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Opportunity

While my co-founder, Jamal, and I were at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, COVID hit and the world went remote. We commercialized our research on the hallmarks of effective virtual meetings into a real-time, AI-based platform for behavioral intelligence.

Insight

Infrastructure providers were already in play (Zoom, Teams, etc.), providing the platform for virtual meetings. Productivity tools popped up quickly (whiteboards, transcription services, etc.) to help with the “rituals” of virtual meetings. But no one was addressing the most important aspect of online interactions: how does the professional self (behavior) need to change in the virtual office.

Idea

Based on our own proprietary research done at Stanford in the areas of consumer psychology and behavioral economics, we built Ingage, “a virtual room with a view.” Using audio and video signals, we used computer vision, NLP, and other data to restore the important “behavioral” cues lost in remote interactions so professionals could “read the virtual room,” performing as well (or better) than if they were in the actual room. Ingage was acquired in ‘23 by Vidcruiter.