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Phonic

Winter 2020 · Acquired

The best way to collect and analyze voice and video feedback

Location: Foster City, CA, US

Founded: 2019

Team size: 8

Founders

  • David FerrisFounder

    David graduated from The University of Waterloo with a degree in Mechatronics Engineering. He worked as a software engineer at Google on real-time ad auctions, and as an AI engineer at Uber on Global Intelligence. After this he was co-founder & CEO of Phonic (W20) and sold the startup in 2023 to Infillion, an LA-based ad-tech company. David is passionate about distributed systems, AI, and social entrepreneurship.

  • Mitchell CatoenFounder

    AI, self-custody, trading systems. Google -> Phonic -> Phantom