Micha Y. Breakstone
Founder of Somite Therapeutics
Austin, Texas
Overview
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