Alyona Medelyan

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About Investor

Alyona Medelyan is an AI researcher, entrepreneur, and co-founder and chief executive of Thematic. She has a PhD-level background in natural-language processing and built Thematic to analyze customer feedback at scale. Her expertise is particularly relevant to AI, machine learning, NLP, analytics, enterprise SaaS, customer intelligence, and data products. Their background is particularly relevant to founders building AI, machine-learning, data, and infrastructure products. They bring perspective on the technical and commercial challenges involved in turning complex technology into products that customers can adopt at scale. Their experience can be useful around product strategy, technical differentiation, enterprise adoption, hiring, and building defensible data or platform advantages. For founders, that combination of technical fluency and company-building experience can provide valuable context as an emerging technology moves from experimentation to a scalable business.