AI, product, and law.
At the same table.

Matt Günhan Ertosun, PhD

Stanford PhD in Electrical Engineering, with master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Financial Mathematics (all from Stanford), followed by Stanford Medicine postdoctoral & research fellowships focused on AI research funded by NIH & NCI (National Cancer Institute).

Experience building regulated AI products at ZONARE Medical Systems, Vave Health, and RadSupport, where he was co-founder and CTO. Previously a co-founder at an a16z Speedrun company in real-time audio AI.

Hitesh Anand Gupta

Employee #10 at Otter.ai (2017–2025). Built speaker diarization from zero, then led the streaming real-time version. Named inventor on 12 of 19 Otter patent filings in the public record.

Earlier work at Knowles/Audience included wake-word detection and voice verification on devices and in noisy environments. Brings production experience in the systems that identify who is speaking, live.

Raj Abhyanker

Founder of Trademarkia and PatentVC, with experience building companies and bringing intellectual property into commercial use.

An intellectual property attorney and federal litigator whose work includes patent counsel for NVIDIA. Brings the legal and governance perspective to the product and company from the start.

Inventor of Nextdoor and founding CEO of its predecessor, taken from inception through Series A and Series B before exit to Google. Patents he authored have been licensed or sold for over $1 billion.