Alex LeBrun

CEO

Paris, Île-de-France, France25 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Cofounded multiple successful AI startups.
Developed open-source probabilistic parser Duckling.
Expert in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on AI and Natural Language Processing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingMachine Learning

Other Skills

Product DevelopmentProduct ManagementBig DataC++LinuxGo (Google Language)JavaHTML 5JavaScriptRubyProduct DesignHuman Computer InteractionClojureAlgorithmsSoftware Development

About

Cofounder of ☛ Nabla (2019, AI assistant supporting 85,000 physicians) ☛ Wit.ai (2013, YC W14, first AI startup with a .𝗮𝗶 domain 😎 acquired by Facebook) ☛ VirtuOz (2003, chatbots before AI was cool, acquired by Nuance/Microsoft) Original author of open source probabilistic parser Duckling https://github.com/facebook/duckling Also a fan of Rimbaud, Rousseau, Spinoza, Yourcenar.

Experience

Ami - advanced machine intelligence

Cofounder & CEO

Mar 2026 – Present · 0 mo · Paris, NYC, Montreal, Singapore

Nabla

Cofounder & CEO

Sep 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 6 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

Facebook

Engineering, Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR)

Jan 2015 – Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Menlo Park

Wit.ai (acquired by facebook)

Cofounder & CEO

Jun 2013 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Natural Language for apps.
Wit.ai is an AI platform that makes it easy for developers to build a Siri-like conversational interface for their app or device.

Nuance communications

VP, Special Projects

Jan 2013 – May 2013 · 4 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

Asiance

Cofounder & Director of the Board

Jun 2004 – Jun 2014 · 10 yrs · Seoul, Korea

2018 Korea Digital Agency of the year and Japan/Korea Independent agency of the year.
Cofounded the company with Kim Bosun and Olivier Mouroux.

Virtuoz (acquired by nuance communications)

Founder and CEO

Jul 2002 – Dec 2012 · 10 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

VirtuOz is the world leader in Intelligent Virtual Agents (“Siri for the Enterprise”). AT&T, Symantec, Kaspersky and others use Intelligent Virtual Agents to provide world-class, automated, personalized online marketing, sales, and support channels to their customers.
I bootstrapped the company in Paris, coded the initial product from scratch (based on an innovative, proprietary NLP approach and Machine Learning techniques), and built the development team.
Raised $2M Series A in France in 2005 and reached profitability in 2007
Moved the company to San Francisco and raised $11.4M Series B in 2008