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Othello

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Founded2026
10Employees

Located in New York, New York

othello.ai
Sales / GTMAI Agents

Othello builds AI models for B2B sales calls, deploying agents to give real-time prompts to sellers.

Othello builds vertical AI models for B2B sales calls. It post-trains on customer data, then deploys its agents to live customer calls, providing real-time recommendations to sellers. Since May, Othello has scaled to $25M in enterprise pipeline. Othello is working with 30 enterprise customers, all of whom have market caps north of $2B. Since launching, Othello has improved conversion rates by over 25%. How? Customers love Othello - we have 95% DAU and more enterprise traction than every single predecessor in the category combined. Jared Zelman (CEO) has been building companies since he was 8 years old. At 18, he sold a tutoring company he founded for almost $1M then worked in PR. Raphael (CTO) was the youngest hire at Explorium and youngest eng lead at CrowdStrike. Every engineer in Othello is ex-Unit 8200, including founding eng from Dome9 (acq. Check Point), RightBound, and Linx (acq. Apple).

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Founder at Othello

Jared Zelman

- Founder of Othello.ai - Previously founded Cicero.ai - Started my first company in high school, a tutoring business I later sold for ~$900k - Interned at Summit Partners, then worked in private equity - Became the most prolific deal sourcer in Summit Partners history, acc to internal leaderboards - Also a lifelong ketchup sandwich salesman: https://www.othello.ai/about

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Founder & CTO at Othello

Raphael Assor