Rand Hindi, PhD

Dr. Hindi is an entrepreneur and deeptech investor. He is the CEO at Zama, an open source homomorphic encryption company, and an investor in more than 30 companies across privacy, AI, blockchain, medtech, and psychedelics. Dr. Hindi started coding at the age of 10, founding a social network at 14 and a web agency at 15 before getting into machine learning at 18 and starting a PhD at 21. He then created Snips, an AI startup that was acquired by Sonos and is now powering the voice assistant in over 20 million devices.

Dr. Hindi has been elected as a TR35 by the MIT Technology Review and as a "30 under 30" by Forbes, was a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris, and is an advisor to multiple companies. He was previously a member of the French Digital Council where he focused on AI and Privacy issues. Dr. Hindi holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from University College London as well as two graduate degrees from Singularity University in Silicon Valley and THNK in Amsterdam.