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Pecan powers AI-automated data science for advanced analytics and decision making

Allison Rose — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 14:11:42 +0000

Zohar Bronfman, CEO and Co-founder of Pecan, had no inkling of a career in tech during his years of military service in the Israeli army, or while earning two PhDs in computational neuroscience and another in the history of philosophy. His journey from soldier to scholar to CEO of a rapidly growing AI/ML tech startup...

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Four things I learned as CEO – Amir Khan, Alkira #MeetTheInnovators

Tom Davis — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:14:07 +0000

The first valuable lesson I learned is the importance of team chemistry and culture fit of the people that you are bringing in.

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Meet the Innovators with Ellington West, co-founder and CEO of Sonavi Labs

Tom Davis — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 12:25:09 +0000

This week I was delighted to catch up with Ellington West co-founder and CEO of Sonavi Labs, a medical device and software company using AI technology to enhance chronic disease management, based in Baltimore, Maryland. Ellington comes from a tradition of changemakers. Her grandmother was one of the human computers working for NASA as portrayed...

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Start locally, expand globally – Tal Kollender, CEO and co-founder of Gytpol

Tom Davis — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 14:58:05 +0000

Earlier this month I had the great pleasure of meeting Tal Kollender at the RSA conference in San Francisco. Tal is the co-founder and CEO of Gytpol one of the most exciting cyber-startups I have come across in recent years. I knew right away that I wanted to hear more about Tal’s journey, and I...

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Meet the Innovators with Vijaye Raji, founder and CEO of Statsig

Tom Davis — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 20:51:13 +0000

Everyone’s journey to entrepreneurship is different. Some start their first company while they’re in high school and then wash, rinse, repeat through several startups until they find one that works. Others take a longer way round. This week I had the great fortune to sit down with Vijaye Raji who founded Statsig after 20 years...

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Meet the Innovators – Omer Har, co-founder and CTO of Explorium

Tom Davis — Mon, 30 May 2022 19:03:33 +0000

I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down this week with Omer Har. Omer is the CTO of Explorium which he co-founded in 2018 with Maor Shlomo as CEO and Or Tamir as COO. These three Israeli tech entrepreneurs saw the struggle enterprises were experiencing acquiring and onboarding the right external datasets to make key...

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Working with a client to co-develop your product – Steve Gu, co-founder and CEO of AiFi

Microsoft for Startups — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 10:03:20 +0000

AiFi enables reliable, cost-effective, and entirely contactless autonomous shopping with AI-powered computer vision technology that provides an unrivaled experience for retailers and consumers. I asked Steve about his background and how he plans to make retail autonomous for shoppers everywhere.

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Meagan Kinmonth Bowman, Founder & CEO of Stonehenge Technology Labs’ unified commerce data super-highway, STOPWATCH™

Microsoft for Startups — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 01:38:18 +0000

As founder and CEO of STOPWATCH™, Meagan and her team of world-class engineers deliver a unified solution covering everything from inventory management to real-time pricing.

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André Christ, CEO of LeanIX: Leveraging corporate experience to bootstrap a startup

Microsoft for Startups — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 19:25:08 +0000

"We spent three years bootstrapping the business, funding the company with our own money. We had pitched to two or three investors and when they passed, we just went ahead and did it ourselves."

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CustomerX.I Founder Hakeem James is leveling the retail playing field for mom-and-pop shops

Microsoft for Startups — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 21:00:00 +0000

Hakeem James served as VP of Product for one of the largest couponing companies in the world. Here he worked with global Fortune 100 retailers and saw firsthand how powerful data and data science can be in understanding and better serving customers. He also saw that the benefits of this data revolution were consolidating with the big players leaving smaller businesses with razor thin margins behind. Read what he did next

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