OSARO CEO and leadership

Derik Pridmore is an entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Osaro, a San Francisco based AI company building machine learning software for industrial automation. Derik was previously a venture capitalist, hedge fund manager, and angel investor, and has over a decade of investment and operational experience. Derik was a Principal at Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley venture fund led by PayPal founder Peter Thiel. At Founders Fund, Derik drove investments in a variety of companies including DeepMind, where he worked closely with the founding team. Derik is also an investor in New York based deep learning startup Clarifai. Prior to Osaro, Derik founded and managed Arda Capital Management, a quantitative equity hedge fund. Derik holds B.S. degrees in Physics and Computer Science (2001) and an M.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (2004) from MIT.

Michael Kahane is a CTO at Osaro Inc and is based in San Francisco, California. He has worked as Machine Learning Research at Freelance, Senior System Engineer at TeraCross, and Application Group Manager at Samsung Semiconductors - Israel Research Center. Michael works or has worked as Employee at Osaro Inc. He attended Ben-Gurion University of The Negev between 1993 and 1996 and Ben-Gurion University of The Negev between 2003 and 2005.

Derik Pridmore is an entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Osaro, a San Francisco based AI company building machine learning software for industrial automation. Derik was previously a venture capitalist, hedge fund manager, and angel investor, and has over a decade of investment and operational experience. Derik was a Principal at Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley venture fund led by PayPal founder Peter Thiel. At Founders Fund, Derik drove investments in a variety of companies including DeepMind, where he worked closely with the founding team. Derik is also an investor in New York based deep learning startup Clarifai. Prior to Osaro, Derik founded and managed Arda Capital Management, a quantitative equity hedge fund. Derik holds B.S. degrees in Physics and Computer Science (2001) and an M.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (2004) from MIT.

Michael Kahane is a CTO at Osaro Inc and is based in San Francisco, California. He has worked as Machine Learning Research at Freelance, Senior System Engineer at TeraCross, and Application Group Manager at Samsung Semiconductors - Israel Research Center. Michael works or has worked as Employee at Osaro Inc. He attended Ben-Gurion University of The Negev between 1993 and 1996 and Ben-Gurion University of The Negev between 2003 and 2005.