Efe Akengin

About

Venture-backed founder shipping real-time agentic systems and multimodal foundation models. Co-founded bitHuman, where we built world’s first 10ms CPU voice to avatar SDK, on-edge multimodal enterprise agents with realistic avatars, ASR/STT/LLM/TTS & RAG, and prompt to visual agent platform that generates human/animal/stylized avatars in minutes, powering interactive agents for retail, entertainment, and experiential marketing across the US/EU/SG. Previously led AI products to $100M+ enterprise value and scaled initiatives to millions of users. I also co-founded global initiatives in AI, education and impact investing (reaching 30+ countries, $25M+ funding) and advised exec teams on becoming AI-native. Interests / Strengths: Enterprise AI strategy, adoption and best practices; leading and productionizing AI research; AI-driven user interfaces and experiences; multimodal, on-edge & real-time agents with avatars; evals & safety; retrieval & memory; AI-native products at scale (SLAs, guardrails, cost/perf trade-offs); low-latency inference & optimization (quantization, KV-cache, CUDA alternatives); generative UI & agentic UX; enterprise adoption & GTM for AI platforms; foundation mode

Experience

Education