AI Document Engineering

Grammarly Announces Investment in Docugami

(SAN FRANCISCO, CA – May 13, 2020) – Grammarly, the San Francisco-based provider of AI-powered digital writing assistant technology, today announced it had invested in Docugami’s seed funding round, which closed earlier this year.

In a statement on the company’s blog, Grammarly CEO Brad Hoover said “This is Grammarly’s first investment in another company. We feel strong alignment with Docugami’s team and vision, and we took this step with much thought and deliberation. We’re excited to play a part in their future!”

The Team

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

JEAN PAOLI

Co-Founder

Jean Paoli, a pioneer in the field of document engineering, is one the inventors of XML and, during his time at Microsoft, started 4 >$1B businesses for the company: the XML effort, Microsoft InfoPath, the modern Microsoft Office file formats and Microsoft’s open-source subsidiary that enabled today's massive open source usage in Azure. In addition he has created two startups with the renowned Inria.

Ecole Des Ponts • Inria Startups • Microsoft

ENGINEERING

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

ANDREW BEGUN

Co-Founder

Andrew was an Engineering Manager at Microsoft who co-created Microsoft InfoPath and was responsible for shipping critical parts of Windows.

Carnegie-Mellon • Microsoft

ARCHITECTURE

MARTIN SAWICKI

Co-Founder

Martin was an Engineering Manager at Microsoft where he co-created the Microsoft Office APIs, played a leadership role in Word and led the Java support effort in Azure. At Princeton, he studied CS, with a concentration in AI and cognitive studies.

Princeton • Microsoft

TECHNOLOGY

MIKE PALMER

Co-Founder

Mike was an Engineering Manager at Microsoft and co-created Microsoft InfoPath. Mike also co-created the AI Scheduling Assistant currently piloted in Microsoft Outlook.

University of Washington • Microsoft

PRODUCT

TAQI JAFFRI

Co-Founder

Taqi was a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft responsible for shipping critical parts of Windows. Taqi also co-created the AI technology driving Microsoft presence in physical stores.

Stanford • Microsoft

PRODUCT

ZUBIN RUSTOM WADIA

Zubin is an engineer, product creator, and startup entrepreneur. He has built over 100 technology products for government, public safety,healthcare, banking and insurance sectors. He received his MBA from theMIT Sloan School of Management.

MIT Sloan School • Imagework Technologies

PRODUCT

SWAGATIKA SARANGI

Swagatika brings 8+ years of experience leading product design, systemdesign, and API design for large scale projects, and managing projects forretail, manufacturing, and education enterprises. She holds both an MBAand a Master’s in Information Systems and Operations.

ITU • University of Florida • Softpath • EPIQ

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

MICHAEL TARON

Michael was a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, working on natural language processing on the OneNote team. He previously worked on the Microsoft Whiteboard app and XAML tools in Visual Studio.

WWU • Boeing • Microsoft

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

ERIC WHITE

Eric brings 35 years of experience in systems analysis and software development. He specializes in document formats, and has architected, designed and coded extensive enterprise-class applications and systems, including critical systems for multinational organizations.

Author • Microsoft • OECD

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

MANAR SHEHADEH

Manar is an innovative C/C++ software engineer with 4+ years of software design experience as a technical lead for a startup company. She also worked at Microsoft on developer tools and Azure-related projects.

Technion • Microsoft • Optima design automation

INTERN, AI PhD STUDENT

KAITLYN ZHOU

Kaitlyn is starting a PhD in AI and HCI at Stanford after a Masters in CS & AI at UW; At Docugami, she focuses on User Experience, NLP & AI. She completed internships at Bloomberg & Twitter.

University of Washington • Stanford

INTERN, CS BS STUDENT

KUSH GUPTA

Kush is a CS undergrad student and a research assistant at the UW. Kush focuses on Distributed Systems, Databases, Programming Languages and Compilers. Kush also completed an internship at Google.

University of Washington

INTERN, CS BS STUDENT

JEROME PALIAKKARA

Jerome is a Computer Science undergrad student focusing on Data Science at the University of Washington. He has been a research assistant at the University and has also completed an internship at GE.

University of Washington

SCIENCE

CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER

LUIS MARTI

Luis is a world-renowned AI-Scientist in machine learning and evolutionary computation who has more than 70 peer-reviewed AI publications and 30 R&D collaborations over 20 years in the AI & ML industry.

Carlos III de Madrid • FederalFluminense • Inria

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

STEVE DEROSE

Steve, PhD Linguistics, with over 50 publications and former Brown University researcher, is a distinguished scientist noted for his contributions to NLP, Computational Linguistics and to key standards related to document processing.

Brown University • NationalLibrary of Medicine

AI SCIENTIST

CHRISTINA PAVLOPOULOU

Christina is an experienced AI scientist focused on natural language understanding. At Alexa Internet, she developed algorithms for internet data. Her work at Xerox Parc centered on scanned document understanding, behavior change, and conversation analysis. She received her MS and PhD from Purdue University.

Purdue • Xerox Parc • Alexa Internet

INTERN, AI PhD STUDENT

YUE ZHANG

Yue is an PhD student in AI and CS at the University of Washington. Yue's research is in computational biology and machine learning. Yue has completed internships at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Google.

Brown University •
University of Washington

INTERN, AI PhD STUDENT

KEVIN LIU

Kevin is an AI PhD student and a research assistant at the University of Washington. Kevin's research is in computational statistics, applying Bayesian AI to extract better insights. Kevin also completed an internship at Alibaba.

University of Washington

INTERN, AI PhD STUDENT

JOSHUA FAN

Joshua is starting a PhD in AI at Cornell and is finalizing an MS in AI at the University of Washington; he has completed 3 internships at Facebook and done research involving NLP, computer vision, and computational biology.

University of Washington • Cornell

INTERN, AI MS STUDENT

ZHAOFENG WU

Zhaofeng is an AI MS student at UW with a double degree in Linguistics (B.A) and Computer Science (B.S). His research is in NLP/ML under the direct supervision of Professor Fei Xia. He has completed an intership at Axon with an upcoming one at FB.

University of Washington

INTERN, AI BS STUDENT

ANDREW HOANG

Andrew is an AI BS student and a research assistant at the University of Washington. Andrew focuses on computer vision using machine learning . Andrew also completed internships at Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2).

University of Washington

SCIENCE ADVISORS

SCIENCE ADVISOR

Una-May O'Reilly

Una-May is the leader of the ALFA Group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, focusing on scalable machine learning, evolutionary algorithms, large-scale knowledge mining, prediction and analytics.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SCIENCE ADVISOR

Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Hannaneh is an AI/NLP researcher at the University of Washington and leverages two complementary developments in the field of AI - symbolic representation and end-to-end deep learning neural models.

University of Washington

SCIENCE ADVISOR

Kalyanmoy Deb

Deb holds the Herman E. & Ruth J. Koenig Endowed Chair at Michigan State University and has contributed fundamental advances to the evolutionary computation AI field, with 100,000+ Google Scholar citations.

Michigan State University

SCIENCE ADVISOR

Marc Schoenauer

Marc is the leader at Inria of the TAU AI team that aims to tackle the vagueness of the Big Data purposes. Marc is helping to define an AI strategy for France as one of the few French mathematicians recognized in this field.

Inria

SCIENCE ADVISOR

Vincent Quint

Vincent is a luminary of the Document Engineering field. Vincent led fundamental research in semi-structured documents at Inria and headed the W3C Document Formats Domain.

Inria • W3C

BUSINESS

CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER

ALAN YATES

Alan jumpstarted and drove Sales & Marketing in 4 successful startups. He also created the Microsoft Worldwide Partner program, led the Microsoft Office Business Strategy and Worldwide Education Sales & Marketing .

Harvard • Stanford • Microsoft

COMMUNICATIONS

MARK MURRAY

Mark served as GM, Corporate Communications, at Microsoft and VP of Global Engagement & Communications at global health innovator PATH, driving strategic communications with worldwide impact.

Stanford • Microsoft • PATH

DESIGN

DAVID WATSON

David is a product and brand designer focused on integrating the two into a seamless experience and has worked with numerous startups as well as Microsoft, building health apps and customer/business management platforms.

Microsoft • Animas Creative

SALES

DANE RENKERT

Dane brings 10 years of sales experience, most recently with Komiko, Seattle-area startup that improves CRM with data and machine learning. Previously, he helped bring real estate technology startup Brivity to market and started his sales career at Zillow.

WSU • Zillow • Brivity • Komiko

PARTNERSHIPS

ISABELL SHEANG

Isabell served as CMO for Kavout, an AI FinTech innovator. She previously served as director of product marketing for Allytics and held key marketing and partner engagement roles at Microsoft. She received her MBA from the University of Oxford.

Oxford • Microsoft • Kavout

OPERATIONS

HARTLEY RIEDNER

Hartley served as vice president for operations and innovation for KernelLabs, a Seattle-based startup studio, and CEO of Asidero Software. She received her MBA from the UW Foster School of Business.

UW Foster School • Kernel Labs

OPERATIONS

SANDY MORITZ

Sandy brings 34 years of experience in budget planning, payroll and financial statement, and all accounting functions. She has worked for a wide range of businesses and non-profit organizations, and her expertise will ensure smooth planning and operation as we grow.

Shoreline Community College • Edmonds College

BUSINESS ADVISORS

BUSINESS ADVISOR

Kevin Riegelsberger

Kevin was President of Avalara, Inc., raising over $200M and helping its recent IPO. He founded Epicor, one of the industry’s largest financial ERP providers and managed the ‘turn around’ of CapitalStream from struggling start-up to industry leader.

Epicor • CapitalStream • Avalara

BUSINESS ADVISOR

Charles Fitzgerald

Charles drove the platform strategy for VMWare Cloud Foundry and Microsoft .NET. Charles is a well-known Seattle-area angel investor and a highly regarded strategist for building and nurturing worldwide-level platform ecosystems.

Microsoft • VMWare • Platformonomics

BUSINESS ADVISOR

Jean-Francois Abramatic

Jeff co-lead, with Tim-Berners Lee, the W3C as its Chairman, drove ILOG's acquisition by IBM and fostered Inria's all-up relationship with startups & the industry at large. Jeff is on the European Open Science Cloud Executive Board.

Ilog • W3C • Inria

BUSINESS ADVISOR

Bob Muglia

Bob served as CEO of Snowflake Computing from 2014-2019. taking it from a tiny startup into a multi-billion-dollar powerhouse. He previously led the Office, Azure, and Server and Tools businesses at Microsoft.

Microsoft • Snowflake

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BOARD MEMBER

Jean Paoli

Ecole Des Ponts • Inria Startups • Microsoft

BOARD MEMBER

Ilya Kirnos

lya is a co-founder and CTO at SignalFire. Previously, he was a software engineer at Google from 2004-2012, serving as technical lead for Gmail Ads, Adwords Performance and Scalability, and Google Prediction Markets. After Google, he led platform development at CardSpring, a payment platform company that was acquired by Twitter.

Google • SignalFire

BOARD MEMBER

Bob Muglia

Microsoft • Snowflake

INVESTORS

SignalFire

SignalFire is the first venture capital firm structured like a technology company. We take a hybrid human + technology approach to investing and are composed of a team of world-class investors and engineers building tools and infrastructure to help with the most common founder pain points – recruiting, business development, and customer acquisition. In addition, our distributed network of 75+ advisors gives founders access to some of the world’s best entrepreneurs, product minds, and engineering leaders in virtually every key discipline and industry.

NextWorld Capital

NextWorld Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in enterprise technology startups and helps them grow into global leaders. We help entrepreneurs build and optimize the right go-to-market model and then accelerate growth with our Global Enterprise Platform, designed to bring together the best enterprise startups and 100+ of the largest global corporates as customers and partners. NextWorld’s investments include Zuora (ZUO), Gong.io and HeadSpin. NextWorld is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London and Paris.

Cutting-Edge Document Technologists and Document Users

1. Bob Muglia, former CEO of Snowflake Computing and former head of Microsoft’s Office and Azure businesses.
2. Grammarly | https://app.grammarly.com/
3. Greg Badros, former head of Google Apps; Founder and CEO of Prepared Mind Innovations.
4. Shishir Mehrotra, Co-founder and CEO, Coda, the online documents and spreadsheets company.
5. Kevin Reigelsberger, former president, Avalara.
6. Fenwick & West Investments.
7. Barry Abbott, partner, Lane Powell & Associates.
8. Alan Smith, partner, Fenwick & West.

Silicon Valley, Paris and Seattle-Area Angel Investors

1. Thomas Reardon, co-founder of CTRL-Labs, which is developing technologies to translate neural and muscular impulses to control devices, and was recently acquired by Facebook.
2. Ellen Levy, former head of corporate and business development at LinkedIn, Ellen Levy SPT.
3. Sarah Imbach, former senior executive at PayPal, LinkedIn, and 23andMe, SIAN Ventures LLC.
4. Sunil Chhaya, Silicon Valley angel investor.
5. Marc Jalabert, former executive at Microsoft Western Europe, Acequia Capital, LLC.
6. Hank Vigil, former senior vice president for strategy and partnerships at Microsoft, Acequia Capital, LLC.

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Grammarly Announces Investment in Docugami

An Open Letter to theSoftware Industry

WE CREATED DOCUMENT DYSFUNCTION.IT IS TIME TO FIX IT.

The Team

Co-Founder

Ecole Des Ponts • Inria Startups • Microsoft

ENGINEERING

Co-Founder

Carnegie-Mellon • Microsoft

Co-Founder

Princeton • Microsoft

Co-Founder

University of Washington • Microsoft

Co-Founder

Stanford • Microsoft

MIT Sloan School • Imagework Technologies

ITU • University of Florida • Softpath • EPIQ

WWU • Boeing • Microsoft

Author • Microsoft • OECD

Technion • Microsoft • Optima design automation

University of Washington • Stanford

University of Washington

University of Washington

SCIENCE

Carlos III de Madrid • FederalFluminense • Inria

Brown University • NationalLibrary of Medicine

Purdue • Xerox Parc • Alexa Internet

Brown University •University of Washington

University of Washington

University of Washington • Cornell

University of Washington

University of Washington

SCIENCE ADVISORS

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

University of Washington

Michigan State University

Inria

Inria • W3C

BUSINESS

Harvard • Stanford • Microsoft

Stanford • Microsoft • PATH

Microsoft • Animas Creative

WSU • Zillow • Brivity • Komiko

Oxford • Microsoft • Kavout

UW Foster School • Kernel Labs

Shoreline Community College • Edmonds College

BUSINESS ADVISORS

Epicor • CapitalStream • Avalara

Microsoft • VMWare • Platformonomics

Ilog • W3C • Inria

Microsoft • Snowflake

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Ecole Des Ponts • Inria Startups • Microsoft

Google • SignalFire

Microsoft • Snowflake

INVESTORS

SignalFire

NextWorld Capital

Cutting-Edge Document Technologists and Document Users

Silicon Valley, Paris and Seattle-Area Angel Investors

GET IN TOUCH

An Open Letter to the
Software Industry

WE CREATED DOCUMENT DYSFUNCTION.
IT IS TIME TO FIX IT.

Brown University •
University of Washington