YouWEb III:
SOFTWARE & AI
The third batch of founders are a brilliant team of innovators who seek to push the limits on what is conventionally acceptable in all realms: payment services, AI, security platforms, and more.
TOM SIEGEL
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Founded Trust Lab in 2019, a company providing fraud protection for some of the most popular social media platforms.
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Tom also founded Google's Trust and Safety Lab and developed it into an industry leader.
JACOB COLE
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Jacob 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 so far raised $18 million over three funding rounds.
SAM SHAWKHI
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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.
HUNG TRAN
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Hung continued his time at YouWeb and founded Got It AI in 2017. It allows for conversational chat UX by leveraging natural language processing (NLP) and AI to develop virtual agents, tickets, chat experiences, and voice transcripts.
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Hung is currently the President at Got It Inc.
MICHAEL ARGAST
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Founded Kobalt.io in2018, a provider of cyber security 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.
RAKESH YADAV
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Rakesh is a former Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google where he led the development of machine learning platforms.
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He created Jarvis ML in 2021 to help companies turn data into brand engagements
Vidya Narayanan
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Founded Rizzle in 2019, a video making and sharing app which enables episodic short (60-second) videos, making it the platform for user-generated, short vertical series.
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Vidya is currently the CEO at Rizzle.
INVESTORS
YouWeb III is funded by a network of investors who were executives and founders at other companies like Yahoo, Google, Oracle and Microsoft.
Bill
BROUGHER
Bill is a senior leader at Google who specializes in scaling high growth products. He is also a Fund Manager at YouWeb Incubator.
S.
SOMASEGAR
Soma is a Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group where he focuses on areas including Machine Learning & AI, VR & AR, next generation cloud infrastructure, and intelligent applications.
PRAFUL
SHAH
Praful is a Cloud Business Executive with a background in business strategy, marketing, product marketing, and business development. He is the former CSO of RingCentral Inc.
FraNCOISE
BROUGHER
Francoise more than 25 years of business and operations experience at companies including Google, Square and Pinterest. She is currently a Board Member of the Compensation Committee and Nomination Committee at Sodexo.