows for enterprises with a no-code AI development platform.
Dennis Mortensen
CEO & Founder of x.ai
Mortensen is the CEO and Founder of x.ai, whose artificial intelligence driven personal assistant lets people schedule meetings using plain English and nothing more than a CC to amy@x.ai. He’s a pioneer and expert in the analytics, optimization and big data space and has been since its inception – he is also a fully-fledged entrepreneur and successfully delivered a number of company exits. He’s an accredited Associate Analytics Instructor at the University of British Columbia, the Author of Data Driven Insights from Wiley and a frequent speaker on the subject of Analytics and Data. A native of Denmark, Mortensen currently calls New York City his home.
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About x.ai: x.ai is a tool that helps you and your team share ideal availability and schedule meetings.
Marcos Jimenez Belenguer
Chief Data Scientist & Co-Founder of x.ai
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About x.ai: x.ai is a tool that helps you and your team share ideal availability and schedule meetings.
Giuliano Senese
Founder & CEO of DX Medical Solutions
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About DX Medical Solutions: Medical Technology Startup
Samir Arora
Founder and CEO of Sage Digital
Samir Arora is an American entrepreneur, inventor and investor. He is best known as a veteran of Apple Computer and a serial founder, investor and CEO in Silicon Valley with a passion to lead team of incredible people to perform the impossible. He is listed as one of the 100 Internet Pioneers along with Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen and others, and as the 21 people that shaped the World Wide Web at the 1st Web Innovators Awards by CNET. Samir started his career at Apple, and currently is the founder & Group CEO of Sage Digital Corp and serves as a Managing Partner of the venture firm Information Capital. At Sage, Samir is building a platform for experts, publishers and businesses: Sage Plus for Experts currently is an invite-only platform or experts, talent and celebrities and their teams. He was the CEO of Mode Media /Glam Media and founder and CEO of one of the first web site building platform company NetObjects.
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About Foodie Top 100, Information Capital LLC, Mode Media Japan, Project Bento, Sage Digital, Woodside Incubator: Sage Digital is a AI-driven platform for verified experts to manage their online presence
Brandon Muto
Founder of Boxscore
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About Boxscore: Boxscore uses artificial intelligence to find the best deals on sports tickets.
Daniel Schreiber
Co-Founder & CEO of Lemonade
Daniel is a tech leader whose passion for innovation took him from startups to the Fortune 500 (and back again). As President of Powermat Daniel oversaw its transformation into an industry standard and a default feature in the world’s foremost smartphones (Samsung Galaxy), venues (Starbucks) and cars (GM). Prior to Powermat, Daniel served as SVP Corporate Marketing at Sandisk, with global responsibility for the company’s social media, press relations, 50 web and ecommerce sites and major rebranding. During the iPod’s heyday, Daniel served as SVP andGM of Sandisk’s Audio-Video business unit, attaining #1 market share worldwide after Apple, and outselling all other brands combined. Daniel joined SanDisk via the $1.6B acquisition of msystems, where he served as VP Marketing and BD. He was co-founder and CEO of Alchemedia Inc., a content security software company, and began his career as a corporate-commercial attorney. Today Daniel is CEO & cofounder of Lemonade, the insurance carrier built on AI and Behavioral Economics.
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About Lemonade: Lemonade operates as a full-stack insurance company powered by AI and behavioral economics and driven by social good.
Clement Delangue
CEO & Co-Founder of Hugging Face
Clement Delangue is the Chief Executive Officer at Hugging Face.
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About Hugging Face, Milaap: Hugging Face is the leading ML platform
Alex Dresner
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Imagen Technologies
Alex is a Co-Founder and the Co-CEO of Imagen. Prior to co-founding Imagen, Alex worked as the Head of the Hospital for Special Surgery’s Value Analytics and Management Office. Alex began his career at Bridgewater Associates where he was a member of the Core Management Team. Alex received his bachelor’s degree from the London School of Economics.
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About Imagen Technologies: Powering the future of primary care
Elad Walach
CEO and Co-Founder of Aidoc
Elad Walach is a co-founder and CEO of Aidoc. He is an expert in AI with visionary business insights in the healthcare space. Since establishing Aidoc in early 2016, Elad has led the company through 2 rounds of investment (total of $13Mil), driven the commercial availability of 2 product lines (detecting brain hemorrhages and C-Spine fractures), and created an install base of 16 global health systems while growing the company to over 50 employees. Elad began his career in the elite Israeli Defense Force technology program “Talpiot”. He led AI research in the Israeli Air Force where he initiated and managed several teams focused on machine learning and computer vision projects. Elad holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has published multiple academic papers on deep learning.
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About Aidoc: Aidoc specializes in developing artificial intelligence tools for radiologists and multidisciplinary response teams.
Joshua Abram
Co-Founder of Dstillery
Joshua Abram is the Co-Founder of Dstillery, Integral Ad Science, and NeueHouse. He is also the Founder & Co-CEO at TMRW Life Sciences, Inc. and Co-Founder, Partner at Coriolis Ventures.
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About Coriolis Ventures, Dstillery, Integral Ad Science, NeueHouse, TMRW Life Sciences: Dstillery is the leading custom audience solutions company, empowering brands and their agencies to maximize the value of customer data.
Eugenia Kuyda
Co-Founder & CEO of Luka (dba Replika)
Eugenia Kuyda, co-founder of the AI startup Luka, memorial bots are ‘the future.’
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About Luka (dba Replika): Luka is a software development company based in San Francisco, California
Prashant Bhuyan
Founder, CEO and Chairman of Accrete
Founder, CEO and Chairman at Accrete.
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About Accrete, Shinrai: Accrete AI enables organizations to solve novel classes of real world information complexity problems by scaling tacit knowledge.
Mayank Patel
Co Founder, President & COO of Accrete
Co-Founder, President & COO Accrete.ai.
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About Accrete: Accrete AI enables organizations to solve novel classes of real world information complexity problems by scaling tacit knowledge.
Josh Adam
Co Founder & Advisor of Accrete
Josh Adam is a Co-Founder.
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About Accrete: Accrete AI enables organizations to solve novel classes of real world information complexity problems by scaling tacit knowledge.
Duy Huynh
Founder and CEO of Robotbase
Duy Huynh is the founder of Incognito.
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About Constant, Incognito Chain, Robotbase, Shortcut: The world’s first personal robots
Renen Hallak
Founder & CEO of VAST Data
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About VAST Data: VAST Data is a software company bringing an end to complex storage tiering and unlocking the ability to use flash across the enterprise.
Paul Monasterio
CEO and Co-Founder of Kalepa
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About Forum Ventures: Efficient Frontier Commercial Insurance
Erkin Adylov
Founder and CEO of Behavox
Erkin Adylov is the founder and CEO of Behavox, which provides compliance and risk management solutions to better monitor employees and support regulatory compliance at large financial institutions. The technology aggregates disparate sources of data and applies innovative machine learning algorithms in real time to reveal patterns of suspicious behaviour. Prior to founding Behavox in 2014, Erkin was portfolio manager at GLG Partners. Erkin co-managed GLG Financials Fund with $2bn in assets under management. Prior to joining GLG Partners, Erkin was a research analyst at Goldman Sachs. Over the last three years Erkin has also been involved in three start ups as a co-founder and an investor.
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About Behavox: Behavox is an AI-driven platform that enables you to aggregate, analyze, and act on your entire organization’s data.
Kiryl Trembovolski
Co-Founder and COO of Behavox
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About Behavox: Behavox is an AI-driven platform that enables you to aggregate, analyze, and act on your entire organization’s data.
Andrew Stroup
Founder and CEO of Leverage
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About CommonKey, Leverage: Leverage delivers end-to-end supply chain management powered by artificial intelligence.
Benoit Brookens III
Founder & CEO of Accrue
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About Accrue, nuOctave: Accrue is a financial analytics company that builds deep learning technology.
Sameer Maskey
Founder & CEO of Fusemachines
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About Columbia University, Fusemachines: Fusemachines is an enterprise AI services and solutions provider that brings AI education, products, and jobs to underserved communities.
Adam Hanina
Co-Founder, Board Director of AiCure
Adam Hanina is CEO and co-founder of AiCure. He has been a strategist in healthcare software delivery for over fifteen years and holds over a dozen patents in his name. Prior to AiCure, he helped further develop Cerner Corporation’s European strategy and was a Visiting Fellow of eHealth at Imperial College in London, UK. Mr. Hanina has spoken extensively on the topic of healthcare innovation and has acted as a subject-matter expert on medication adherence technologies for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is currently a principal investigator for multiple NIH innovation grants. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
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About AIC Innovations Group, AiCure: AiCure is an advanced data analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to understand how patients respond to treatments.
Andrew Bocskocsky
CEO, Co-Founder of Grata
Andrew Bocskocsky is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Grata.
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About Grata: Grata is a business-to-business search engine for finding and targeting private companies.
John Meyer
Founder & CEO of Mosaic
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About Mosaic: AI Workforce Management – Resource Planning & Workforce Intelligence
Siqi Mou
Co-Founder and CEO of HelloAva, Inc
Siqi Mou is the co-founder and CEO of HelloAva. She is a former Bloomberg anchor with an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She also held several positions at Morgan Stanley, PIMCO prior to starting HelloAva.
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About HelloAva, Inc: Ava is a personal skincare consultant, powered by AI, deep learning and expert real dermatologists.
Cristina De la Pena
CEO & Co-Founder of Synapbox
Cristina De la Pena joined Synapbox as Founder & CEO in 2018.Cristina De la Pena has been a technology innovator since the beginning of her professional career. From building algorithms to optimize digital models to rethinking the way we build and interact with the real world. During her latest years, she has been leading the growth of Synapbox and reinventing the way we understand human behavior. By using AI and visual computing to understand facial expressions and attentional engagement, we are able to quantify the experience of consumers while interacting with content on their screens at scale. Everything, without the use of any external hardware or implementation to brands.
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About NeuroCrowd, Synapbox: Synapbox is a startup that uses AI-powered tools to understand consumer engagement towards Ads.
Sangarsh Nigam
Founder / Chief Executive Officer of bluCognition
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About bluCognition: bluCognition provides machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence and big data services.
Dedi Gilad
CEO & CO-Founder of TytoCare
With over 18 years of leadership positions both in startups as well as global companies, Dedi brings extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in R&D, Marketing and Operations of multi-disciplinary products in the fields of Healthcare IT, Enterprise Systems, Internet and SaaS. Before founding Tyto Care, Dedi was the General Manager at MDG Medical, VP R&D at WorkplaceIQ (acquired by Siterra / Accruent) and VP R&D at Aman Group. Dedi earned an MBA and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the Tel-Aviv University.
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About TytoCare: TytoCare is a telehealth platform for AI-powered and on-demand remote medical examinations.
Tomas Vykruta
Co-Founder & CEO of EvolutionIQ
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About EvolutionIQ: Leading the artificial intelligence transformation for insurance carriers. AI Guidance for Disability and General Liability Carriers.
Michael Saltzman
Co-Founder & COO of EvolutionIQ
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About EvolutionIQ: Leading the artificial intelligence transformation for insurance carriers. AI Guidance for Disability and General Liability Carriers.
Brian Streem
Founder, CEO of Vermeer
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About Vermeer: AR/VR & AI Enable Mission Planning Tool
Matthew Campbell
Founder of OctoVision
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About OctoVision: Helps fish farms have healthier fish via computer vision and AI
Antoine Halff
Co-Founder & Chief Analyst of Kayrros
Antoine Halff served as Director of Global Energy of Eurasia Group, Ltd. since February 2005. Antoine Halff served as Principal Administrator of the Paris-based International Energy Agency, where his primary responsibilities included price and short-term demand analysis. He served as Staff Member at the French Embassy in Seoul, South Korea from 1985 to 1987. From 2000 to 2004, Antoine Halff served as a Co-Author of the IEA’s influential monthly Oil Market Report and frequently spoke at numerous industry conferences and to the media on the demand effect of the 2001-2002 global economic downturn and China’s role as a Driver of global demand. Antoine Halff served as New York Bureau Chief of Energy Intelligence Group covering global crude and products markets for Petroleum Intelligence Weekly and other industry publications. He taught World History and Third-World History at Touro College in New York City from 1991 to 1994 and was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University from 1988 to 1989. A native of France, Antoine Halff was educated in Paris, earning an Advanced degree at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 1986 and an MA from Université Paris 7 in 1983.
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About Kayrros: Kayrros is an advanced data analytics company that helps global energy market participants make better investment decisions.
Adam Wenchel
CEO & Co-Founder of Arthur AI
Adam Wenchel is the CEO at Arthur AI.
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About Arthur AI: Arthur AI is a platform that monitors the productivity of machine learning models.
Alexander Hagerup
Co-Founder & CEO of Vic.ai
Entrepreneur. Co-Founder of Vic.ai in New York. Founding partner @ Norwegian.ai.Angel investor in 20+ companies within A.I., Robotics and Autonomous driving.
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About Qatch, Vic.ai: Vic.ai is an AI platform for accounting firms and enterprise finance departments.
Frank Pica
CEO & Co-Founder of Native
Frank is the president and co-founder of Native AgTech. Previously, Frank was the vice president at ADYOULIKE for over one year.
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About Native: A platform using A.I. to understand consumer preferences and helping companies create products that people love!
Sarah Sanders
Co-Founder, COO & Board Member of Native
Sarah Sanders is a co-founder at Native AgTech, a B2B platform designed to democratize agricultural data. Previously, Sarah was a territory account executive at Toast. Sarah Sanders holds a bachelor of business administration degree in management from the University of Kentucky.
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About Native: A platform using A.I. to understand consumer preferences and helping companies create products that people love!
Josh Walsh
Co-Founder of AdTheorent
Josh Walsh is co-founded AdTheorent, Inc. in 2010 and serves as its President of Media and served as its Chief Strategy Officer. Mr. Walsh started his career at a Search Marketing start-up named Catalyst Online, where he spend much of his time on the Procter and Gamble account. He subsequently worked at Media Contacts, where he focused on the technology that powers DSP, SSP and RTB systems and also studied these platform’s ideation from search models. He graduated from UMass Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management with a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Information Technologies studies.
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About AdTheorent: AdTheorent’s is a machine learning technology powers predictive targeting, predictive creative, and self-learning insights.
Rohan Agrawal
Founder and CEO of Cogito Tech LLC
Rohan Agrawal is an entrepreneur, innovator, and investor. He is currently the Founder and CEO at Cogito Technologies, a data-driven technology start-up focused on generating high-quality labeled data sets required for building Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications.
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About Cogito Tech LLC: Machine Learning Training Data for AI | Object Detection Datasets – Cogito
Peter W Davidson
Co-Founder, CEO of Aligned Intermediary
Peter W. Davidson is Co-founder and CEO of the Aligned Intermediary (AI), an investment advisory group created to help large scale, long-term investors (LTIs) channel significant amounts of institutional capital into resource innovation investments – clean energy, water, waste – across the planet. To date, four LTIs have signed letters of intent to deploy a billion dollars of capital through AI-identified transactions. Prior to AI, Davidson was the Executive Director of the Loan Programs Office (LPO) at the U.S. Department of Energy. Appointed to that position by President Obama in May 2013, he oversaw the program’s more than $30 billion portfolio of loans and loan guarantees, making it the largest project finance organization in the U.S. government. Among the many clean energy projects supported by his office were the first new nuclear power facility to be built in the U.S. in 30 years and the nation’s first-ever commercial-scale offshore wind facility. Before LPO, Davidson was the Executive Director of New York State’s economic development agency, the Empire State Development Corporation. Before entering government service, Davidson founded and/or managed six media companies serving the rapidly-growing Hispanic market, including ownership of el Diario/La Prensa, New York City’s largest Spanish-language newspaper, as well as three Univision-affiliated TV stations. Since 2001, Davidson has also been chairman of the JM Kaplan Fund, a family foundation with over $150 million in assets. Under his leadership, he has redirected the foundation’s grantmaking focus towards environmental conservation, urban green space and sustainable transportation. Earlier in his career, Davidson was an executive in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley & Co. He holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. For the past 25 years, Davidson has lived in Brooklyn, NY, where he also serves on a number of boards of local Brooklyn institutions.
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About Aligned Climate Capital, Aligned Intermediary: The Aligned Intermediary (AI) is an investment advisory group created to help large scale, long-term investors (LTIs) channel.
Gil Friedrich
CEO and Co-Founder of Avanan
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About Avanan: Avanan uses AI to protect cloud email and collaboration suites from cyber attacks.
Michael Landewe
Founder of Avanan
Michael Landewe has 15 years’ startup experience as an early employee of three high-growth technology companies. He has taken leadership roles in engineering, sales, marketing and business development, most recently as VP of Asia Pacific Sales, opening distribution channels in over a dozen countries. He holds an MBA from New York University.
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About Avanan: Avanan uses AI to protect cloud email and collaboration suites from cyber attacks.
Timothy Machado
Co-Founder & Advisor of CTRL-labs
Tim received his PhD in Neuroscience from Columbia University and was a Graduate Fellow of the National Science Foundation.He was the winner of the 2015 Kavli Award for Distinguished Research in Neuroscience and has 8 publications in scientific journals including Cell (2015, 2016), Nature, Neuron, and the Journal of Neurophysiology.
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About CTRL-labs: CTRL-labs is a startup pioneering the development of non-invasive neural interfaces that reimagine how humans and machines collaborate.
Gabrielle Haddad
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Sigma Ratings
Gabrielle Haddad is the Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Sigma Ratings, Inc., the world’s first non-credit rating agency. Gabrielle began her career as an M&A attorney at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in NYC. She subsequently spent several years as an executive at The Global Fund, a Geneva, Switzerland based international financing institution, where she worked on risk and governance issues in over 30 country portfolios across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Her passion for international development, technology and innovation led her to return to the US and to spend a year studying at MIT, where she met her co-founder and launched Sigma. Gabrielle has an undergraduate degree in Finance from Villanova University, a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School and an M.B.A. from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
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About Sigma Ratings: Sigma Ratings is an AI-powered non-credit rating agency focused on quantifying company-level non-credit risks.
Jeremy Fain
CEO & Co-Founder of Cognitiv
Jeremy Fain is the co-founder and CEO of Cognitiv. With over 20 years of interactive experience, Jeremy has worked across the agency and publisher landscape in roles ranging from marketing, to industry standards, to revenue leadership. While at CBS Interactive, he launched and oversaw one of the first premium programmatic exchanges, which eventually led to his role managing all North American accounts at Rubicon Project. Jeremy founded Cognitiv in 2015 with two childhood friends who shared an interest in making Deep Learning accessible to business. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Yale University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
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About Cognitiv: Cognitiv uses proprietary Deep Learning technology to help companies with Big Data problems get beyond analysis to decisions.
Rahul Siddharth
COO Co-Founder, Board of Verifcient Technologies
Rahul Siddharth is the Chief Marketing Officer of Verificient Technologies. As CMO, Rahul is responsible for the overall branding and marketing strategy, while also supporting our business development efforts. His background experiences in creative consulting, print design, emarketing, web 2.0 strategies, multimedia design, motion graphics, rich-media design, photography, digital video production, advertising, copywriting, marketing, art directing, and project management. Rahul has won seventeen Creative Excellence Awards while working at SCG Creative, Grey Advertising, Bernard Hodes Group (Omnicom), Jack Morton Worldwide (IPG), Zoecom, RSVPdesign, Bayard Advertising and One Source. He has an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design and a BS in Marketing from Fairfield University.
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About Alignkraft, Proctortrack Pro, RemoteDesk- Employee Monitoring Software, Siddharth Creative Group, Verifcient Technologies: Trusted Identity-as-a-Service (TIaaS), platform for identity verification and authentication.
Daniel Wallerstorfer
Founder of Rootine
Daniel is a biotechnologist that dedicated his life to decoding the human genome. He has successfully built up the leading European genetic testing lab and is passionate about using DNA data to improve people’s lives.
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About Rootine: Rootine is optimizing health and human performance with precision nutrition.
Sercan Esen
Co-Founder and CEO of Intenseye
Sercan Esen is the co-founder and CEO of intenseye.
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About Intenseye: Intenseye is an AI-powered workplace safety platform that helps large enterprises to scale employee health and safety across their facility.
Brandon Reiss
Co-Founder, Engineering of Frame AI
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About Frame AI: Frame AI automatically measures sentiment, effort, and actionable themes on every customer interaction in every channel for winning CX.
Robbie Mitchell
Co-Founder / Head of Operations of Frame AI
Head of Operations at frame.ai. Previously head of marketing at Cover, head of marketing at Knewton, co-founder at Rhythm, Rhyme, Results, and staff at Harvard Kennedy School.
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About Frame AI, Superstrong Labs: Frame AI automatically measures sentiment, effort, and actionable themes on every customer interaction in every channel for winning CX.
Zor Gorelov
Co-Founder & CEO of Kasisto
Zor Gorelov has over 20 years of experience in the software industry. He was the co-founder and CEO of SpeechCycle, a market leader in cloud-based contact center optimization solutions for the telco market. SpeechCycle was acquired by Synchronoss Technologies (SNCR). Before that, Zor founded and ran BuzzCompany.com, a provider of enterprise collaboration and messaging software, which was acquired by Multex.com (MLTX). He has held multiple engineering and product management positions at Microsoft and Computron Software. His interest in speech and natural language technologies dates back to the early 90’s when he worked at Bell Labs.
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About Kasisto: Kasisto’s enables financial institutions to service, engage, and acquire customers.
Matthew Zeiler
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Clarifai
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About Clarifai: Clarifai is a deep learning AI platform for computer vision, natural language processing, and data labeling.
Alexander Hudek
CTO & Co-Founder of Kira Systems
Alex holds Ph.D and M.Math degrees in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, and a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in Physics and Computer Science. His past research in the field of bioinformatics focused on finding similarities between DNA sequences. He has also worked in the areas of proof systems and database query compilation.
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About Kira Systems: Kira Systems is a machine learning software that identifies, extracts, and analyzes text in contracts and other documents.
Noah Waisberg
Co-Founder & CEO of Kira Systems
Prior to founding Kira, Noah was an associate at the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York, where he focused on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and securities. Noah holds a J.D. from the NYU School of Law, an A.M. in Political Science from Brown University (where he completed the coursework and comprehensive examinations for a Ph.D), and a B.A. with honours from McGill University.
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About Kira Systems, Zuva: Kira Systems is a machine learning software that identifies, extracts, and analyzes text in contracts and other documents.
Fraser Kelton
Co-Founder & CEO of Koko
Fraser Kelton is the Product at OpenAI.
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