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Monetizing Open Source Projects
Talks about Open Source, Homomorphic Encryption and Startup
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Rand Hindi
Founder of Zama
Paris, Île-de-France
Overview
Rand Hindi is the Co-Founder & CEO of Zama, a notable achievement in his career. He has also co-founded and served as CEO of Snips, showcasing his entrepreneurial acumen and leadership skills in the tech industry.
Work Experience
Co-founder & CEO
2019 - Current
Zama’s mission is to make the internet encrypted end to end by democratizing the use of homomorphic encryption.
Advisor
2022
CrunchDAO is a decentralized market neutral hedge fund backed by 1500 quants and data scientists. I help them with strategic product and fundraising decisions.
Advisor
2021
I am an investor and advisor at Mindstate, who uses AI to develop new psychedelic treatments for mental health disorders. I help the team on the AI related aspects.
Mindstate Design Labs is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing the next generation of psychedelic-inspired therapeutics.
Raised $24,323,587.00 from Hub Angels Investment Group, Immeasurable, PsyMed Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Negev Capital, Initialized Capital, Rand Hindi, Apoorva Mehta, Max Hodak and Fred Ehrsam.
Advisor
2021
I am an investor and advisor at Chipiron, who is building a cheaper, transportable, high resolution MRI. I help the team on their various strategic, IP and venture topics.
Advisor
2018 - 2021
I am part of the Naval Innovation Hub, a strategic innovation advisory group. I focus particularly on AI and cybersecurity.
Lecturer
2017 - 2021
Teaching a course to Masters's student on the principles and applications of Privacy-by-Design, covering the history, design, business, technical, societal and academic aspects.
Advisor
2020 - 2021
I was an advisor at Sonos following the acquisition of my previous company Snips. I focused on privacy related topics.
Sonos is a wireless multi-room music system that enables users to play music anywhere in the house and control it using a smartphone.
Raised $455,150,000.00 from EquityZen, Index Ventures and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
Co-founder & CEO
2013 - 2019
Snips (acquired by Sonos) is an Edge-based voice platform for connected devices. It enables developers and companies to add a voice assistant to their products, without sacrificing privacy or user experience.
Member
2016 - 2017
The Council issues independent opinions and recommendations on any question relating to the impact of digital technologies on economy and society. The government can consult the Council on new legislation or draft regulations.
Data Science Consultant
2008 - 2012
Specialties: - Machine Learning - Algorithmic trading - Privacy strategy - UX for data-centric products
Education
PhD
2006 - 2011
Bsc
2003 - 2006
Graduate Degree
2012 - 2013
Graduate program
2010 - 2010