Partnering with Kumo: Predictive AI for All

Published by: Sequoia

We are thrilled to support Hema, Jure and Vanja on their mission to make graph learning easy to use.

When I met Jure Leskovec eight years ago in a Stanford classroom, it was immediately clear that he was special. I was an AI grad student taking his CS 246: Mining Massive Datasets course, and he was the charismatic star professor. As brilliant a communicator as he was a researcher, he had the kind of energy and curiosity that made students actually want to ask questions.

I’d also heard wonderful things about Vanja Josifovski, Jure’s co-founder at Kosei, and I watched with great interest when Pinterest acquired their company the following year and they stepped into roles as the team’s new Chief Scientist (Jure) and CTO (Vanja). Together, they went on to develop cutting-edge AI, help Pinterest grow into a massive success, and cement themselves among the best graph neural networks scientists in the world.

When the two of them reached out to Sequoia in late 2020 to talk about some new ideas, we were eager to do so.

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