Co-Founder / COO at Ghosted
Adrien Guilmineau
Product Lead at Rippling, Head of Product at Hofy (aq. Deel $150m), Co-Founder & CEO/CTO: Aria (AI video captioning, 30k prosumers, Stride.VC), Co-Founder & CEO: Sidekick (B2B marketplace for coaching, $1m revenue, Afore Capital).
Questions & Answers
Why are you excited about your company/product?
Dating is overlooked by S-Tier founders. Yet as an industry: it's one where incumbents are struggling ($MTCH or $BMBL), with strong tailwind of growth (more people meet online) and strong monetization (Facebook North America level). In the next 12-18 months, datings app will crumble under AI avatars, AI face tuning, AI filters... This will be devastating for user experience. Ghosted will be the first place on the internet where all content is 100% authentic. We will build a data moat with our superior AI fake detection & content-first approach. We will leverage our authenticity-only brand and community to win everywhere.
How is your team uniquely positioned to solve the problem you're tackling?
Our team has been building consumer social products for over 10 years. We have a track record of pushing the limit of what technology offers: - Fastest growing Facebook Messenger Bot ever (2017) - First AR playable lenses on Snapchat (100m users, 2018) - First AR building filter on Snap (Eiffel Tower & Moon, 2018) - First AI avatar influencer selling NFTs art (2019) - First AI-powered mobile video editing tool (2020, pre ChatGPT) - First on-device AI-powered mobile email client (2021, talk to use about email tech 🥲) We learned from great institutions: - Rippling, compound startups - Mila, Oxford, Berkeley, ENS, best AI labs in the world Together we've build 8 companies and raised over $10m from investors like Sequoia, Stride.VC or Afore.
