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Why I Make My Employees — Not My Customers — My Top Priority
Talks about Employee Engagement, Ycombinator and Startup
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Oleg Rogynskyy
Founder of People.ai
San Francisco, California
Overview
Oleg Rogynskyy is the Founder & CEO of SalesAI for Fortune500 companies, having raised $200M from notable investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Y Combinator. He has successfully invested in a wide range of companies in sectors like Cybersecurity, Real Estate/PropTech, Sales & CRM, Data Services, AI, Analytics, and FinTech, showcasing a strong track record in entrepreneurship and strategic advisory roles.
Rogynskyy's career highlights include founding People.ai, serving as a Strategic Advisor at the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, and making impactful investments in companies such as Resquared, Pomerium, and Product Science, demonstrating a keen eye for successful ventures and a strong network within the tech and startup ecosystem.
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2016 - Current
Overview of our vision in this Andreessen Horowitz podcast: https://a16z.com/2019/10/23/ai-in-b2b/
People.ai is an AI platform that provides workflow-based applications to transform business activities and increase sales productivity.
Raised $200,001,000.00 from Nimesh Kampani and Ballistic Ventures.
Strategic Advisor
2022
When the war started, I ended up at the intersection of Silicon Valley tech and the Ukrainian government. This led to a number of projects: turning off Google & Apple Maps Traffic layer which was exposing Ukrainian convoys; blocking Russian military from using US cloud services; after Ukrainian satellite command was destroyed early in the war helped rebuild a satellite intelligence pipeline on par with NATO’s using private satellite tech; taking down propaganda websites at scale; and working with SpaceX to deliver 20k+ Starlink kits to maintain critical government, military and humanitarian connectivity throughout the country.
Angel Investor
2019
50+ investments. Spearhead class of Winter 2019.
AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.
Raised $170,200,000.00 from Beyond Capital, FJ Labs, Nomad Ventures, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Sprint Vc, Ride Home Fund, Palumni VC, Vishal Rao and Tiger Global Management.
Investor & Advisor
2020
Pano uses deep learning AI and computer vision to automatically detect, verify and classify wildfire events in real time.
Raised $45,000,000.00 from January Ventures, 5G Open Innovation Lab, Convective Capital, T-Mobile Ventures, Jade Van Doren, Congruent Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Initialized Capital, Salesforce Ventures and Kevin Mahaffey.
Investor
2022
Neon is an open-source database company that offers a serverless Postgres platform that allows developers to build applications.
Raised $129,600,000.00 from Notable Capital, Abstract, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Menlo Ventures and General Catalyst.
Investor
2022
Regrello is a network of manufacturing companies for supplier collaboration and automation of manufacturing and supply chain processes.
Raised $25,200,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, Position Ventures and Tiger Global Management.
Investor
2021
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2022
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2021
Mozart Data provides an out-of-the-box modern data stack. Easily consolidate and prepare data for analysis without any engineering.
Raised $19,125,000.00 from Tapestry VC, Craft Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Spearhead, Goldcrest Capital, TGM ventures and Apollo Projects.
Investor
2021
Chameleon is a customer relationship management software company.