Team

World-Class Founding Team

The creators of AI and discovery engines behind the most successful search and e-commerce companies — now building the next generation of visual commerce AI. The team that delivered AI/ML, e-commerce, streaming and B2B software at scale.

Alexander Samarin

Alexander
Samarin

LinkedIn
Strategy
  • CPO AI, Search & Discovery at $45B GMV marketplace (Wildberries)
  • Head of Video Search Products, Yandex
  • Shipped products to AT&T, BT, LG, Viber, Toshiba and 120+ others
Natalya Baygarova

Natalya
Baygarova

LinkedIn
Product
  • Head of CV & Neural Nets, Yandex
  • 2 AI patents, billions queries/month
  • Winner, Intl Fashion AI Challenge
Dmitry Ladaev

Dmitry
Ladaev

LinkedIn
CEO
  • Engineering Manager, Yandex ML Systems
  • Operations & admin leadership
  • Scalable AI infrastructure
Alexander Osipov

Alexander
Osipov

LinkedIn
Technology
  • Sr. Engineer, Yandex CV team
  • End-to-end ML pipeline architect
  • Production systems at scale
Jens Strohschneider

Jens
Strohschneider

LinkedIn
Biz Dev
  • 25+ yrs B2B Sales & Marketing
  • Global: APAC, MEA, Europe, Latam
  • Telecom, Digital Marketing, Cybersecurity
250+ man-months of R&D Tier 1 customers in the portfolio $65B+ combined platform scale