Listen Here

| |

Conversation
Highlights

 

In today’s episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Igor Jablokov, CEO of Pryon, an AI-powered enterprise knowledge management platform that’s raised more than $50 Million in funding.

Topics Discussed:

  • Igor’s background in the tech industry, working with Apple to create Siri, and the state of AI today
  • A great Bill Gates quote about our biases when thinking about the short and the long term
  • Why the man Igor most admires is Benjamin Franklin
  • Facing disbelief when introducing innovative ideas, and why Igor doesn’t care about how other people define certain things
  • Regulation in the AI industry and where AI is headed

 

Recommended Founder
Interviews

Vahan Petrosyan

CEO & Co-Founder of SuperAnnotate

Vahan Petrosyan, CEO & Co-Founder of SuperAnnotate: $53 Million Raised to Build the Future of AI Training Data Infrastructure

Gabriel Bayomi Tinoco Kalejaiye

CEO and Co-Founder of Openlayer

Gabriel Bayomi, CEO and Co-Founder of Openlayer: $4.8 Million Raised to Power the Future of Machine Learning Testing

Damien Garot

Stellar of Stellar

Damien Garot, CEO & Co-Founder of Stellar: $9.3M Raised to Build the Future of Reliable Internet Connectivity for Autonomous Vehicles

Kostas Pardalis

Co-Founder & CEO of Typedef

Why Typedef starts go-to-market activities during the design partner phase instead of after | Kostas Pardalis ($5.5M Raised)

Sud Bhatija

Co-Founder & COO of Spot AI

Sud, Co-Founder & COO of Spot AI: $93 Million Raised to Build Video AI Agents for the Physical World

Sumanyu Sharma

CEO & Founder of Hamming AI

How Hamming AI accidentally created a new category by focusing on customer problems instead of category creation | Sumanyu Sharma ($3.8M Raised)

David Plon

CEO & Co-Founder of Portrait Analytics

David Plon, CEO & Co-Founder of Portrait Analytics: $10M Raised to Build an AI-Powered Thought Partner for Institutional Investors

Richard Potter

Co-Founder and CEO of Peak

Richard Potter, Co-Founder and CEO at Peak: $118 Million Raised to Power the Future of AI-Enabled Businesses

Justin McCallon

CEO and Co-Founder of Callidus Legal AI

How Callidus scaled Google ads from 3 to 40 leads per day | Justin McCallon

Ashley Montanaro

CEO and Co-Founder of Phasecraft

Ashley Montanaro, CEO & Co-Founder of Phasecraft: $22 Million Raised to Build the Future of Quantum Software

Alex Levin

CEO & Co-Founder of Regal AI

Alex Levin, CEO & Co-Founder of Regal AI: $82 Million Raised to Transform Customer Communication with Voice AI

Jonathan Schneider

CEO and Co-Founder of Moderne

Jonathan Schneider, CEO & Co-Founder of Moderne: $20 Million Raised to Build the Future of Code Remediation

Inna Sela

CEO & Founder of illumex

Inna Tokarev Sela, CEO & Founder of illumex: $13 Million Raised to Power the Future of Enterprise LLM Deployments

Tony Zhang

Founder & CEO of Tera AI

Tony Zhang, Founder & CEO of Tera AI: $8M Raised to Build the Future of Robotics Operating Systems

Adi Bathla

CEO & Co-Founder of Revv

Adi Bathla, CEO & Co-Founder of Revv: $33 Million Raised to Power the Future of Auto Repair

Johannes Peeters

Co-Founder & CEO of VoxelSensors

Johannes Peeters, Co-Founder & CEO of VoxelSensors: $7 Million Raised to Build the Future of Spatial Computing

Anand Gopalan

CEO and Co-Founder of Vayu Robotics

Anand Gopalan, CEO & Co-Founder of Vayu Robotics: $12.7 Million Raised to Build the Next Wave of Robotics Solutions

Kevin Allen

Head of Marketing of ValidMind

From Journalist to Marketing Leader

Suman Kanuganti

How Personal AI scales enterprise contracts by selling to COOs and business users first | Suman Kanuganti ($16M Raised)

Chandini Jain

CEO & Co-Founder of Auquan

Chandini Jain, CEO & Co-Founder of Auquan: $8 Million Raised to Transform Financial Intelligence Through AI

William Gaviria Rojas

Field CTO & Co-Founder of CoactiveAI

William Gaviria Rojas, Field CTO & Co-Founder of CoactiveAI: $44 Million Raised to Build the Future of Multimodal AI Applications

Patricia Thaine

Co-Founder & CEO of Private AI

Patricia Thaine, Co-Founder & CEO of Private AI: Over $11 Million Raised to Help Organizations Anonymize PII to Achieve Regulatory Compliance

Jorge Torres

CEO and Co-Founder of MindsDB

Jorge Torres, CEO and Co-Founder of MindsDB: $50 Million Raised to Enable Developers to Integrate Machine Learning into Applications

Roger Luo

Founder & Managing Partner of Embedding VC

Funding the Future: Roger Luo, Managing Partner at Embedding VC

Ofer Ronen

CEO & Co-Founder of Tomato.ai

Ofer Ronen, CEO & Co-Founder of Tomato.ai: $12 Million Raised to Build the Accent Softening Category

Christian Stein

CEO & Co-Founder of Threedy

Christian Stein, CEO & Co-Founder of Threedy: $11.5M Raised to Power the Future of Industrial 3D Computing Infrastructure

Jonathan Corbin

CEO & Co-Founder of Maven AGI

Jonathan Corbin, CEO and Co-Founder of Maven AGI: $28 Million Raised to Build the Future of Customer Experience

Amr Awadallah

CEO & Founder of Vectara

Amr Awadallah, CEO & Founder of Vectara: $53 Million Raised to Build the RAG-as-a-Service Category

Nilo Rahmani

CEO & Co-Founder of Thoras AI

Nilo Rahmani, CEO & Co-Founder of Thoras AI: $6.5 Million Raised to Build the Future of AI-Powered Infrastructure Optimization

Behnam Bastani

CEO & Founder of OpenInfer

How OpenInfer discovered unexpected government traction by focusing on data ownership pain points | Behnam Bastani

Douwe Kiela

CEO and Co-Founder of Contextual AI

Douwe Kiela, CEO and Co-Founder of Contextual AI: $20 Million Raised to Build the Future of Enterprise Language Models

Glenn Manoff

CMO of Riverlane

Marketing Tech That Doesn’t Exist Yet with Riverlane’s CMO

Sauraj Gambhir

Co-Founder of Prior Labs

Sauraj Gambhir, Co-Founder of Prior Labs: $9 Million Raised to Build Foundation Models for Structured Data

Jonathan Dambrot

CEO and Founder of Cranium

Jonathan Dambrot, CEO and Founder at Cranium: $32 Million Raised to Power the Future of AI Security

Harry Xu

CEO and Co-Founder of Breeze ML

Harry Xu, CEO and Co-Founder of Breeze ML: $4.6 Million Raised to Create the Future of AI Governance

Rich Taylor

Vice President of Seek AI

Rich Taylor, VP of Marketing at Seek AI: $10.5 Million Raised to Transform Data Analysis with Generative AI

Aron Kirschen

CEO of SEMRON

Aron Kirschen, CEO of SEMRON: $7.3M Raised to Build Ultra-Efficient 3D AI Chips

Daniele Grassi

CEO of Axyon AI

Daniele Grassi, CEO of Axyon AI: $5.5 Million Raised to Power the Future of Financial Markets with AI

Mike Conover

CEO & Co-Founder of Brightwave

Mike Conover, CEO & Co-Founder of Brightwave: $6M Raised to Build the Future of AI-Powered Investment Research

Anand Kulkarni

CEO of Crowdbotics

Anand Kulkarni, CEO of Crowdbotics: $58 Million Raised to Power the Future of Rapid Application Development

Davit Baghdasaryan

Co-Founder and CEO of Krisp

Davit Baghdasaryan, Co-Founder and CEO of Krisp: $19 Million Raised to Build the Voice Productivity Category

Krish Ramineni

CEO of Fireflies

Krish Ramineni, CEO of Fireflies: $19 Million Raised to Build the Future of AI Meeting Assistants

Phillip Liu

CEO of Trustero

Phillip Liu, CEO of Trustero: $8 Million Raised to Build the Future of Compliance AI

Matt Theurer

CEO & Co-Founder of HyperSpectral

Matt Theurer, CEO & Co-Founder of HyperSpectral: $8.5 Million Raised to Power the Future of AI-Powered Spectral Intelligence

Alon Talmor

CEO & Founder of Ask-AI

Alon Talmor, CEO & Founder of Ask-AI: $20 Million Raised to Power the Future of Enterprise AI

David DeWolf

CEO & President of Knownwell

David DeWolf, CEO & President of Knownwell: $2 Million Raised to Build the Future of Commercial Intelligence

Malte Pietsch

CTO & Co-Founder of Deepset

Malte Pietsch, CTO & Co-Founder of Deepset: $45 Million Raised to Build the Future of LLMs

Darko Vukovic

CEO & Founder of PolyAPI

Darko Vukovic, CEO & Founder of PolyAPI: $5 Million Raised to Transform Enterprise Middleware Through Native Code Developm

Sercan Esen

CEO & Co-Founder of Intenseye

Sercan Esen, CEO & Co-Founder of Intenseye: $93 Million Raised to Transform Workplace Safety Through AI-Powered Computer Vision

Ariel Katz

CEO of Sisense

Ariel Katz: The Story of Sisense ($1+ Billion Valuation)

Jayashree Rajan

CMO of Nexla

From Engineer to CMO — Lessons From Jayashree Rajan’s Journey

Krishna Gade

CEO & Founder of Fiddler

Krishna Gade, CEO & Founder of Fiddler: $68 Million Raised to Build the Future of AI Observability

James O’Brien

Co-Founder & COO of Ducky AI

James O’Brien, Co-Founder & COO of Ducky: $2.7 Million Raised to Build Internal Data Search for LLMs

Tanay Kothari

CEO and Co-Founder of Wispr Flow

How Wispr Flow manufactured viral moments by personally onboarding 500 users on Google Meet | Tanay Kothari ($56M Raised)

Rick Bentley

Founder of Cloudastructure

Rick Bentley, Founder of Cloudastructure: $57 Million Raised to Build the Future of AI Video Surveillance

Ryan Alshak

CEO & Founder of Laurel

Ryan Alshak, CEO & Founder of Laurel: $55.7 Million Raised to Build the Future of Gen AI for Timekeeping

Jason Corso

Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Voxel 51

Jason Corso, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Voxel 51: $15.5 Million Raised to Build the Future of Developer Tools for Machine Learning

Ryan Sevey

CEO of Mantium

Ryan Sevey, CEO of Mantium: $12 Million Raised to Help Teams Deploy and Monitor their AI Process Automations

Tom Trowbridge

Co-Founder of Fluence Labs

Tom Trowbridge, co-founder of Fluence Labs: $9 Million Raised to Build the Future of Decentralized P2P Computing

Nikola Borisov

CEO & Co-Founder of Deep Infra

Nikola Borisov, CEO & Co-Founder of Deep Infra: $9 Million Raised to Build the Future of AI Model Hosting

Jeong-Suh Choi

CEO of Bobidi

Jeong-Suh Choi, CEO Bobidi: Nearly $6 Million raised to Deliver Better, More Inclusive AI Solutions for Developers

Don Gossen

CEO & Founder of Nevermined

How Nevermined coined “AI commerce” in 2023 to create category language before market adoption | Don Gossen

Alan Cowen

CEO and Founder of Hume AI

Alan Cowen, CEO and Founder of Hume AI: Over $17 Million Raised to Measure and Improve How Technology Affects Human Emotion

Barbara Lewis

CMO of Coactive AI

The Siebel vs Salesforce Truth Every B2B Marketer Should Know

Linda Watkins

SVP of Marketing of Edge Impulse

The Founder Whisperer: A Marketing Leader’s Guide to Technical CEOs

Bob van Luijt

CEO and Co-Founder of Weaviate

Bob van Luijt, CEO and Co-Founder of Weaviate: Over $67 Million Raised to Power the Future of Vector Databases

Ravin Thambapillai

CEO and Co-Founder of Credal

Ravin Thambapillai, CEO and Co-Founder of Credal: $5 Million Raised to Build the Future of AI Security

Joe Witt

CEO & Co-Founder of Datavolo

Joe Witt, CEO & Co-Founder of Datavolo: $21 Million Raised to Unlock the Potential of Unstructured Data for AI

David Reger

CEO of NEURA Robotics

David Reger, CEO of NEURA Robotics: €185M Raised to Power the Future of Cognitive Robotics

Deirdre Mahon

VP of Marketing of super{set}

Why Marketing Beats Sales Hiring at AI Startups

Deon Nicholas

CEO & Co-Founder of Forethought

Deon Nicholas, CEO & Co-Founder of Forethought: $92 Million Raised to Power the Future of Customer Support with AI

Jorge Penalva

CEO & Co-Founder of Lang AI

Jorge Penalva, CEO of Lang.ai: $40 Million+ Raised to Build the Customer Experience Operations Category

Alex Sambvani

CEO & Co-Founder of Slang AI

Alex Sambvani, CEO & Co-Founder of Slang AI: $20 Million Raised to Power the Future of Voice AI for Restaurants

Meryem Arik

CEO & Co-Founder of Titan ML

Meryem Arik, CEO and Co-Founder of TitanML: $2.8 Million Raised to Revolutionize LLM Deployment