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Tasso Argyros

Builder of disruptive companies | Stanford PhD defector | ML/AI & data addict

New York, New York

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

Work Experience

2025

  • SVP, Head of Strategy

    2025

    Driving product strategy, positioning, and strategic partnerships for Uniphore's GenAI & Data product portfolio.

2015

  • Founder & CEO

    2015

    [Merged with Uniphore in late 2024 resulting in a multi-billion dollar joint entity.] Pioneered the Customer Data Platform (CDP) category, a new market in the intersection of Data Infrastructure and Customer Experience software. Prior to its acquisition, ActionIQ was recognized as the overall market leader, including ranking as the #1 CDP vendor in Forrester’s inaugural CDP market report. ActionIQ earned the business of dozens of Fortune 500 customers such as Atlassian, Bloomberg, Dell, Hertz, HP, Morgan Stanley, News Corp, Verizon and many others.

  • Founding Advisor

    2023

    Bespoke Labs is developing tools and algorithms for efficient post-training of LLMs. Founded by Berkeley AI Professor Alex Dimakis and Google Brain engineer Mahesh Sathiamoorthy.

  • Founding Advisor & Board Director

    2018

    Bayesian Health is a Johns Hopkins spinoff, founded by Prof. Suchi Saria, developing the next generation of AI diagnostics for inpatient (in-hospital) care.

  • Founding Advisor & Board Director

    2015

    Velos Rotors produces the leading mid-size electric UAV drone for mission-critical industrial, public safety and defense applications.

2015

  • Member of the Board of Directors

    2015

    Volunteer position helping to strengthen ties between government and tech companies in NYC and the tri-state area.

2017 - 2022

  • Board Director

    2017 - 2022

    Workspan is revolutionizing the way the technology ecosystem is collaborating. Members of the Workspan Ecosystem Cloud include Google, Microsoft, SAP, Accenture and others.

2011 - 2014

  • Co-President

    2011 - 2014

    Co-President of Teradata's Big Data products division. Directly managed product, marketing, demand generation & strategy for Teradata's Aster, Hadoop and 1XXX product lines. Helped align Aster's product roadmap, marketing & sales in Teradata's Americas, EMEA and ROW regions. Drove ~300% YoY revenue growth for the division in FY2013 (this information was publicly disclosed in Teradata's quarterly earnings call.)

  • Founder & CTO

    2006 - 2011

    Dropped out of Stanford CS PhD to pioneer a novel shared-nothing (MPP) distributed database architecture. Our massive-scale database was successfully deployed by some the largest banks, telcos and other enterprises across the world to help solve their biggest data challenges. Acquired by Teradata in 2011 for approximately $300M.