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YouWeb III:
PLATFORMS & AI

YouWeb's third iteration shifted its model from an incubator to accelerator. The innovators in this cohort are pushing the limits on what is conventionally acceptable in all realms: payment services, AI, security platforms, and more.

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TOM SIEGEL

Co- Founder & CEO of TrustLab

  • Founded Trust Lab in 2019, a company providing fraud protection for some of the most popular social media platforms.

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  • Founded Google's Trust and Safety Lab and developed it into an industry leader. 

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JACOB COLE

Co- Founder & CEO of IdeaFlow

  • Spun Ideaflow out of MIT in 2015 based on work done with Tim Berners-Lee to extend the human mind into the computer. Their core product, a human-AI hybrid web platform allows analysts to connect siloed information banks, discover new information, and collaborate.

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  • Ideaflow has raised $18 million over three funding rounds so far.

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SAM SHAWKHI

Co- Founder & CEO of MagicCube

  • Founded MagicCube in 2014, a device independent IoT security platform. It is the first fully functioning software replacement for traditional payment acceptance terminals; it's ready to go and is easily integrated into apps, with just one API.​

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  • Sam is currently the CEO at MagicCube and a board member on the PCI Security Standard Council. 

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SREERAM KANNAN

Founder of EigenLabs

  • CEO at EigenLabs, a protocol built on Ethereum that introduces restaking, a new primitive in cryptoeconomic security, which enables the reuse of ETH on the consensus layer.

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  • Sreeram was a professor at the University of Washington and Head of the UW Blockchain Lab

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ROHIT KALYANPUR

Founder and CEO of Optivolt

  • Dropped out of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne in 2018 to start building Optivolt, the world's leading shade tolerant solar system.

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  • Listed on Forbes 30 under 30- Energy (2020).

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  •  Awarded the Thiel Fellowship (2019).

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MICHAEL ARGAST

Co-Founder & CEO of Kobalt.io

  • Founded Kobalt.io in2018, a provider of cybersecurity programs addressing the needs of small and mid-sized organizations. ​

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  • Michael is currently the CEO at Kobalt.io and works with over 150 client teams with limited security staff but lots of innovation.

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RAKESH YADAV

Founder and CEO of AIDAPTIVE

  • Former Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google where he led the development of machine learning platforms.

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  • Created Jarvis ML in 2021 to help companies turn data into brand engagements

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