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Micha Y. Breakstone

Founder of Somite Therapeutics

Austin, Texas

Overview 

Micha Y. Breakstone is the Co-Founder and CEO of Somite.ai, having previously held leadership roles at Neuralight.ai and Chorus.ai. With a background in patent drafting and expertise in natural language processing, Breakstone has made significant contributions to the fields of AI and IoT, investing in startups at the seed stage in Austin and Israel. Breakstone's career highlights include co-founding successful companies like Neuralight.ai and Chorus.ai, as well as holding key positions at Intel Corporation and Ginger Software, showcasing a strong track record of leadership and innovation in the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Co-founder and CEO

    2023 - Current

    Somite.ai is on a mission to transform the lives of millions of people suffering from musculoskeletal and metabolic diseases by developing a digital twin of the embryo and leveraging AI to produce human tissue for cell-based therapies.

Somite is leveraging data and AI to introduce novel cell replacement therapies.

Raised $10,295,000.00 from TechAviv, Mark Ventures, Darkmode Ventures, Nachum “Homi” Shamir, Next Coast Ventures, Texas Venture Partners, BC Growth Equity, Astellas Venture Management, Conscience VC and Trust Ventures.

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2021 - 2023

  • Co-Founder and President

    2015 - 2019

    Acquired by ZoomInfo

Chorus.ai is an AI conversation intelligence cloud platform for sales team that can transform conversations into data and insights.

Raised $100,300,000.00 from Sozo Ventures, Emergence, Redpoint and Georgian.

  • Scientific Advisory Board

    2013 - 2015

    Privileged to work with an amazing team!

  • Manager of the Statistical NLP group

    2014 - 2014

    Managed the transition of the SNLP group acquired by Intel

An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.

  • Vice President, R&D, PA Platform

    2013 - 2014

    Founded and managed the PA Platform business unit, acquired by Intel.

  • Vice President, NLP Platform

    2012 - 2013

  • Chief Linguist & Linguistic Infrastructure Team Leader

    2011 - 2012

    Linguistic layer of Ginger's algorithm: Redesign & management of implementation

Ginger develops mobile keyboards and writing enhancement apps that make it easy to quickly write high-quality text.

Raised $11,700,000.00 from Horizons Ventures and Harbor Pacific Capital.

  • Consultant

    2011 - 2011

    Formal constultant on NLP algorithms, facilitated MVP

  • Founder & CEO

    2010 - 2011

    ExceLingo's mission is to be the world's leading provider of language learning applications for mobile phones. ExceLingo recently advanced to the semi-finals stage of the prestigious 2011 MIT $100K competition.

  • Lab Manager

    2010 - 2011

    Manager of the Syntax and Semantics Experimental Lab at MIT http://web.mit.edu/hackl/www/lab/

  • Chief Linguist

    2009 - 2010

    Responsible for the strategic direction of semantic and sentiment analysis, and the successful execution of the company's goals and objectives in this domain.

  • Linguistic Algorithm Engineer

    2008 - 2009

    NLP (=natural language processing) Writing rulebooks for CRF(=conditional random fields) assisted relations linguistic extraction

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