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Rob May

Executive Chairman at BrandGuard.ai

New York, New York

Overview 

Rob May is a 4x Founder and Multi-Stage Tech Investor with over 100 AI investments, currently serving as the Executive Chairman of BrandGuard.ai and the Co-Founder of AI Innovators Community (AIC). His career highlights include founding successful startups like Backupify and Talla, and making significant investments in various tech companies such as Proton.ai and Root AI.

Work Experience 

  • Executive Chairman

    2024 - Current

    BrandGuard ingests brand guidelines and sample content and uses it to build dozens of AI models that then automate the process of checking that all customer facing content meets brand standards.

  • Founder / CEO

    2022 - 2024

BrandGuard is the revolutionary AI-powered platform that helps companies ensure brand consistency.

  • Co-Founder AI Innovator's Community

    2022

    Cofounded a global community of AI related events with Abhi Yadav

AI Innovators Community is a non profit organization.

  • Co-Founder and Managing Director

    2016

    3 Funds since 2016, and over 100 investments made across multiple technology stages.

  • Venture Partner

    2021 - 2022

  • General Partner

    2019 - 2021

    After starting and running 2 companies and making 74 early stage investments, I joined PJC as a General Partner. We invest all over North America, pre-seed, seed, and series a. I focus on AI, Robotics, and Neurotechnology investments.

PJC is an early-stage venture capital firm with a focus on enterprise, consumer, and artificial intelligence.

  • CTO and Cofounder

    2021 - 2022

Dianthus is the world’s only AI-first E-commerce company – built from the ground up to help small to medium E-commerce brands.

Raised $11,500,000.00 from LAUNCH, Alumni Ventures, PJC and Underscore VC.

  • Co-Founder/Executive Chair

    2019 - 2021

  • CEO/CoFounder

    2015 - 2019

    Machine intelligence, virtual assistants, conversational UI/UX.

Talla Brings AI-Powered Automation to Service and Support Teams

Raised $12,326,848.00 from Knockout Capital.

  • Independent Board Member

    2017 - 2021

  • SVP of Business Development

    2014 - 2015

    Integration of Backupify acquisition, managing ISV partner relationships, etc

  • CEO and Co-Founder

    2008 - 2014

    Backupify provides a secure second copy of your cloud data. Our primary products are automated backup solutions for Salesforce and Google Apps.

Backupify is a backup technology provider for cloud-based data, offering archiving, search and restore solutions for online services.

Raised $22,525,000.00 from Symantec Ventures, Lowercase Capital, NortonLifeLock, Avalon Ventures and General Catalyst.

  • Board Member

    2013 - 2014

    Independent Board Member

Mill33 offers technology solutions that enables digital publishers to send emails to their customers.

Raised $495,000.00.

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