Founded by Luis Dussan and Adrian Kaehler, D.K.A.I brings together a team of experienced founders and innovators who have proven themselves repeatedly over each of their careers.
With seven companies founded, four successful exits, and one IPO, this team knows how to build a company.
Individually, each has the skills and experience to found new companies and tackle the hard problems.
Together, they have the skills and the experience to tackle the most exciting problems of our day.
Founder/CEO
AEye (led by Kleiner Perkins, Taiwania, General Motors), Board Member
Took
AEye public in August of 2021 (Nasdaq:LIDR)
Defense:
Former Chief Technologist for Sensors at Northrop Grumman, previously Lockheed
Martin, NASA
30+
years of Industry Leadership Experience: MSc Computational Quantum Physics, MSc
Optics & Photonics
Founder/CEO
Giant.AI (led by Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates), Board Member OpenCV
Self-Driving
Vehicle, and Robotics pioneer (DARPA Grand Challenge 1st Place, now in
Smithsonian)
Former
Magic Leap VP of Software in Foundational Team (Helped Raise over $1B in
Financing)
30+
years of Industry Leadership Experience: Ph.D. Theoretical Physics, former
Stanford AI Lab
Co-Founder
PC Chip Set Division/VLSI Technology (Organized ARM)
Ran
Product, Operations, and R&D at AEye, Part of the team that took it IPO in
2021
Former
Mayfield Fund, ATP Fund and Autotech Ventures
43+
years of Industry Leadership Experience: B.S. Nuclear & Electrical
Engineering
Founder
and Creator of Open Computer Vision (OpenCV) – 18 Million Downloads
Chairman
of the OpenCV Foundation and Director of the Open-Source Vision Foundation
Serial
Entrepreneur, founded 3 companies, 2 exits – Industrial Perception acquired by
Google in 2012
30+
years of Industry Leadership Experience: Stanford Professor and globally
recognized leader in AI and CV
Pioneered analog cellular and CDMA vehicle connectivity at Hughes-EDS (OnStar predecessor).
Led Panasonic’s first connected-car prototype and developed Toyota EnTune/Lexus Enform.
Led Vimo development on NVIDIA Jetson, using stereo depth-sensing and OpenCV analytics.
Drove adoption of Hadoop and NiFi at Hortonworks, shaping big data analytics.
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