Name: Chorus.ai
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We Believe Conversations Are the Heartbeat of Organizations and Relationships

We’re passionate about voices, language, technology, and the conversations that matter. Today there is no record or understanding of the countless conversations we have every day, their effectiveness or their outcomes. In an age of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, conversations between a business and its market are the most human, valuable, yet ignored source of data on your customer's needs and how you serve them and sell to them.

Our Leadership

Jim Benton, CEO of Chorus.ai, is a revenue generating visionary; translating customer needs into innovative solutions. As Co-Founder of ClearSlide and later as CEO of Apollo, Jim helped create the Sales Engagement category. From Evite to AdBrite to ClearSlide, Jim has expanded new categories and scaled revenue teams to grow from zero to tens of millions in high margin SaaS revenue. Beginning his career as a practitioner, Jim credits his success to a highly successful and methodical SMB + Enterprise sales motion. He is still part of YC-Backed Apollo’s board.

Roy is the President of Chorus.ai, which is pioneering Voice AI to understand and improve business conversations. Chorus automatically captures and summarizes sales call notes, surfaces how top performers have winning sales calls, and why you win or lose deals based on the topics discussed.

Prior to founding Chorus, Roy was a Manager at Bain & Company. At Bain, he focused on technology, leading the mobile strategy team for Bain’s flagship tech client.

Roy holds a BASc in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was the first hire at Innovation Endeavors, an early stage venture fund.

Russell Levy is the founding architect at Chorus.ai. Prior to Chorus.ai, Russell founded and ran a profitable property management software platform for over a decade, serving hundreds of customers across Canada and the United States.

Russell is responsible for the majority of the original codebase for Chorus.ai, including our real-time telephony, speech recognition, NLP and machine learning technology stack. He also built much of the frameworks for training our self-learning acoustic and language models. Today, he focuses on pathfinding and prototyping upcoming functionality, scaling our systems and supporting the R&D organization. He lives in Israel with his wife and six children.

Dominik leads the product and design team at Chorus.ai, developing the next generation of Voice AI for customer conversations.

Previously, Dominik co-founded Emplido, a social network analytics company acquired by Experteer. Dominik was a consultant with Bain & Company’s technology practice and built products for Brainloop, Daimler, and Infinity.

Dominik holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from ETH Zurich and Technical University Munich and an MBA from Stanford.

Natalie is the VP of Marketing for Chorus.ai. Passionate about elevating the craft of Sales and helping B2B sales professionals win more, Natalie enjoys writing and speaking about sales technologies and trends.

Natalie loves technology - she started her career at leading technology companies like Intuit, Logitech, and Trend Micro and then found a passion for building technology starts-ups at ClearSlide, getTalent and now Chorus. She oversees all of marketing and sales development for Chorus, including product marketing, demand generation and communications.

Persha Valman leads the Finance team at Chorus.ai. She has over 20+ years experience working within the fields of accounting, finance and human resources in a variety of international settings. During this time, Persha has been extensively involved within the Israeli high tech ecosystem managing teams across the globe in New York,San Francisco, Boston, Israel and India.Prior to Chorus.ai, Persha spent 7 years at Seeking Alpha. Previously she worked at Deloitte, CFO at an Israeli VC, independent consultant and lecturer in both Israel and South Africa. Persha is a Chartered Accountant with Honors in International Tax.

Our Board Members

Gordon Ritter is a Founder and General Partner of Emergence Capital Partners. Prior to founding Emergence, he spent over 15 years founding and building companies which pioneered new markets including embedded web-based interfaces, server appliances, “On Demand” services for the SMB market and web-native application development. In 2003, Gordon led Emergence Capital’s first investment, in Salesforce.com. In 2008, Gordon invested in Industry Cloud pioneer Veeva Systems when the company had 25 employees and less than $2 million in revenue. He has played a key role in the company’s development (now a public company NYSE:VEEV) and he is currently Veeva’s Chairman. Gordon was named to the Forbes’ Midas List of the top venture capital investors in 2007, 2012, 2014 and 2015.

Prior to founding Emergence, Gordon was co-Founder and CEO of Software As Service, a web services platform company he created with Marc Benioff, the Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com. Software As Service is the origin of Salesforce.com’s Salesforce1 platform. Prior to founding Software As Service, he ran the $3 billion IBM Global Small Business division, created as a result of IBM’s acquisition of his company, Whistle Communications in 1999. He was responsible for IBM’s launch partnership with Salesforce.com. Prior to IBM, Gordon was co-Founder and President of Whistle, a pioneering Internet appliance and web services platform.

Gordon also co-founded Tribe Communications, a networking infrastructure company, and he was a VP of Capital Markets at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York.

Gordon has a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University, where he rowed on the heavyweight crew team. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and four children. He enjoys a range of endurance sports and recently summited both Denali and Aconcagua, and completed a 250-mile trail run across Switzerland.

Tomasz joined Redpoint in 2008 and has invested in Axial, Chorus.ai, Dremio, Expensify, Electric Imp, Looker, and ThredUP. He is an active blogger at Tomtunguz.com where he shares advice and learnings for entrepreneurs. He is also the co-author of Winning with Data: Transform Your Culture, Empower Your People, and Shape the Future, which explores the cultural changes big data brings to business, and shows you how to adapt your organization to leverage data to maximum effect. Tomasz has been named on the Forbes Midas Brink list.

Before joining Redpoint, Tomasz was the product manager for Google’s AdSense social-media products and AdSense internationalization.

Tomasz attended Dartmouth College, where he rowed on the crew team (Go Green!) and graduated as a George Revitz Fellow with a BA in mechanical engineering, a BE in machine learning, and a master’s degree in engineering management.

Santi is a General Partner at Emergence Capital. Prior to joining Emergence, Santi founded, AXG Tecnonexo, a SaaS e-learning company in Latin America. He expanded the company to 150+ employees with operations across Latin America and the US. Santi is also a founding board member of Puente Labs, an organization that finds and selects the best founders of high potential growth companies from Latin America and helps them scale their businesses globally.

Santi currently serves on the Boards of Civitas Learning, CrunchBase, High Alpha, Quasar, Restorando, Tophat, Xapo and Zoom.

Santi received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in Economics from St. Andrews University in Argentina. He is Kauffman Fellow and an Endeavor Entrepreneur.

Outside of work Santi is passionate about traveling internationally. He spent 6 months backpacking around the world and continues to work on a personal goal of visiting at least 50% of the world countries. He is an avid opera and classical music follower and, like almost every Argentine, he is passionate about soccer.

Simon Chong is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Georgian Partners. Prior to Georgian Partners, Simon was Worldwide Director of Sales, Information Solutions within the IBM Software Group, via the acquisition of DWL Inc., in 2005. At DWL, Simon was the Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing, where he was responsible for global field operations and achieving revenue leadership in the master data management (MDM) space.

Having spent his career in sales management, marketing and operations, Simon applies his strong operating background to helping our portfolio companies. He’s focused on designing growth strategies and helping companies develop and execute their go-to-market approach, with a particular focus on sales.

Greg Holmes was VP of Worldwide Sales for Zoom, where he built a team from zero salespeople to 1,000 worldwide and took their revenue to $600 Million annually. He also held the position of Head of Corporate Strategy before deciding to take some time off with his family. He has over twenty years of experience in the collaboration space, building high-powered virtual sales teams.