Ilya Gelfenbeyn, head of Google Assistant Investments, a corporate venturing unit for US-listed internet technology provider Alphabet focused on voice-activated assistants, has left to set up venture capital firm The.AI Ventures.
Gelfenbeyn had set up Google Assistant Investments in September 2017, a year after joining the company following its acquisition of Dialogflow, a corporate venture-backed provider of conversational user experience software.
The move follows the departure of Google Assistant corporate development lead Brock Huber to StockX in September 2019.
Google Assistant’s deals have included Aiva Health, AskPorter, Paper, StatMuse, Claimbot, Edwin, Botsociety, GoMoment, Pulse Labs and Epytom.
